Outline of presentation

Or: Why we need a general modular file system

• Contents
• Media communities
• Modular file system
•  In general
•  In detail
• Requirements
• Options
• Recap
• Discussion
• Media communities
• Distributed: personal sites connected
• Central from distributed: flickr alikes, using APIs
• Central community: one site, many users
• Modular file system
• Why
• Only personal media sites are truly supported
• No central, organised effort
• Easier APIs, standards, libaries and reusable code lead to easier development
• How
• file.inc rewrite or overhaul
• general upload module alike node.module
• new module system
• Requirements
• Any file should be attachable to any object
• Core should provide
• Basic file handling
• All APIs and hook calls
• A default database table
• Options
• Menu/Form api alike object oriented actions, callbacks and
• Abstraction layers, alike themes (wrapped function calls)
• Hook based system alike nodes
• .inc based abstraction
• Recap
• In order to make drupal ready for file based communities, we need to get a joined effort going. Based on a solid file system.
• Discussion