hey nedjo

I am interested in using the Open Outreach distro as a base-profile for an Aegir-based Occupy support project

I know there has been interest in Occupy Drupal type projects at Drupalcon Denver and BADCAMP
http://2011.badcamp.net/program/bofs/drupal-occupywallstreet
http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/occupy-drupal

with a cold winter coming up, I think its really important to increase the support given to the various Occupy's online

I am also doing a community college online/hybrid educators course right now, which unfortunately is Moodle based, and I'd like to use OpenOutreach for that too with the Open Occupy theme

I registered the domains OccupyDrupal.org and OccupyDrupal.com

thoughts?

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nedjo’s picture

Thanks for posting, definitely interested.

First thing I imagine is to firm up the aims and spec. Is this designed to be an install profile creating Occupy sites, for Occupy groups? If so, what functionality do they need?

From there we can look at how this meshes with what's currently in Open Outreach. Do we use the Open Outreach profile and just add in some custom features? Or do we need a separate install profile?

Anyway, this is exactly what I'd love to see Open Outreach used for and I'm definitely in for helping make it happen.

eeeb’s picture

This sounds like a badass project. I'm down to help!

niccolox’s picture

ok, cool !

I am assigning domains now.

In the spirit of the Occupy movement, I think we need to just move in, like Drupal, its a do-ocracy (sp?).

I think, we just use OpenOutreach as is, to start, and maybe some Features (Kit Compliant, Debut compatible) might emerge as common patterns

I am going to use the BOA Aegir hosting platform http://groups.drupal.org/boa which has a lot of options for distro's, but I'd like to only host OpenOutreach for Occupy's where needed

am thinking of doing a news aggregator site using ManagingNews.com's distro, and see whats out there.. lots of Wordpress I bet .. will need helpers to curate this, gather RSS feeds etc, would ideally like to set-up Apache Nutch to do web-crawls where RSS feeds fail or aren't present

maybe do another hub discussion site in Acquia Commons, but not sure yet if thats a distraction, Commons makes me feel dirty

more soon

niccolox’s picture

hmm.

before moving on this, I am going to wait a bit and see what happens over the next week or so

I am concerned about the recent deaths, the potential for peaceful democratic spaces to become militant squats battling police etc

personally I also feel over exposed by events here in Berkeley and Oakland, its getting ugly and I am not sure how to responsibly contribute

if anyone has better ideas let me know

aLearningGuy’s picture

I'd love to help on this project

Robert

niccolox’s picture

ok, I started with an aggregator http://planet.occupydrupal.org/

need to work out a better business model.. have some ideas

clue: "occupy with the quality of ideas"

Chaz Cheadle’s picture

Please check out http://news.occupy.net. as there has already been work done on this.
chaz

niccolox’s picture

chaz, that looks good. I've redirect planet. to your site... I have not time to curate, but could you add http://occupycop17.org to the RSS feeds?

I must admit, I've been looking for an angle on this that is generally useful. I am not really in a position for risky activism, I've just started a family etc etc

two things I am doing is;

1. helping teach an online education course via a community college over the winter using Open Outreach

2. sharing the stage at the San Francisco Drupal Users Group on Monday night: Occupy Drupal: Drupal Quickstart and Open Outreach For the 99%

niccolox’s picture

chaz, again off-topic, I also find Yahoo pipes is useful for Managing News feeds
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=nHNB8TJm3BGumlGA9YS63A&_render...

niccolox’s picture

and http://occupydrupal.org is now live, running the latest Open Outreach BETA 5

I must say, it rocks ! I love the Debut Feature set, the choice of Modules and Mix And Match Fusion theme...

this is the Drupal distro (droid) you are looking for

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