stephen verdant's sandbox: Event Rideshare

RideShare for Events Module

-- Drupal Camps: it's ready! Contact me if you want any help setting it up, happy to volunteer if it isn't obvious or you hit a snag --

This rideshare module is intended for events such as conferences where people are already creating accounts to register for the event, before they go to the event. Perfect for Drupal camps and Conference Organizing Distribution [COD] sites: first used at BADcamp.

It creates a content type for rideshare posts, putting the entry form in a block that automatically loads previous posts. A view allows you to see others' rideshare posts in either a chart or map form. The chart and map can be sorted based on your rideshare (ex: show me everyone leaving within 2 hours of when I'm leaving.)

It depends on many other modules, which site-builders are welcome to fiddle with and customize.

Downloads

D7:
git clone http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/stephen_Verdant/1161014.git event_rideshare

D6:
Be sure to read the INSTALL.txt (D6 hasn't been looked at in a long time)

git clone git@github.com:StephenCataldo/Verdant-Share.git eventrideshare

This is actively maintained -- please do ask if you have problems.

Status and D7

Looking for testers before taking it out of the sandbox; no know significant problems.

No upgrade path: the module is intended to be used on a site for an upcoming event, not used indefinitely. We're done with D6 development. It worked at BAD Camp 2011.

Co-developer or co-maintainer would be very welcome if you want to build the next level or expand to other sharing-at-events.

You Can Help!

• [event planner] Looking for a couple people planning events; I can help you set it up.
• [skill: artistic] Create new taxonomy markers that invoke driving vs riding
• [ninja advice] Publishing a well-written Drupal-compliant module: anyone willing to walk me through getting this out of sandbox?
• [ninja advice & brainstorming & future] This needs at-the-event instant-answer variants: SMS? Smart phone?
• [event planning & brainstorming & future] Taxi-sharing, room-sharing, what else fits with this?

History & Authorship

I've been setting up ride and room-shares for events with SpaceShare written years ago in Perl, and the general approach comes from there. This code was developed for Verdant Event, building Drupal sites for conferences with integrated greening tools. It's intended ultimately as one of three modules: carpool-share, room-share, and flight-match with taxi-share. The roomshare is simple; the taxi-match is prototyped here.

Contact me if you'd like to help -- my intention over the next few months is to find conference planners who need Drupal development for conferences, and I'd be happy to help build your conference website or join your team building conference websites.