Community Media

I'm cross posting this because until I came across the PEG space Birds of a Feather session at DrupalCon I had no idea that there were two Drupal groupsworking on the resource and scheduling problems faced by community broadcasts. The other group had camouflaged themselves by using the insider name of PEG instead of something I'd have recognized like Public Access TV. Hopefully this can serve as the catalyst to get the two groups cross pollenating.

Now, I don't mean for this to sound like a plug for a product (cause it's not), I've been developing Drupal modules to help support the development of our e-learning courses at Penn State for the last year now. As things have progressed, our department has begun to pursue making these modules open source. I've been sitting on this stuff for a year now patiently waiting for the right time to start announcing the projects we've been working on and I think many (if not all of them) would be of interest to DrupalEd users.

Hey everyone, today is my last day at MNN. I'm moving on to do Drupal development at Achieve Internet. Anyway, I'm leaving the MNN side of things in the capable hands of Damien Barrett and Forest Mars. They can be reached vi it@mnn.org. They should be joining the group very soon.

I wish you all the best, and I'll check in from time to time to see how things are going.

-Andy

MNN and Openflows are beginning the work on the scheduling module. It is a fairly large undertaking. I'd also love to get the rest of the community involved with this project, and this is as good a place to start as any.

The scheduling module encompasses both program scheduling as well as playback issues. I think it's critical to get input at this stage because everyone's requirements will be different. It's important that we put enough thought and flexibility into the system to accommodate the majority of needs.

That being said, here's what we need:

Just a quick note about the various projects that I've been working on. While I was still in the U.S I had a chance to make a stable release for the PDF-IDCard module. The module takes a jpeg or png file and overlays text on top of it. Eric and the guys at OpenFlows had done a similar custom job (which served as the base and inspiration for this module) and I took their work and made a Drupal module out of it. I attempted to make it "easier" to create this badges on a large scale.

Here's a link to the pegspace site (not sure if everyone knows this site) http://www.pegspace.org/node/185

this node details some of the modules in use by other PEG facilities.

OpenFlows has updated and made the latest code available. See the link below on mjgoins' post.

We've all been talking about this for a while and we're not totally done but there has been some interest expressed in getting access to our work in progress.

Openflows Community Technology Lab and Manhattan Neighborhood Network have decided to give the pegspace and drupal community an alpha release of the MNN reservation module which will be one of the building blocks of the larger PEGspace project.