indymedia

Tom from Indymedia Scotland has put together a collection of modules which will put together a starter site for anyone wanting to move over to Drupal for their Indymedia Site

They can be found here http://drupal.org/project/imc_alba

We also have a full distribution stored at http://github.com/tomm/drupal-indymedia-alba

So I agree for the most part with the idea that we don't necessarily need an install profile so much as a bunch of documentation on how to set-up a Drupal based IMC.

I'm not sure if this would be super helpful for the IMC's that have next to no tech related help, but at least if we had a set of default procedures and workflows we could utilize this in order to set-up a site for them without having to spend a lot of time deliberating over the best way to do something within drupal.

I'm working on synthesizing some of the lessons learned (and still being learned) as twincities.indymedia.org deals with the huge traffic associated with the RNC protests and the brutal police response.

Check out the wiki page on docs.indy - feedback and additions welcome!

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Sysadmin/DrupalForAMajorConvergence

Quick post to let Indymedia folks know that the Knight Drupal Initiative, hosted as another group here on g.d.o, is taking applications. I don't think this has been crossposted yet. I personally would be interesting in working with people on Indymedia-benefiting proposals.

^{benjamin, Agaric Design Collective}

As a result of the recent TechMeet meeting that happened last Sunday, it has been decided to revive the Imc-CMS discussion and to try and pick a CMS to focus indymedia developer attention to.

I volunteered to try and coordinate it with whoever else wants to help.

They are trying to have this info ready by December 1st.

The other teams are the IndyPlone and a lot of IMCistas trying to develop a code-base from scratch with CakePHP.

The goal:

• work on an environment they assigment for and investigate it
• collect the pros and cons

Here are some reports from DrupalCon Barcelona!

• We had representatives of uk/nl, hungary, be, indybay & beirut imc present -- the conference as a whole had almost 450 people. of course we also met up with local barcelona techies who do use drupal -- they were just too busy to make it to drupalcon so we met up at a hacklab ;)

• The new Drupal 6, CCK, Views, FormAPI, Panels, etc. will be awesome -- but not without your help ;) as always you can help with user interface suggestions, documentation, testing, etc. etc.

The 1.0 release of the indymedia cities module is available. Please try it out and file any bugs/feature requests/support requests. Thanks...

http://drupal.org/project/indymedia_cities

http://worcesteractivist.org/wiki/Building_an_Indymedia_site_on_Drupal

This link was forwarded to me and originated from the Columbus, OH IMC list.

I've made some modifications to the nmoderation module to allow for indymedia style moderation in drupal. It isn't ideologically 'nice' mainly due to the way parts of the drupal core are implemented. I have contacted the author of nmoderation about getting the patches into the module, but he hasn't responded, so we might want to look at forking it into a seperate moderation module - people's thoughts?

Instructions:
1) install drupal. 4.7.3 (or possibly a later 4.7 branch). I think CVS/4.8 changes a few fundamentals, so this is unlikely to work.

2) install the following modules: nmoderation, views, votingapi, taxonomy_block. You will want others for other IMC functionality; these are the ones you need for moderation and access of moderated content.

Given how unreliable docs.indymedia.org has been - maybe we should move some of the information over to this group.
Also it would give everyone here a chance to comment on the work done so far.

What does everyone else think ?

Regards,
Isaac
indymedia.org.nz