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Re: Community.okfn.org

To follow this up. Major problems as identified in those vision discussions:

It is unclear to the average observer (and often even to those more
involved with our work!):

  A) What we're up to
  B) Who's doing it
  C) How you get involved
  D) [maybe not so important] What the decision making structure is

community.okfn.org is an attempt to address this by:

  1. Integrate project and working group info in a single place
  2. Centralized "recent changes" to give an overview of what we are up to
  3. Create a dedicated space for OKFN "members" and others involved
in what we're doing so the community becomes visible. (This will also
be the concrete implementation of the governance structure discussed
last November [1])

We want both:

  * Input on the technology (wordpress versus drupal versus plone versus ...)
  * How to do 1+2+3 with given technology (e.g. anyone out there
familiar with drupal profile pages?)
  * What else we should be doing (see
http://wiki.okfn.org/WebsiteRedesign for current discussion)

Regards,

Rufus

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James Casbon | 10 Feb 14:35

Re: Community.okfn.org

On 3 February 2010 13:13, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock@...> wrote:
> community.okfn.org is an attempt to address this by:
>
>  1. Integrate project and working group info in a single place
>  2. Centralized "recent changes" to give an overview of what we are up to
>  3. Create a dedicated space for OKFN "members" and others involved
> in what we're doing so the community becomes visible. (This will also
> be the concrete implementation of the governance structure discussed
> last November [1])
>
> We want both:
...
>  * How to do 1+2+3 with given technology (e.g. anyone out there
> familiar with drupal profile pages?)

I actually think delegating the profile information to civicrm is the
way to achieve this.

Civi can hook into the drupal signup (I already have this working) to
collect the information as you decide.  Civi is also customisable in
terms of the information you can collect.  It also does nice things in
terms of profiles for organisations, etc.

Is their any documentation on what drupal6 can actually do with regard
profiles?  The links I can find are not very encouraging:
http://drupal.org/node/276309
http://drupal.org/project/advanced_profile

James

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