Posted by ezra-g on April 26, 2010 at 5:24pm
I've started a thread about the possibility of having a DrupalCamp install profile hosted on Drupal.org infrastructure. This would make it easy for regional groups to spin up a new, feature-rich site for DrupalCamps. It would be great if group organizers who are interested in such a service could express their interest *on the infrastructure issue* at http://drupal.org/node/782162.
Thanks!
Ezra
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Excellent Idea!
Good call Ezra.
I have an install profile that we used for Chicago DrupalCamp last December. It is a modification of the one that Los Angeles used a few months prior to that.
With a few tweaks it could be made into an excellent install profile.
I will visit the post you mentioned and chime in.
- Doug Vann
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install profile or "db and code"
Is it an install profile or just a db and code?
There is renewed work on http://drupal.org/project/cod and http://drupal.org/project/cod_support install profiles to provide these features.
Edit: gah, hit send too soon.
If you could share your install profile (mail it to me/ezra? post it in the cod_support issue queue?) that would help us determine some best practices.
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DrupalCampLA 2010
Hey at Drupalcon last week, I met with the guys from This by Them who volunteered to once again help with the DrupalCampLA camp site. Blake Luccessi, of This by Them, and I were the main architects for the DrupalCampLA site. Although I defined the requirements and many of the modules used, This by Them, did the design and the bulk of the buildout.
DrupalCampLA 2010 just locked down venue and dates of Aug 7 & 8. This year we were hoping to redo the site, hopefully in Drupal 7, and to build a distribution of it, and likely this time I'll include at least a generic theme others could build on.
I'd be open to any volunteers interested in helping. We plan to share, but also understand many of the issues in only releasing a scrubbed db.
I'd be interested in in talking about differences in requirements. It may lead to either streamlining requirements or perhaps creating alternate distributions to meet various needs. The main goal we had with DrupalCampLA was to emulate a SMALL venue feel by allowing things to happen "the day of" - similar to standing around a whiteboard at an unconference and sticking up a post-it. The other aspect dealt with contstraints & scheduling - making sure sessions were scheduled in rooms that would fit the number of people interested. (The HUGE advantage a computer has over a whiteboard in terms of real-time data).
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Oooops just the code and a db
Thought I had a profile, but I just checked and all that was sent to me way back in January was code and a db. But you're still welcome to it.
This is the LA/This_by_them effort PLUS a tremendous amount of additions by Palantir.
If you like, I'll wrap it up in a tar and post it to the queque. Let me know.
- DV
we
we (seattle/portland/vancouver people) have a site built off that same drupalcampLA site that we used for our regional con last year http://pnwdrupalsummit.org - myself and a couple of my coworkers have put a bunch of extra work into it prepping it for this year, to make it accommodate multiple years of a repeating event.
changes made so far:
i don't know how much else we're going to do with it, and the core to content profile migration was a bit finnicky. also, we have twitter module enabled (i'm not certain if that came with the original version).
we should be done the bulk of the new development (prior to doing this year's retheme) in the next few weeks. i don't know if the version we have would be useful to anyone, but if so let me know and i can see if any PNW folks have time to sanitize the db and share it.
Drupal Camp web site Install Profiles
It sounds like the people replying so far are all DrupalCampLA distro adopters. Earlier this year at SAND Camp (San Diego Drupal camp) we had a large BoF discussion about the state of the distro and what SD did on top of our distro and how we can grow the project. The ideas out of that meeting were:
Let me follow up with the "Drupal Commerce" team as there was expressed interest in hosting Drupal Camp sites from this distro.
Chris Charlton, Author & Drupal Community Leader, Enterprise Level Consultant
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Hi there, I have been
Hi there, I have been thinking about DrupalCamp installation profile for a while. When we were organising DrupalCamp in Prague, I was looking at This by Them camp distro, however after installation it seemed too complex and it came without default theme and no docs (as far as I remember). So we created our own, simplified drupal installation as seen on http://drupalcamp.cz - it was done in a rush so some bits weren't polished enough. Then guys from belgium asked for a copy and created http://drupalcamp.be - I think default theme - such this one with a skyline - works well - as not everyone is designer and they can easily adopt it.
This installation is being used also for: http://drupalcamp.sk http://2010.drupalcamp.dk http://belgium.drupalvolcon.com and what I particulary like about this is how it evolved, each team brought some new things into it - clean up, ideas, etc...
Conclusion: default universal theme should be part of the installation profile ;)