Project shortname (and objective...) [#1340426]

Only projects promoted to full projects can be fully working installation profiles. After promoting, the project shortname cannot be changed anymore. Hence, the project name is set in stone.

Before we do this, let's double-check and verify that the current project name is sane, valid, and ready for long-term use. Afterwards, we're going to setup further infrastructure around this (e.g., a Twitter account, etc).

Suggested profile name: `portfolio`

Obviously, this heavily depends on the profile's actual purpose, audience, and goals. However, the very high-level idea and objective is pretty simple and clear:

A Drupal product delivering a personal website for you, me, and everyone else. Solving the obvious.

In other words, the goal is to make this the #1 solution to go if you want to build a (rather "simple") personal website for anyone. That typical thing that runs on FirstnameLastname.com.

Examples for this are well known: http://buytaert.net, http://webchick.net, http://drupal4hu.com, http://ca.tchpole.net, http://daniel.kudwien.net, http://morten.dk, http://jacine.net, http://angrydonuts.com, http://angrylittletree.com, http://robloach.net, http://wimleers.com, http://garfieldtech.com, and many more.

Definitely not limited to Drupal contributors/developers, of course. That developer audience merely needs a few more tweaks here and there, but that's a detail for later. (That said, sun's goal is to actually replace his own site with this profile.)

I hope this definition is sufficient for this issue, as I don't want to dive deeper into a discussion about actual features here.

Questions

Is portfolio the right name?
Or is that ambiguous? Or is there a better term?
Should it be portfolio or drupal_portfolio?
We don't have a naming standard for installation profiles yet. I've reviewed the names of all existing installation profile projects and didn't see a pattern.

Previous proposals

personal: Although the use-case for personal web sites is very concrete, there's not really a reason to limit it to persons (as in humans). The same conceptual functionality can be used to expose/publish the portfolio of a professional/freelancer or product.
mysite: Clashes with http://drupal.org/project/mysite and isn't very descriptive.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#10	portfolio.rename.patch	1.23 KB	sun

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Comments

Comment #1

dman CreditAttribution: dman commented 13 November 2011 at 22:58

mysite?

Comment #2

RobLoach

he/him

CreditAttribution: RobLoach commented 13 November 2011 at 23:33

Portfolio
Most people call these personal sites their website portfolio as it showcases personal and professional accomplishments. It's also not tailored to an individual either as it could be applied to a small business' portfolio.

For example:

A student portfolio is a systematic collection of student work and related material that depicts a student's activities, accomplishments, and achievements in one or more school subjects. The collection should include evidence of student reflection and self-evaluation, guidelines for selecting the portfolio contents, and criteria for judging the quality of the work. The goal is to help students assemble portfolios that illustrate their talents, represent their writing capabilities, and tell their stories of school achievement.

Comment #3

sun

German

Karlsruhe

CreditAttribution: sun commented 14 November 2011 at 00:18

@Rob Loach additionally pointed to these examples in IRC: http://designm.ag/inspiration/101-awesome-portfolio-sites/

Some of those show more than plain portfolio content:

a blog
professional/educational projects (~CV/resume)
bio
...

So I guess it would be fine to interpret the term more flexible.

I'd be happy with "portfolio" then.

Ultimately, note that this initiative was triggered by a (non-techie) friend of mine playing with the idea of getting a new job and thus asking me whether we can quickly build something simple. Brainstorming about this, it became clear that a simple CV/resume page would be awkwardly oldskool, and that it wouldn't have to be a throw-away site for job applications only. Instead, it should be possible to start with a simple site first, but use and make it more active in the long run, building your online home, and possibly also, reputation. I guess that's how almost all personal/portfolio sites are starting. (And so I'd almost derive a task/priority plan out of that ;)

Comment #5

sun

German

Karlsruhe

CreditAttribution: sun commented 14 November 2011 at 15:14

Status:

Needs review

» Reviewed & tested by the community

Updated the summary with new portfolio proposal. Promoting to RTBC, but will give potential reviewers one more day to object.

Comment #6

yoroy CreditAttribution: yoroy commented 14 November 2011 at 15:21

Awesome. 'Portfolio' was the working title I had for the 'single person' Drupal use case as well, great to see others arrive at same.

Comment #6.0

yoroy CreditAttribution: yoroy commented 14 November 2011 at 15:21

Issue summary:

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Updated issue summary.

