[drupal-devel] CivicSpace development moving to Drupal

[Chris Messina]

Excellent. I'll get them to check it out ASAP.

What's fairly ironic about this, is that if the module/functionality
that I'm looking for existed, we could use it to build this module!!
;)

Chris


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:14:33 -0500, Moshe Weitzman <weitzman at tejasa.com> wrote:
> Sounds great Chris. Your engineers might want to architect this using
> og.module (organic groups) as their basis for projects and workspaces.
> It supports al lot of what you are going to need
> public/private/moderated groups, group admins, access control, photo
> albums, group blogs, etc. It does not have strict project/ticketing yet.
> I'd be happy to help the SFX team if desired.
> 
> -moshe
> 
> Chris Messina wrote:
> > Dries,
> >
> > I'm really excited by this whole list! (I would add forum improvements
> > as well, but other than that, it looks good).
> >
> > You should know that I'm endeavoring to make a really cool project
> > module for Spread Firefox v2 which basically aims to combine
> > 43things.com with Basecamp-like workspaces. I think this would be
> > extremely useful for Drupal & CivicSpace since it would allow people
> > to:
> >
> > 1. find new projects
> > 2. suggest new projects
> > 3. create new projects and get volunteers
> > 4. have instant workspaces (blog, forums, issue tracking, member tracking, etc)
> >
> > The goal is to imitate SourceForge but do it right and make it very
> > simply to get involved or simply track a project. I'll be mockup up
> > workflows and UI stuff in the coming week(s). I have 20 or so people
> > ready on the SFX side to work on this and are already developing their
> > own requirements and ideas. Ideally this could be a really excellent
> > project for us to collaborate on.
> >
> > If you're interested, you can see some of the very early initial ideas
> > for the SFX redesign here:
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/sets/135075/
> >
> > Thoughts & ideas welcome!
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:18:34 +0100, Dries Buytaert <dries at buytaert.net> wrote:
> >
> >>On 24 Mar 2005, at 11:40, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thanks. I'd really like to see the Drupal project advance a bit faster
> >>>than it does now.
> >>>
> >>>Currently, I am often not sure if it is worth my time to work on a
> >>>specific bug/feature as I have not much of an idea if (and when!) it
> >>>will make it to core. I guess there are more people like me.
> >>
> >>I'm compiling a detailed list of things I believe are core-worthy and
> >>which I'd like to see included or worked on.  I'll share this list as
> >>soon as it's ready.  At the top of my head, in no particular order and
> >>lacking details:
> >>
> >>1. Workflow actions (and e-mail subscriptions/notifications in
> >>particular)
> >>2. Improved node submission form
> >>3. Profile fields per role
> >>4. Blocks visibility per role
> >>5. phpTemplate
> >>6. Better link management (node links + menu links)
> >>7. Folksonomies and taxonomy improvements
> >>8. CCK
> >>9. Improved administration structure, visual distinction, intuitive
> >>placement of settings
> >>10. Improved versioning
> >>11. Loose caching
> >>12. Better blog.module
> >>13. Better archive.module
> >>14. Contact module extension to let you contact groups of people.
> >>15. USABILITY IMPROVEMENTS
> >>16. Improved 'my account' page.
> >>17. One node-level permissions scheme (taxonomy-role?)
> >>18. Better file handling/serving (permissions)
> >>19. Misc. aggregator improvements
> >>
> >>--
> >>Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
> >>
> >>
> 
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