groups

To help group organizers meet eachother and share their knowledge, tips & ticks for organizing and motivating drupal groups i've launched a new drupal irc channel #drupal-groups.

I encourage everyone to join this channel to discuss how to improve user participation in drupal groups and other helpful information.

I strongly encourage group members to join in on the discussion because group organizers are doing this for YOU. Having your feedback on various issues will help us greatly improve different aspects of the group that matter to you most.

SEE YOU THERE!

Hello there!
If you want to give a user total control over a site (his/her site, area, or whatever you want to call it), what should be better? Creating a group for each user, as in drupal Groups, or creating a multisite installation?

When I say "total control" I mean everything: Blogs, polls, newsletters, have a fan´s group (not buudies, I mean actual users that are created just to enter his/her personal site).

Would multiple sites installations become a huge monster, that no server could manage?

What are your thoughts?

Rosamunda

I am suggesting for a module which allows for individuals/group admin with certain roles to create/run a store and accept payments through user/group specific payment gateways.

Example of uses:

1. An NGO might start a group on a social site, and want to sell merchandise to raise funds, they simply create a group store.
2. a Musician might want to sell his mp3 files on the social site. He can simply purchase a role, for a one-off charge and setup an online store for his music, pictures or event tickets.

I think a good way to share information/links may be to use a particular tag in delicious, technorati, tags on this site, etc. So basically maybe just establish a convention that everyone tags their stuff to share.

Maybe something like:
a2drupal

Greetings fellow Michigan Drupal users. I have a question. Let it be noted that I have only been using Drupal for about 2 months, so please forgive my newbisms & lack of knowledge...believe me, I'm trying, and I'm excited to be doing so.

The Atlanta Drupal Users Group is heating up! It looks like there will be a sizable crowd in attendance at our first official meeting. The skill sets run the gamut from new users, graphic designers, drupal site publishers, to PHP programmers, so it should lead to a lively and dynamic meeting.

If you plan on attending (or if you can't) please post a comment on this thread so we'll know what to expect.

The meeting is Thursday Feb 22, 2007, from 7:30pm til 9pm, at 5 Seasons North.

There has been some recent work analyzing the growth on drupal.org, and I think we should do something similar for groups.drupal.org.

I would be interested in charts/histograms showing the distribution of:

1. Groups by number of subscribers
2. Groups by posts/week in the past three months
3. Users by number of subscriptions (without identifying information)
4. Users by number of posts (without identifying information)
5. Users by number of posts (without identifying information)
6. Total posts over time
7. Total posts per week over time
8. Total groups over time
9. New groups per week over time
10. Median subscriptions per user over time

Did I forget anything or should some of these be removed/tweaked? I am willing to generate the charts if someone can run the queries, and I can figure out the exact sql queries if needed.

Adrian provides a potential solution for me to easily set up and host groups.mysite.com with his MultiDomain, UserDomains, and OGDomains modules. I believe this can help in the set up of community and social networking sites.

Here's a link to some basic info in which he describes the MultiDomain module and his plans for two closely-related follow-on modules.

I'm looking forward to testing the above modules. Thanks Adrian!!!

Read on for specific info.

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Hi all,

I want to set up group subscriptions at subdomain groups.mysite.com while allowing the main part of my web site to offer basic info about my organization at mysite.com. A perfect example is groups.drupal.org and drupal.org.

So, I visited groups.drupal.org's About this site page and, under "Code", read that the groups.drupal.org site "runs a Drupal 4.7".

1. Does this mean that groups.drupal.org has a separate Drupal 4.7 installation from drupal.org? In other words, do I need two (2) uploads of Drupal 4.7 to my web server, that is, one 4.7 installation for OG running at subdomain groups.mysite.com and another 4.7 installation for the main site mysite.com?