[drupal-docs] drupalED, drupalART?

[Farsheed]

I can definitely see the power in a config
wizard/install profile system.  So maybe it'd be a
good idea, like you suggest, to build several drupal
installs to see what sort of configurations would go
into an "artist profile" for the installer.  Maybe
even do what you did with your "unofficial" drupalED
distro, just to get some feedback from artists to see
what settings they find useful and what is not useful.

Also Boris, I will offer to assist with the profile
installer, but my knowledge of php is pretty limited
so I don't know how much I could help. Probably the
best way I could help would be to build several drupal
base sites and a "best practices" documentation for an
"artist profile"...also Charlie when you say "best
practices" documentation, what do you mean? A doc
aimed at the users using the profiles, or those
creating the profiles for the installers?

Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help
out with the process.

Farsheed


--- Charlie Lowe <cel4145 at cyberdash.com> wrote:

> Boris is right. The configuration wizard/install
> profile system that 
> Adrian has been working on is what you'll need. I
> created the first 
> "unofficial" drupaled about two years ago. It was
> the configuration I 
> was using with other teachers for classroom use.
> However, Drupal can be 
> used for many other uses in education other than
> just the classroom, and 
> we'll need profiles to accomplish this.
> 
> At the same time, you could also begin building your
> profiles by 
> creating base sites for some various different uses
> to get a feel for 
> what configurations they would need. And it will
> probably help to create 
> "best practices" documentation for using those
> profile sites.
> 
> 
> Farsheed wrote:
> > This question is aimed mostly at charlie lowe and
> > others that helped start drupalED.org.  I'm
> looking to
> > start up DrupalART: drupal distributions for
> artists.
> > 
> > I'd like to make the distro a really, really
> dumbed
> > down version of Drupal.  Basically so that it
> requires
> > little to no configuration.  It would have those
> > modules that artists would find useful,
> pre-installed
> > and ready to go, with an emphasis on being easy to
> > theme if you already know html and css.  The aim
> would
> > be to get artists up and running as fast and as
> cheap
> > as possible.  A simple mysql dump, predefined
> roles,
> > pre-installed modules, pre-defined flexinodes and
> > taxonomies.
> > 
> > Charlie, before I dive into this, do you have any
> > pointers that might streamline the process?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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