User accounts/membership features [#205680]

It seems that a lot of what is being discussed about DD2 is a rehash of DD1, in that we have agreed that we need everything to be standardised etc in order to make lessons (teaching them and learning from them) workable.

It does occur to me though, that this is also an opportunity to make something more of the project that just this rehash.

Hence I'm thinking that investing some time in introducing membership features would be of some use.

For example:

social bookmarking to keep up with who knows what about what. No more googling thru nonsense for views argument handling code snippets.
Newsletters for each dojo session with synopsis of links to relevant stuff.
Membership would add quantifiable information tracking and gathering facilities to the site, making it easier to obtain monies if and when necessary.

There's probably a dozen other things that could be added on the back of this. The point is, while people start to use the dojo, why not have them on board as members to start with, to avoid playing catch-up later.

my two cents...

Comments

Comment #1

NikLP CreditAttribution: NikLP commented 2 January 2008 at 18:41

Edit: this obviously ties in directly with user profiles

Comment #2

gusaus CreditAttribution: gusaus commented 4 January 2008 at 23:37

Title:

Membership and the proposed scope of this project

» Proposed scope/subject matter of this project

Think some sort of newsletter/zine element would be a great way to showcase Drupal and the community (along with the learning materials, interactive workshops, etc.).

Some examples:

Key summary of drupal development
Feature case studies and tutorials
Tips and tricks
Spotlight on individuals/organizations within the community
Dojo success stories
Reviews of products (aka - software / IDE's / hosting companies)
Upcoming Drupal events

Possibly we could work with the folks who are writing the Drupal Newsletter (http://groups.drupal.org/node/4988)?

Comment #3

trevortwining CreditAttribution: trevortwining commented 5 January 2008 at 12:13

I like these general directions, and would be happy to join my recent efforts in the newsletter into something more dojo-oriented. I think that the dojo might be a more nurturing home for the newsletter in the long-term anyway. Again, the problem there isn't getting the material, it's just assembling and cleaning.

I really like the idea about the drupal tricks and tips because of how easy it is to start showing stuff like that on the site via views (random blocks, etc.)

I think the spotlight might find a better home on d.o. unless the focus is different.

Comment #4

trevortwining CreditAttribution: trevortwining commented 5 January 2008 at 12:15

Also, @NickLP, have you thought about whether you'd go with a typical profile.module approach, or one of the user-as-nodes approach?

Comment #5

NikLP CreditAttribution: NikLP commented 5 January 2008 at 13:32

I think that depends on what the scope of this project becomes. I would imagine that this will become clearer over the next week or so, and certainly after the coffee talk.

At a guess, I'd plump for Bio; I just played with it a couple weeks ago, and paired with cck_field_perms, you can do loads with it, really easily.

Comment #6

add1sun CreditAttribution: add1sun commented 6 January 2008 at 00:47

Title:

Proposed scope/subject matter of this project

» User accounts/membership features

I feel like the discussion in #2 is a bit OT for this issue, which is really more about the questions around should we have user accounts on dd.com and why. I've made the newsletter/zine a different issue and copied the relevant info over: http://drupal.org/node/206791

Comment #7

NikLP CreditAttribution: NikLP commented 6 January 2008 at 12:48

Yeah, to be fair, the features that I outlined in #1 are really only there as qualifiers for the overall issue. Each of those features that is worthy of another issue has already got one. Gotta love Gus, tho - ever the ideas man :)

Comment #8

add1sun CreditAttribution: add1sun commented 13 January 2008 at 19:57

Priority:

Normal

» Critical

Druplicon> http://drupal.org/node/205680 => User accounts/membership features => Drupal Dojo 2.0, Website, normal, active, 2 IRC mentions
[14:54] +1
[14:54] i am personally voting for want and not need
[14:54] on this one
[14:54] + 1
[14:54] +!
[14:55] need
[14:55] +1
[14:55] you need an account to post bookmarks in any sensible fashion
[14:55] thie is just basic user accounts?
[14:55] +1
[14:55] +1 need
[14:55] "bookmarks, etc"
[14:55] oops +1 on an absolute need - def. needs to be hashed out
[14:55] brenda003: yes
[14:55] brenda003, yes this is basically allowing for accounts without deterineing the scope of the accounts yet
[14:55] +1
[14:55] +1 need
[14:55] but I say we use d.o accounts ONLY
[14:56] Senpai++
[14:56] You have to be a member of d.o in order to play in our sandbox
[14:56] yup
[14:56] Senpai: good point
[14:56] ok, well details later
[14:56] * allisterb (n=allister@cuscon47511.tstt.net.tt) has joined #drupal-dojo
[14:56] Senpai--
[14:56] otherwise wtf'in point? :)
[14:56] No sense fragmenting the clan
[14:56] add specific thoughts to the issue queue folks
[14:56] I will.
[14:56] anymore votes?
[14:57] at this time the tally is +1 and need