<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 21, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Samantha Moscheck wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Thanks Kieran!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">In this case there's a lot of customization of modules in order... I've been building Drupal websites for 3 years and while there's a TON of great stuff that's come out in the past several months that I haven't implemented yet, I'm sure some new development is in order for this project.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">I do hope to build upon existing modules though, in a way that's useful for the maintainers... including LoginToboggin, Ecommerce, and Organic Groups. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ok, well we are doing a LOT of development for those three areas right now.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Angela, from CivicSpace, is the 4.6 maintainer for OG and LoginToggin. We are continuing to do a lot of e-commerce for development both on 4.6 and 4.7 for <A href="http://goodstorm.com">http://goodstorm.com</A> and other customers. Here is the spec of 4.7 Organic Groups we are doing for BuyBlue: <A href="http://drupal.org/node/59082">http://drupal.org/node/59082</A>. I am writing up a table of all the OG functionality as we speak in fact! OG will probably hit 20 contributed modules in a few weeks if we keep up at this pace. OG_views is going to open a lot of possibilities. E-commerce is probably at or near about 40 contributed modules now with two major additional specs in the works.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We check our modules into Drupal CVS and there is a lot of very active collaboration going on with both Organic Groups and E-commerce right now. So we are happy to help scope needs in public so that we can encourage the consulting list to become a great collaborative tool for the community.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV>Kieran</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">What would be REALLY helpful would be any tips / best practices for getting involved with developing and contributing modules. Up to now I've quietly worked behind the scenes as an implementor and now I want to be more active in making contributions.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Any guidance on that front would be much appreciated ;)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Best,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="312574001-22042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">-Samantha</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>