groups.drupal.org gives UI power to group admins with Pages
groups.drupal.org now features Pages, a major new feature added this week. Group admins now have much more control over the presentation of their group’s content. You may see this feature in action by clicking on the tabs in the redesigned Drupal Dojo group, or Los Angeles or SoC 2008. To learn how this customization was achieved, watch this screencast (blip.tv) by Josh Koenig.
Group admins may add as many custom Pages as they desire to their group. The admin may choose her own page layout, and may place whatever content she wishes into each region of the page. If this sounds like Panels module to you, then pat yourself on the back. This feature is a happy integration between Organic Groups module and the Panels module.
Group admins are encouraged to build out their groups using Pages (see screencast), and report bugs or feature requests in the groups.drupal.org group.
Many thanks to Earl Miles for Panels and Views, and to Josh Koenig for the screencast, and to the Post Carbon Institute for funding og_panels module.
Abstracted Web Services API for Drupal 7
This is the beginnings of a design specification proposal for an abstracted API for implementing web services within Drupal 7. This allows Drupal to act as both a server and client for web services in any protocol medium (XML-RPC, RDF, RSS, JSON, etc). It is the combined efforts from a number of people at Druplicon including Marc Ingram, Scott Nelson, Nedjo Rogers, Dmitri Gaskin, etc.
Services API
CCK Integration for Panels
I have just posted a patch which allows people to add a single field into a pane for much greater control over content layout.
See http://drupal.org/node/97375 for the patch to CCK
Case study: running a small college site with drupal
Hi folks,
I'm following up on promises I made during the Birds of a Feather sessions at Drupalcon Boston to post a case study of how we're using Drupal at Amherst College. We've developed a module to facilitate hierarchical content creation and permission control that's also of potential interest to folks outside of the academic community.
Preamble aside - about 3 years ago the college decided to fundamentally change the way it was approaching the web, and a little over 2 years ago we started building on top of Drupal. The project had some broad goals:
NITF/Atom/NewsML extensions for FeedAPI
Status: Added to official ideas list http://drupal.org/node/234652
I'm crossposting this to the following groups, all of which have a dog in this hunt: SOC2008, Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal, RSS & Aggregation.
News agencies, "legacy" newsroom management system implementors, publishers and archiving companies all support an XML standard called News Industry Text Format (NITF), developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council.
We need a robust, broadly supported common NITF feed handler that works with the Drupal FeedAPI framework, ultimately enabling loading of NITF data into CCK nodes with configurable entity mapping. This feed handler should expose its own API so that additional handlers can be added to process NewsML (primarily championed by Reuters) and Atom wrappers (used by the Associated Press in AP Exchange).
SimpleTest DROP Tasks
Some SimpleTests would make great DROP tasks. So I propose we create a list of the most-needed SimpleTests, and at any given time, the top 3-5 are active DROP tasks. Edit the table below; I'll be updating the DROP issue queue(s) as necessary.
Introductions
I figured we could start this group with a "virtual" edition of the Drupalchix BoF at Drupalcon Boston. Go around the "circle," as it were, and introduce ourselves, both to get to know each other a bit, but also so that we're aware that there /are/ other women out there in the Drupal community. ;)
So let's do some introductions... who are you, where are you from, what do you do for a living, what's your background, how'd you get into this crazy Drupal stuff, what do you do with Drupal, and whatever other random facts you'd like to share?
I'll kick it off, I guess...
Boston DrupalCon is over, Stay Involved!
DrupalCon just finished wrapping up and it has been an amazing week. Over 900 people attended over 50 sessions and over 30 Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions. In the rooms and halls you could see knowledge virally spreading throughout the attendees as well as connections being made. DrupalCon may be over but don't let the knowledge sharing stop here.
This event was put on by people just like everyone here on G.D.O, don't let events like this stop! YOU are keeping this going!
Here are a few great events coming up!
Sydney, Australia May 18th-22nd, 2008 Drupal Asia/Pacific Conference.
The first major Drupal conference in Australia teamed up with CeBit.
Austin, Texas March 8th, 2008 BarCamp with Much Drupal love
Orlando, Florida April 5th-6th, 2008 Barcamp with much Drupal love
Paris, France April 19th DrupalCamp2!
Drupalcon Boston 2008 mashup demo
This is the 5-minute "video from the future" demo presented by Dries in his State of Drupal keynote presentation at Drupalcon Boston 2008. The video demonstrates some of the mashup capabilities of an RDF and SPARQL-enabled Drupal as envisioned by Dries for the upcoming Drupal 7.x release. The version of the demo below includes the original narration by Ben Lavender (the audio from Dries's actual presentation is also available - the RDF material starts after the 52m:30s marker).
New Community-Powered Drupal Module Review Site
Drupal Modules is a community-powered Drupal module review system I've been working on for about a year now. I'm happy to announce the site is finally open to the public!
Here's a brief list of what you can do on the site:
- Rate and review any module
- Compare modules to see which has the best features, documentation, etc
- Check how many downloads a module is getting
- Easily search modules and reviews for keywords
- Get automatic recommendations for similar modules
- And more!
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