Good Morning,
I'd like to utilise a social-network site for student-groups using only Free and Open-Source tools.
Mockup of the student-group homepage (dashboard): http://i.stack.imgur.com/ggEDC.png
I am looking at various solutions both Drupal based (Drupal Commons, OpenAtrium &etc) and not (Diaspora, Insoshi, Yogurt Social Network, BuddyPress, Elgg, Mahara, CommunityEngine, Lovd by Less &etc).
Is Drupal the best platform for this site, or should I use something else? — If Drupal, please tell me which modules (or distribution of modules, or project) to use.
Thanks for all suggestions & information,
Alec Taylor
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Alec Taylor alec.taylor6@gmail.comwrote:
Good Morning,
I'd like to utilise a social-network site for student-groups using only Free and Open-Source tools.
Mockup of the student-group homepage (dashboard): http://i.stack.imgur.com/ggEDC.png
I am looking at various solutions both Drupal based (Drupal Commons, OpenAtrium &etc) and not (Diaspora, Insoshi, Yogurt Social Network, BuddyPress, Elgg, Mahara, CommunityEngine, Lovd by Less &etc).
Is Drupal the best platform for this site, or should I use something else? — If Drupal, please tell me which modules (or distribution of modules, or project) to use.
Thanks for all suggestions & information,
Hi Alec,
We're using Drupal Commons for something similar to this. You might also want to consider buddypress, depending on your needs. It's the engine behind the CUNY academic commons: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/
finally, you could think about just using google plus or some other existing semi-standards-compliant social network.
Best wof luck, Matt
Drupal is a great choice for this.
You can use VoiceBox to get this done very easily - for two examples of VoiceBox-based sites, see http://youthvoices.net/ and http://voicesonthegulf.org
VoiceBox is an installation profile built with funding from the Knight Foundation as part of the Knight Drupal Initiative.
The codebase, and accompanying documentation, is available at http://code.funnymonkey.com
Cheers,
Bill
On 08/16/2011 07:48 AM, Alec Taylor wrote:
Good Morning,
I'd like to utilise a social-network site for student-groups using only Free and Open-Source tools.
Mockup of the student-group homepage (dashboard): http://i.stack.imgur.com/ggEDC.png
I am looking at various solutions both Drupal based (Drupal Commons, OpenAtrium&etc) and not (Diaspora, Insoshi, Yogurt Social Network, BuddyPress, Elgg, Mahara, CommunityEngine, Lovd by Less&etc).
Is Drupal the best platform for this site, or should I use something else? — If Drupal, please tell me which modules (or distribution of modules, or project) to use.
Thanks for all suggestions& information,
Alec Taylor
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