Comment #7

JacobSingh CreditAttribution: JacobSingh commented 14 November 2011 at 15:36

Portfolio is great. Another idea: "aboutme"

Lots of people who use it as a personal brand site don't actually think of the world portfolio, but then aboutme is vague too, but maybe we can pick up some SEO juice :)

Comment #8

valderama CreditAttribution: valderama commented 14 November 2011 at 18:38

I found this issue via twitter, and thought I leave a comment..

A "portfolio" website in the way I know it, definitely has some kind of showcase functionality. Typically there is a "Work" content type, with a taxonomy to describe the work-category (like Web sites, Mobile App, ... ). Besides a content-type and a taxonomy a kind of "view" would be needed. Maybe with a simple way to filter the works by category.

I think that many people would expect such a "showcase" feature on a "portfolio" site, so if the name "portfolio" is chosen, such an expectation should be considered _somehow_.

Btw. do you think about shipping the profile with a theme? In my opinion, this one could be a nice option: http://drupal.org/project/simpleclean -- as it's simplicity is appealing for designers (which very often need online portfolios) I think. (At least designer who know how to write CSS, because without customisation its probably too boring ;)

Comment #9

sun

German

Karlsruhe

CreditAttribution: sun commented 14 November 2011 at 19:05

@valderama: Managing expectations is a very good consideration! That said, I intentionally ignored the technical details in your comment. But yes, the "showcase functionality" is definitely part of the use-case here - it's the CV/resume part of personal portfolios, and a very similar projects/work/references section for professional portfolios.

Comment #10

sun

German

Karlsruhe

CreditAttribution: sun commented 15 November 2011 at 11:59

Status:

Reviewed & tested by the community

» Fixed

File	Size
portfolio.rename.patch	1.23 KB

Committed and pushed attached patch. Thanks all!

Comment #11

sun

German

Karlsruhe

CreditAttribution: sun commented 15 November 2011 at 12:08

Status:

Fixed

» Reviewed & tested by the community

Oh noes... infrastructure issues... copypasting, just to let you know:

The new install profile we're working on is supposed to use the name Portfolio. We checked that it doesn't exist. Now I tried to actually change its name and promote it, but suddenly d.o throws an error that it would exist already. Searching harder, this very old project http://drupal.org/node/25693 appeared, somehow also occupying http://drupalcode.org/project/portfolio.git - can we do something about that? e.g., remove it, rename it?

Comment #12

sun

German

Karlsruhe

CreditAttribution: sun commented 15 November 2011 at 12:59

Sent the following message to the current project owner, obsesif:

Hi there,

the Drupal community wants to start a new installation profile, a "product", and as a concrete alternative to Drupal core.

After a lengthier discussion, we concluded that "Portfolio" would be the appropriate name, and the namespace appeared to be available. Only afterwards, drupal.org revealed that there is an old project occupying the name as well as git repository already... :-/

The project and its code seem to be outdated and not maintained though.

So we'd like to ask whether we could delete this existing project and repository, in order to make room for the installation profile?

Thanks!
sun

Comment #13

jthorson CreditAttribution: jthorson commented 16 November 2011 at 02:52

Late to the party, but given that you're currently stalled, I'll toss in my few cents.

I tend to agree that the term 'portfolio' infers a graphical showcase of some kind, though that opinion might be tainted by the fact that my clients tend to be photographers, artists, and designers. While it does fit, I'd suggest that the word itself leads to a slightly more specific use case. And no, this is not just because I'm putting together a 'portfolio' install profile for photographers right now ... that's strictly a coincidence. ;)

'AboutMe' also immediately jumped into mind. Other alternatives which sprung up include 'Promotion' (existing, but seemingly abandoned), 'SalesPitch', 'Compendium', and 'Opus'.

Also considered 'Brochure', 'Folio', 'Lexicon', 'Dossier', and 'Briefcase' ... all of which were already taken. However, the term 'MyFolio' appears to be available.

Then I turned down a different track, and considered 'Hello' or 'HelloWorld', which is really what these types of sites are about, right? Then I took another turn, and arrived at the self-explanitory 'I' ... which, of course, could also be used for 'We' sites.

And then ... in the end ... the whole exercise led me back to realizing that 'portfolio' was actually pretty darn good!