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Hello all,

We are happy to announce the release of VoIP Drupal Beta 5!

The main goal of this release is to extend VoIP Drupal's SMS capabilities by
a) integrating VoIP Drupal with Drupal's SMS Framework and, with that, compensate for the lack SMS support provided by major VoIP services (such as Tropo or Twilio) outside of the North American market;
b) providing ways for users to carry conversations over SMS (or any other text-based network such as IM, email, Twitter, etc.);
c) enabling the creation of calls that combine text and voice channels in some very interesting ways.

Inspired by public demand, we are organizing the 1st ever VoIP Drupal webinar on Thursday, May 12th @ 1pm EST!

As part of this webinar, you will learn about VoIP Drupal, a new framework that makes it easy to build websites that literally pick-up the phone, make calls, record messages, broadcast audio, and more.

Effective onboarding is an important key to helping new users to a website get integrated. A great deal of time and money is spent by major social networking sites to optimize their onboarding process.

I'm proposing that we build something similar for Drupal. The module would provide a number of configurable forms common to onboarding flows and handle pulling new users through the flow.

A short list of forms I'm planning on adding include:
* Fill out essential info for their profile
* Upload a picture
* Join groups
* Follow people

The "Community" group keeps getting posts that are Drupal community related but really nothing to do with building community sites. So I started out thinking a name change was in order. But there's also the fact that we have a group for Social Networking Sites. While these groups aren't identical, there is quite a bit of overlap. So I was thinking they could be merged into a new group. Some possible names: "Building community sites" or just "Building communities".

First, it doesn't look like too many people have been using the community group so perhaps we don't even need a subgroup, at least, for the time being.

Can we distinguish between a 'social networking site' and a 'local community site'? A community site shouldn't necessarily be for just social networking. Drupal doesn't have the edge on Ning, Facebook, and MeetUp.

One of the many genres of website is the business directory. This seemed to become very popular during the early and mid 2000's with most following the pattern of having many listings with paid listings that gravitated to the top of lists with more information on them.

There are a few problems with this approach. First, there are many out-of-the-box solutions and Joomla has a handful of plug and play modules. Also, when looking for a business why not just go ahead and use Google?

UPDATE

The book has been updated to the latest modules and is also available as a paperback book on Amazon. The ebook has also been updated and is still available here.

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I thought you might be interested in the new ebook that has been published:

Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide.
With notes for Drupal 5
Now everyone can set up a community.

ISBN 978-2-8399-0490-2

Hi there!

I´ve been around this group for a while, and there have been a lot of new "drupal-for-2.0-community" stuff lately.
Anyway, there´s this thing that´s bothering me since I´ve started to get my hands dirty with Drupal, and I really need to hear what you think about:
Drupal core profiles: They are not able to be managed as nodes (duh!), and you always need some contrib module to do that for you. Can we get a usable out of the box community site?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to host a meeting between a dozen or so members of my site next week.

At it's most basic, we want to be able to have an irc/skype type discussion, with everyone being able to make text-based contributions.

It seems like there's no stable way to do this through Drupal, with Chatroom being the most likely candidate but too unstable for important meetings (is it unfair of me to say that?). I'm looking into integrating flashchat but haven't gone down that route yet.