Add Open Source Catholic to Planet Drupal

More will be coming; the Archdiocese of St. Louis (www.archstl.org) is going to be ported from Joomla to Drupal in the coming months, and I will be posting a few more stories per month on Drupal-specific things.

I probably should've waited until then to ask inclusion for this feed...

Feel free to mark as postponed; I'll set it back once I have a few more articles posted.

Sure thing! I'll put it to needs review after a few more articles.

The www.archstl.org site launch will happen on February 22... I'm already in the process of writing a few articles on the migration from 49 Joomla sites to one OG-enabled Drupal site, along with a bunch of nice scratch-built features (some of which we plan on putting into modules at some point). [The Archdiocese has been working with a rather large Drupal company on this project].

I will switch back to Needs Review for now... but as time goes on, there will be more Drupal-specific posts (there are already a few), and the site (for those that may be suspicious of the name) doesn't focus on Catholocism or religion, but on using open source (or cheap) solutions to solve technology-related problems for Catholics.

I believe that the feed will add value to Drupal planet... I also maintain Midwestern Mac (which has a drupal tag on the Planet feed already).

The main reason is this: There is a large and very specific audience for that website: Catholic web developers. Since those in the Catholic faith are called to evangelize (spread their faith) online and off, there is a great need for more sharing of information w/r/t web development and software development in particular.

Open Source Catholic is meant to be a place where Catholic developers can share ideas and solutions (and questions) that are more particular towards implementing OS solutions in a Catholic worldview. There are differences, obviously, in the worldview of a Catholic web developer and a general web developer... typically, the general web developer has no budget to work with, and a Catholic developer has a negative budget ;-)

I have posted another Drupal-centric posting to OSC, and I have three more lined up in the next two weeks. I think they will be very helpful to the Drupal community, as they are some of the big issues I've run into while building out a site for a major Archdiocese in the US.

The post today concerns allowing for more sane user input in Views exposed filters, using a custom function with regex:
http://www.opensourcecatholic.com/blog/archstl/drupal-views-filters-mak

A post in the next week or so will show how we rebuilt the Joomla PrayerCenter component (minus some unnecessary features) using only CCK and Views, then improved it with a few other modules.

There will be many more posts of this nature in the coming weeks (especially on custom development, Drupal 7 improvements, theming), and I think they would greatly benefit the Drupal community.

And here's the term feed for drupal posts:
http://www.opensourcecatholic.com/taxonomy/term/18/0/feed

Sure thing! Here you go:

http://www.opensourcecatholic.com/taxonomy/term/225/0/feed

I have three posts on a huge project that's almost finished (to launch on the 22nd), and I think they will be helpful to those reading the Planet. They'll be posted after next week...

Bump? Sorry about not setting the tag - there are more Drupal articles, and tomorrow (Monday) two more will be posted. And many more, as time goes on. I'm going to start posting most of my Drupal-related posts to this site rather than Midwestern Mac, LLC...

We now have 9 articles up, and I'm working on a few more; is it possible to get the feed in soon? Some of these articles, I think, would be helpful to a large share of the Drupal community.

[Edit: Another bump... could someone please review?]

Thank you!

It seems to be working okay for me: http://www.opensourcecatholic.com/taxonomy/term/225/feed

Looking at the line in question, I can't find any error, either:

</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/tags/drupal">drupal</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/tags/views">views</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/tags/drupal-planet">Drupal Planet</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/tags/maps">maps</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/tags/google-maps">google maps</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/tags/mapstraction">mapstraction</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-vote field-type-fivestar field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><form class="fivestar-widget" action="/taxonomy/term/225/feed" method="post" id="fivestar-custom-widget--4" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><div  class="clearfix fivestar-average-text fivestar-average-stars fivestar-form-item fivestar-basic"><div class="form-item form-type-fivestar form-item-vote">

It seems like all characters are escaped properly... is there some way I can figure out what might be going wrong? I don't do anything special with the feeds here (it's provided by Drupal core).

Thanks!