Call for install profile ideas

What needs to be an install profile?
Please comment with your ideas!

Profile Ideas

Small Business

levavie: I think that there is a place for a small business installation profile. That's why I've registered the DrupalBiz.com/org domains (similar to the current drupalEdu.org installation profile).

What should be included in such an installation profile?

My preliminary ideas (add yours):
1. Contact form with Light CRM (Workflow / actions based).
2. Easy way to migrate data from existing non-drupal sites.
3. Several high usability businesslike themes to choose from.
4. Some standard site pages, in a ready-made layout, ready to be edited: products, solutions, jobs, recommended links. About us / contact us page. News/blog page.
5. A standard products CCK.
6. Inline AJAX content editing support.

Drupal Digg profile

levavie: Someone [ref1] has just release a drupal digg clone. Another person [ref2] has just released a drupal digg site recipe. Let's make it an installation profile!
(ref1: http://drupal.org/node/166211, http://drupaligg.programmingbulls.com )
(ref2: ventureskills1, ventureskills2)

Bands and musicians

Senpai sez: The thing I use most, and something that Gusaus and I have talked about at length, is the need for a band to have a Drupal install that provides them with a gigCalendar for posting and editing their own shows, a stories-from-the-road (like a blog, but with one or two extra CCK fields already present), a content type for their current album with the ability to show some artwork and list tracks that play streaming mp3/mp4, and a content type for basic press releases about the band itself. If we could offer bands that ability, there'd be 16,000 more Drupal sites by tomorrow night.

• gigCalendar functionality should use event.module + calendar.module to allow the creation of new shows, but a new function would have to be written for Event so that cities with repeat shows could simply be chosen from a list. That'd be a wishful thinking sort of thing, but for now, Event + Calendar would work. They'd just have to enter all their gig info every time.
• Stories-from-the-road needs to be a CCK content type with imagefield.module for adding a photo or three, date.module for allowing the band member to set the date of the posting (since most of them never have the chance to add a story node the same day as it happened), and perhaps the addition of autonodetitle.module to set the title of all stories-from-the-road nodes as a City_name + Date_it_happened kinda thing.
• Current-album content type needs to be sort of like a CCK node and sorta like a couple of custom taxonomy lists. Here's my idea here. Bands need to post a page about their current release, it's description, it's price, some artwork, and maybe even a PayPal buy it now button or something. But they'll run into a MAJOR wall next year if the site isn't already setup to earmark that album with a released-on year, a list of track names that relate to the album in question, and some way of attaching streaming music to those track names which relate to the album. It's almost like the install profile needs to be able to query the new site's owner to create a custom taxonomy list just for the current album.
• Press-release content type should be something CCK-ish with a Title, Body, For Release On date, external link to another site for the full story, and a free tagging taxo field. I envision date.module. link.module, and possibly

Blogs and Bloggers

Umm, somebody needs to write something here.

User Discussion Forums

DrupalBB distribution is in early stage, but functional and tested. You can see it working or download from www.esdrupal.org. This is the support site in spanish, but the next week we release the support site in english (drupalbb.org)

Media centric profiles

Would include a variety of profiles from Newspapers, Alt-Weeklies, Magazines, Hyperlocal Community sites, to Radio and TV portals. There are some excellent resources/conversations and foundations being laid....

• Media sites using drupal
• Modules that might be useful for Newspapers
• Media centric learning resources

School PTO & Alumni Sites

A template that individual school PTO organizations in a school system could use for communication with and between families. With a little creativity, this same profile could be carried on to communicate with and between school alumni. Primary functionality/modules would include:

• Organic groups - organized around grades (graduating classes), clubs, sports and other interests
• Event/Calendar
• Discussion Forums
• etc

News reader

A news reader, based on one of the aggregation modules, pimped up with some extras like community tags, yahoo terms and url profiling.

External Links to other profile sites

• The Pepperalley Productions site has a page that lists a lot of various profiles-in-progress, and can be found at http://wiki.pepperalleyproductions.com/Install_profiles_and_distributions
• http://support.bryght.com/install-profiles/basic

Steps to creating a finished profile

1. Decide the purpose, focus, target audience for each profile.
2. Outline some general site configuration settings (permissions, roles).
3. List all necessary modules for inclusion, along with any needed configurations for each.
4. Choose a good theme!
5. Create the installation profile. Read this HowTo: