Report on the Community Media Drupal Summit
In Austin, Texas, on March 8 and 9, 2012, Executive Directors and staff from Access Humboldt, Amherst Media, channelAustin, Easton Community Access Television, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Philadelphia Community Access Media, Regional Educational Technology Network, and St.
Access Multisite from another computer other them localhost
Hello drupal buddies, i have a simple question that i couldn't find the answer (maybe cause i cannot find the right keywords for search). I'm trying my first multisite installation of drupal, i created a folder tmp.mysite for my site in drupal_root/sites, and the installation completed without erros. Now on localhost i can access both the root site (with a url like http://localhost:port/drupal_root )
Read moreHow are you using Facil?
channelAustin Facil Use
At channelAustin we primarily use Facil for the following:
• Producer data
• Project data
• Class schedule data
• Producer training certification data
• Equipment reservations
• Equipment inventory
• Financial transaction data
• Programming data
Facil has a programming interface with Synergy
For Facil: http://www.beckersoftware.com/facil/
Read moreWhat are the future goals of the Drupal Association?
Hi All, as of suggestion of @heather I republish here my Issue on http://drupal.org/node/336185
as to gain some feedback that might help my understanding of the goals and rules that
exist in written or not written form for the Drupal.org Community.
One Month til the OM Beta group is selected.
In just over a month, the 6 organizations who will participate in the first round of the Open Media Beta process will be selected, cooperating with Denver Open Media to implement and develop the set of Drupal Modules that will help automate workflows, engage users in more control of the station, increase your online presence, and take the next step in cooperating as a true network of locally-focused, user-driven community media centers.
Read moreGood Austin Meeting
Tonight's Austin Drupal meeting was the first I attended. And I enjoyed it. I'm especially glad to see follow-up meetings set for CiviCRM, Basic Drupal Installation, and Theming -- for this June.
As I said at the meeting, around the country there is interest on the part of public access and community media in Drupal.
Here is a website where some of this development is described:
www.pegspace.org
On this site, it mentions Manhattan Neighbohood Networks' work with CiviCRM.
Read moreHow to set up proper private file access
ACM Conference in July
There is a conference coming to Boston in July (6-8) for public, educational and government access television that will have some workshops that may be of interest to this Boston Drupal community. Mostly it covers public access industry, technology and administration, but a few specifically will talk about video and multimedia content distribution across the web. I am not sure what the conference costs but you might want to check it out. I'll link them here:
Community Media Culture: Trends and Emerging Practices in Community
http://acmboston.org/node/64
Pimp My Site: Rebuilding your cutting edge media web site
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