I'll be in Barcelona next week for Drupalcon and I've got a few missions.
I've got 2 websites I want to look at converting to Drupal:
Kendra Initiative is a non-profit organisation that wants to see a more open and level content distribution system/marktetplace. We need quotes for building it in Drupal. We've got a skeleton project plan here:
http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?KendraWebsiteUpdate
Any pointers, comments and questions would be useful now so that I could have answers for next week when we can meet in the flesh and discuss more.
A well used website for organised hitching but needs a face lift.
Other issues that I'm interested in discussing:
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Add Display Name field(s) to core in addition to Username
http://drupal.org/node/102679 -
Automated translation of node content via online translator
http://drupal.org/node/108004 -
Auto registration workflow
http://drupal.org/node/100359 -
Need more structure and funding model
http://groups.drupal.org/node/3704#comment-10822 -
Syncing calendars and cards with Drupal database. Not looked into this yet at all.
BTW I live down in the SW UK on Dartmoor and rarely make it to London. Next London stop is Kendra party on October 12th:
http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?KendraParty20071012
Skype me on "dahacouk". Look forward to hooking up.
Cheers Daniel
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Hi
I'm a) going to be in Barca b) fairly experienced in theming c) free for work right now and d) an experienced hitcher
If you want any more boxes ticked, let me know! ;p
I'll have a look at these and drop you a line shortly, Dan.
Web Development in Nottingham, UK by Kineta Systems / Follow me on Twitter! @NikLP
I'll be in Barcelona next
I'll be in Barcelona next week, if you want any help.
I've converted a few websites over to drupal in the last few years:
I've converted a site I wrote that used phpBB as its' backend into drupal; and I've converted a bespoke ColdFusion+ms sql+php+mysql site into drupal (obviously this was a nightmare as it was spread across 2 different servers and platforms (windows and Solaris).
I'm not bad at theming, but I'm far better at coding/hacking.
Just looking thru' your wiki; have you got a server set up or are you looking for a host?
Hopefully your existing site uses the pretty standard use of md5 hashes for passwords?
You may need the profile module for any additional fields, so probably need an import users module.
Groups: sounds like you'll need og, an example would be this site!
I wouldn't dream of hacking core as it only causes more problems later on, modules are so much better!
(just my opinions)
drupal identity: I think someone might be doing a module to take care of this, but something I have done before is to hack it using the templating system; so you see some profile fields instead of the username (tho' I'm still working out how to do it on the admin side!)
I used i18n under 4.7 to have english and welsh pages; it wasn't brilliant, but it seemed to work surprisingly well
Forums: It all depends on your needs/requirements for what a forum should be, or what its' main function is - if your community revolves around the forum, then obviously you'll need some proper forum integration like the various interfaces to outside forum software or uieforum; but if it's just a place for discussion, then I'd have a go with drupal's builtin functions first. The good thing about keeping it drupal is that there's a module that can change the content type (can't remember its' name at the minute) - so if there's a forum post that's worthy of promoting to some other area of the site like a handbook or somesuch, it's pretty easy to do without having to create a new piece of content!
Books are a good thing to use, and there's a module called Book expand that adds some extra auth functionality; not to mention various modules for exporting/saving book content in other formats (pdf, opml, and stuff).
Give me a shout if you want to meet up next week, or you want to chat some more (I'm in Sheffield, and going to Barcelona on Tuesday morning - far too early in the day for a developer!)
Cheers