In response to Aaron's wireframe for an Open Guilds website, I thought I'd post a couple of screenshots of a site I just put together for a friend who asked me to put together an intranet where he could kick around some business ideas with a few other people. My site a very lightly modified version of Open Atrium, with the main change being that I used the stringoverrides module to rename OA "groups" as "businesses" and "books" as "plans." I wonder if a structure along these lines might be a good fit for a guild website. Individual guild members could use the site as a place to set up private and/or public groups for either discussions of specific business proposals or for more general discussion of topics that interest all guild members, such as bylaws.
Just a thought.
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Open Guild - Open Atrium - Feature Server ?
good idea!
was thinking we could perhaps prototype a Open Guild Feature that would work within the OpenAtrium features/modules/user story ecosystem ?
I'm not completely sold on OpenAtrium, its kind of clunky in a lot of ways, but it does have a lot of features (and Features) that at least give a crude mechanism for doing stuff
I imagine OpenAtrium is kind of deliberately stiff and quite formal, the features (and Features) and kind of like crystallizations of smoother workflows that get implemented by Devseed and other OpenAtrium as platform providers
lets dive in a set-up a OpenAtrium / OpenGuild website, and a Feature Server ?
why not ?
I think Open Atrium is less
I think Open Atrium is less user-friendly than I would like, in part because it inherits some clunkiness from the Drupal modules that went into its creation. The book module, for example, has never been one of my favorites. However, it is at least a fairly stable platform for development of a collaboration website, and with a bit of elbow grease hopefully we can improve it.
Sheldon Rampton
Senior web developer, New York State Senate
http://www.nysenate.gov
http://drupal.org/user/13085
Book module
spot-on, the documentation system is really the CLUNK...
I know Trac is out of favor and OA was built as a response to Trac.. but Trac has a really nice markup that cross-links Tasks, Wiki etc...
if we made an Open Guild Feature (or a Feature Set) within OpenAtrium is might give us a head start.. theoretically the OpenGuild Feature could work anywhere... (fingers crossed)
Ideally, I'd like to build it
Ideally, I'd like to build it in D7. Not sure of OA's timeline for that.
However, OA is impressive for the quick building of a groups-structured site, certainly. I certainly wouldn't discount it at this point.
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, available now!)
AaronWinborn.com
Advomatic
On second thought, maybe it
On second thought, maybe it would be best to build it in OA, which as noted is optimized to groups. We can build out a different panel for the front page and retheme as necessary.
Thanks, Sheldon!
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, available now!)
AaronWinborn.com
Advomatic
or maybe should use acquia's drupal commons?
http://acquia.com/products-services/drupal-commons and http://commons.acquia.com/
Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (my book, available now!)
AaronWinborn.com
Advomatic
I have dwelled really indepth
I have dwelled really indepth into OA and much of it actually requires a lot of customization using sub-themes for theming and Features for extensibility. So we might be considering a total overhaul of OA if we decide to make use of it on Open Guild. Like integrating Panels in OA for custom layouts ....
Or perhaps we could run OA and Drupal Commons side by side to see which we workout best.
t: @charyorde
We use both
We're using both Open Atrium (
http://drupalkata.com/) and Drupal Commons (http://drupalopenlearning.org/) for these complimentary programs/initiatives. I think the latter would give you out of the box groups functionality and is easier to customize theme, panels, etc. Come to think of it, this newly released profile may be another good option - http://drupal.org/node/923862
All of these use features/context/spaces, which should provide many additional ways to customize and swap features.
Gus Austin