Get your feature requests in for 2006.planet-soc.com!

Posted by webchick on May 20, 2006 at 2:25am

Robert's graciously given me permission to create a community site for the SoC 2006 participants like he did last year with http://www.planet-soc.com/

Here is a listing of what I'm putting together here (hoping to get it uploaded and ready tomorrow), anyone who can think of other nice features, feel free:

Core stuff
- blog
- forum

Profile fields
- First name
- Last name
- Gender
- School
- Mentoring organization (required)
- Student or Mentor? (required)

Location module
Enable:
- City
- Province
- Country
- Long/Lat

Organic groups
- 1 invite-only OG per mentoring organization.

Location module
- Enable user locations upon registration

GMap module
- Plot students to mentors like @ http://code.google.com/soc-map.html

CCK
I'm thinking of adding a content type for "proposal" so that students can log their proposals and we can bring them up easily.

Any other thoughts/ideas? :)

Comments

Also, any ideas on how to handle restricted membership?

Posted by webchick on May 20, 2006 at 2:29am

The site should only be open to mentors and successful applicants. Any suggestions on how to "police" this?

Yeah. Don't worry much about it.

Posted by robertdouglass on May 20, 2006 at 7:34am

If we get it online and really push to get one mentor per org signed up, then we can make group registration moderated instead of invite only and save ourselves the role of police. We won't get all orgs signed up before students come, however, so we need to say that if a student wants to use the site, they've got to ask their mentor to sign up too.

Good

Posted by kbahey on May 20, 2006 at 2:33am

Looks good.

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Aggregator(2)?

Posted by robertdouglass on May 20, 2006 at 7:36am

Last year we let students enter the URL of their blog or org's blog for the aggregator.

Help! :)

Posted by webchick on May 21, 2006 at 10:25pm

So the basic site is up: http://2006.planet-soc.com/ - please go ahead and sign up and I'll get you added to the Drupal group.

However, I'm having a few problems and would really appreciate anyone's assistance in solving the following:

The Gmap module appears not to like me at all. ;) According to the README I should disable user locations and check the "collect user locations with gmap" box in location module settings and then Gmap should let people use a map, but that's not working for me. If I enable user locations in location module, then the map shows up but there's no interface to select a point. And even when entering location information thru location module via the user profile, the map shows no points. Anyone who has experience with this module and could help me sort it out, I'd really appreciate it!
Need a solution for off-site blogs. Ideally, this is what I'd like to happen:
a) User gets field in their profile for like "external blog URL"
b) Some module (aggregator? aggregator2?) goes off and grabs all of that person's posts when the cron job runs and makes them into nodes
c) When the nodes are imported, they get affiliated with whatever group the student/mentor is a member of.

Anyone have any freaking clue how I could do this? :(
Drama abounds: watchdog not logging, path aliases not saving, etc.: Something very strange is going on... I'm pulling a db dump to take a look later tonight but if anyone could spare a few minutes to help me sort it, I'd really appreciate it.

Drupal IDs?

Posted by njivy on May 21, 2006 at 10:48pm

Can we login using Drupal IDs?

Drupal module is enabled...

Posted by webchick on May 22, 2006 at 12:24am

And I enabled all the options under the settings. So hopefully you can now. :)

I was able to login yesterday, but not today

Posted by arava_phani on May 23, 2006 at 3:50pm

Any specific reason?

We're currently doing some

Posted by bonobo on May 21, 2006 at 11:04pm

We're currently doing some development with agg2 to allow for more granular import -- it will be done by mid-June, which will be just in time? too late? for this?

Anyways -- let me know if you're interested.

FunnyMonkey

That could work...

Posted by webchick on May 22, 2006 at 12:28am

I need some kind of solution for the short-term, though (ideally by Tuesday) so that we don't end up with what we had last year which was 150 different people springing up little sites to do this and that around SoC. I'd like PlanetSoC to be kind of a "one-stop shop."

Part of the issue here is that I've never played with aggregator and don't really understand what it does. :P Maybe I should spend a couple hours doing that...

Still need help w/ aggregator...

Posted by webchick on May 22, 2006 at 5:32am

... but I fixed #1 and #3 so far has not totally crippled anything (ugh?) so I'm leaving it be atm. Makes me nervous that watchdog completely crapped out though... will investigate more tomorrow.

which version r u running

Posted by benc on May 24, 2006 at 2:06am

Hi Angie,

Which version of Drupal are you running for planet soc?

Thanks,

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Drupal 4.7...

Posted by webchick on May 24, 2006 at 4:06am

Hi, benc! It's Drupal 4.7.

aggregator

Posted by benc on May 24, 2006 at 9:16am

Angie,

I'd go with Robert's suggestion to give students the permission to enter their blog URLs into the aggregator.

Re: auto-classifying their blogs into planet soc: what we can do here is put Categories based on the projects or teams.

CAVEAT on aggregator2 and Drupal 4.7: I played around with aggregator2 and i'm still experiencing problems with it. aggregator works fine though.