1. Groupware like calendar and 2. Chapters and multisites

chx froze the Summer of Code (SoC) 2006 thread upon which some good comments with regard to Groupware like calendar and Chapters and multi-sites had been posted and chx also mentioned

...comments will be removed and what's worthy will be moved to the book...

So, I thought it would be a good idea to copy and paste some of the groupware like calendar and chapters/multisites comments before they are potentially removed and deemed not worthy for moving to the book. Here they are, although it's not in the same easy-to-follow format as a forum. To compensate, I labeled each comment as follows:

Topic 1, Comment 1
groupware like calender

Topic 2, Comment 1
Chapters and mini-sites

...and so on. It's the best I could do. :)

Topic 1, Comment 1
groupware like calender
alaa - April 14, 2006 - 18:40
how about some groupware like calender features built on top of event.module?

private events, assigning events to users, group planner view, etc.
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Topic 1, Comment 2
Private events
rbrooks00 - April 14, 2006 - 22:25
We're currently working with some developers to extend OG to do private events, just as an FYI. This will be contributed back to Drupal when it is done. So no need for duplicate efforts, but the rest of that sounds really cool.

Hopefully a more comprehensive post on all that later.
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Topic 1, Comment 3
Oh and...
rbrooks00 - April 14, 2006 - 22:51
Also the concept of having calendars for a group and having a site-wide calendar.

We are specifically doing this to support chapters which could have their own calendar and there would also be a "national" calendar.
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Topic 2, Comment 1
Chapters and mini-sites
jasonwhat - April 14, 2006 - 20:39
Drupal already is great for multi-siting, but I'd like to see organic groups and taxonomy extended to allow for Chapters within a site and/or mini-sites. Chapters would have their own admins, search, menus, and terms--a site within the site. I've written more extensively on this and will dig that up if anyone is interested.

Topic 2, Comment 2
Also working on this :)
rbrooks00 - April 14, 2006 - 22:26
We're also working on this as well, maybe not everything there is to do but a solid start to it.

Target for completion is June-ish 2006 and it'll all be contributed back to Drupal.

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Topic 2, Comment 3
Indeed :)
webchick - April 14, 2006 - 23:17
I'll be making a post to the devel list this weekend detailing these proposed enhancements and asking for feedback from folks in terms of approaches and such.

Topic 2, Comment 4
Chapters and mini-sites
WellnessCorps - April 15, 2006 - 09:51

robertDouglass,

First of all, A HUGE THANK YOU for getting SoC 2006 going! You're awesome!

I apologize for not yet having the know-how to post a detailed list of what the current code is, its shortcomings, technical specs, etc., per your request at the top of this page, but I'm hoping my post helps someone get some ideas who can then write things up in a more formalized manner. I'll be happy to elaborate further once I've read the response posts I requested below from jasonwhat and webchick, but I do believe this is an excellent start to writing a detailed description of the project for an aspiring SoC 2006 college student. :)

jasonwhat,

A BIG +1 to what you wrote as setting up chapters is important to the success of my business vision. You wrote:

I've written more extensively on this and will dig that up if anyone is interested.

Yes, I'm interested. If it's a link, please post the link here in response to my post.

Although I think organic groups is an excellent module, I'm just a bit leery of using it due to the fact that I can't use OG and Taxonomy Access Module together at the same time from what Robert Douglass wrote in Chapter 4, page 131 of his excellent book, Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress: (thanks Robert!)

Organic Groups isn’t the only module in the contributions repository that implements node-level access controls. Other modules that provide access controls are Node Privacy by Role (http://drupal.org/project/node_privacy_byrole), Taxonomy Access Control (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access), and Nodeperm Role (http://drupal.org/project/nodeperm_role). Unfortunately, these modules tend to interfere with each other. This is a basic weakness in the way Drupal’s permissions are handled and is a topic of hot debate in the developer community. Be warned: do not try to mix multiple node-access modules!

Is there a way around this weakness and, if so, could a SoC 2006 college student tackle it?

My goal is to eventually have something similar to NSHMBA's chapters, of which I used to be a board member, and thus allowing my web site visitors to easily visit different chapters and join the one they are geographically near to. I prefer not having to deal with a slew of min-sites (and management thereof), but at the same time I want OG and ALSO taxonomy access control but that isn't currently possible due to node-level access control issues.

webchick,

I'm looking forward to reading your post. Please post the link here to your post on the devel list.

Thanks to everyone!

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Topic 2, Comment 5
This is pretty much what we are building
rbrooks00 - April 15, 2006 - 12:46

My goal is to eventually have something similar to NSHMBA's chapters, of which I used to be a board member, and thus allowing my web site visitors to easily visit different chapters and join the one they are geographically near to. I prefer not having to deal with a slew of min-sites (and management thereof)

This is pretty much what we are building, but a little more robust than the way it is done there.

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Topic 2, Comment 6
New thread?
jasonwhat - April 15, 2006 - 12:10
Webchick, let us know on this thread when your proposed enhancements are up and we can start a new thread on that over there. I'll repost my in-depth thoughts on such a module based on your proposal, and it definitely seems like there is big interest in this from others.

Topic 2, Comment 7
Dedicated thread would be a good idea
rbrooks00 - April 15, 2006 - 12:55
A dedicated thread would probably be a good idea. But just to clarify what is going on, we're paying for all of this work to be done and we have a pretty well defined scope for it. Once that work is done it will all be contributed back - hopefully June/July 2006 timeframe.

The discussion would be useful to determine if there are ways to do things that will help out other projects or allow for better integration. What we probably wouldn't entertain is some kind of design change that results in significantly more hours because as I said there is a defined budget for this. But if it is something small that would greatly help other efforts that might be ok.

It'll also be useful in letting people know what is being worked on so they can start parallel efforts for other add ons.

The solution we've arrived at allows us to implement chapters as we invision them and we did this with a budget in mind as well. That isn't to say it is the complete solution for chapters and I'm sure there are lots of great ideas out there, it is just what we wanted and what we could afford.

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Topic 2, Comment 8
sounds cool, we are waiting impatiently
szczym - April 15, 2006 - 02:39
and don't forget about possibility to run that mini sites from separate domain ;)

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Topic 2, Comment 9
We're also working on multiple
bonobo - April 15, 2006 - 09:51
We're also working on multiple sections within one install :)

It sounds like in a couple weeks/months, we should get together and compare methodologies.

But, this is off topic for this thread --

/hijack ended

Cheers,

Bill

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