basic.profile

After the great work done via the D5 Drupal ED profile. I was keen to find out if others would be interested in creating a D6 (and/or D7) schools profile from scratch using the current best practice.

What I would be interested in working on is the idea of agreeing a best practice starting point for all schools and seeing how far you can take it before everyone wants to 'branch'.

For example we might all agree that:
Install fresh drupal 6
install Date and calendar
create roles
Governors
Teachers
Students
Parents
Hope fully everyone is still onboard

Hope everyone is enjoying 6th birthday/5.0 release day. I've been tinkering with install profiles, and have a working one in our public SVN. See https://svn.bryght.com/dev/browser/bryghtbase/DRUPAL-5/trunk/profiles/basic

If you've got control over your server space, you can actually check out the entire trunk (replace "browser" with "svn" to get the checkout URL -- e.g. https://svn.bryght.com/dev/svn/bryghtbase/DRUPAL-5/trunk/) and get all the supporting modules and a DRUPAL-5-0 install.