NITF Views module needs you!

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Hi all,

I have a Drupal company called CMS Professionals (http://www.cmspros.co.uk) and we do a deal of Drupal work with a number of newspapers and newspaper-related activities. We're nearly finished a job for a motoring journalism company who have 3rd parties aggregate centrally created newspaper content over web services (we use Views + Services + OG modules to control access to streams of data set up on a publication-by-publication basis). Anyway, I digress. One of the requirements was the content to be aggregated be in the NITF format. We created a module called NITF Views which outputs an Atom feed wrapping nodes presented as NITF documents. Take a look:
http://drupal.org/project/nitf_views

It's in a dev state, because though we got it to a working state for our client (we launch 8th Feb 2010 but testing is going great) it still has code in it that is quite specific to our client. We had to do this because of time pressures, and the same time pressures mean we won't be able (any time soon, that is) come back and make these client-specific aspects generic settings so anyone can use the module via the Drupal UI.

That's where you could maybe come in. If you're a developer who works in a newspaper or for a newspaper client, you're looking for a way to securely export content in an industry standard format, SECURELY (or otherwise) then you might be a suitable maintainer and you might benefit well from our work to date. We want to maintain this module, but being realistic (look at my drupal.org projects) we just can't justify the time right now. All we want to do is see a 6.x-1.0 release of this module before Drupal 7 is launched! ;-)

If you're interested, ping me. Thanks!

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