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Easy Starter Kit (ESK)

Please Note: These starter kits are no longer supported, and most of the relevant Community Media modules have been forked as part of the Community Media Advanced initiative.

We created this fork to provide a central place to host all community media modules that are in ongoing development, and to facilitate new releases.

We are doing this under the terms of GPL version 2, and using Drupal branch/ tag/ release conventions on Github so that new releases can be shown on the Available updates Drupal page the same way they are for modules hosted on drupal.org.

The following organizations have undertaken this Community Media Advanced initiative together (listed alphabetically as of July 2017):

Amherst Media, Brattleboro Community Television (BCTV), Easton Community Access Television (ECAT), High Five Access Media (HFAM), Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), Open Signal PDX, ORCA Media, PhillyCAM, Regional Educational Television Network (RETN), St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN), Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM)

For more information please visit cmadvanced.org

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The Easy Starter Kit is the first of three Drupal distributions that contain a bundle of Community Media specific and general Drupal contributed modules. The Community Media Starter Kits page explains the kits and the suggested installation sequence.

Initial Download, Installation, and Configuration on Pantheon

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Initial Download, Installation, and Configuration on Other Hosts

The initial installation of the Starter Kit is the same as a standard Drupal installation. Follow this link for a step-by-step Drupal 7 install. Follow this link for the initial Drupal site administration.

Before You Get Started - SAVE YOURSELF TIME, READ THIS FIRST

Starting Outline of what a new user needs to know. These updates will be incorporated into the updated https://drupal.org/project/cm

Community Media Show

This is a placeholder for a Drupal Community Media Documentation Sprint in April 2012.

Community Media Starters - Preconfigured Modules

These modules have been preconfigured for you with settings most commonly used by community media groups. These configurations are part of

Crew Connect - DEPRICATED

The Crew Connect module can be used by any site wanting to connect volunteers with specific skills to people who need those skills. It was

Customizing the Forms for Staff and Producers

One of the biggest advantages of using a modern content management system for your community media site is the ability to customize forms

Customizing the Look of Your Site

The Community Media Theme is a sub-theme of the responsive Zen theme (version 1.x was instead based on the Omega theme), designed as part of

Importing Airings, Events, and Videos from RSS Feeds

One of the many things Drupal does well is aggregation. The Feeds module allows you to create content from an RSS, Atom, iCal, .csv, XML or

Managing Backups

Before you launch a your new site, you should configure a backup process and test it to make sure you can restore your site quickly. A

Managing Users - Who can log into to the site and what can they do?

Allowing producers and other members of your community to log into your website is often new functionality for community media groups. This

Preventing Spam

Two modules are included in all versions of the Community Media Starter Kits to limit the number of spam submissions a site gets.

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