<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 13, 2005, at 7:14 AM, John Sechrest wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">But this is basically the problem that you have with Civic Space.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">They have a configuration and they give you are tarball, which you install</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">and then have to spend 20 hours tweaking.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>The default configuration for the Political Action Profile is here: <A href="http://civicspacelabs.org/home/profile/politicalactionplatform">http://civicspacelabs.org/home/profile/politicalactionplatform</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This details enabled modules, roles, permissions, and some default values. I have been soliciting feedback to reduce you twenty hours of configuration. I'd recommend you look at the CivicSpace.mysql file: <A href="http://svn.civicspacelabs.org/trunk/database/civicspace.mysql">http://svn.civicspacelabs.org/trunk/database/civicspace.mysql</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In particular look at at the end of the file where we configure modules and set default values. You'll also want to look at our configure module which does a lot of configuration. There is no reason you couldn't modify this for your own needs.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV>Kieran</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>