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Developing Community Websites with Drupal

Configuration, Set-Up & Performance

Developing Community Websites with Drupal

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

Room:

tags

community | build your own online community | social networking

Drupal has long been touted as a system that provides the necessary "plumbing" to build community-oriented websites. However, it is not immediately obvious, even to developers with some experience how one gets from a vanilla Drupal installation to creating a sophisticated community with complex interactions and different types of users.

In this presentation we aim to cut straight to the heart of the matter, present what we've learned over the years building social networks with Drupal talking about what is great, what is not that great and what greatness is in store for Social Networking with Drupal 7.

We look at how to form groups, represent relationships between users, keep track of user activities, allow users to create, share and highlight content they are interested in, be notified of such changes and many more issues.

If you ever:

  • wondered how can you effectively use modules like Organic Groups
  • pondered the intricacies of activity streams and the relative merits of the various modules that can help with this
  • puzzled over how best to represent friends and other types of relationships
  • dreamed of a brighter future ahead with Drupal 7

then this presentation is for you.

Presenters:

Ronald's bio:
Ronald has been working with Drupal for over 3 years and has built lots of different kinds of community websites, from travel community websites, company intranets and small, very specific community sites that satisfy the needs of tiny, specific groups - the kind of stuff Facebook just can't handle. Before working with Drupal he studied artificial communities during his PhD and as a Research Fellow and modeled things like trust, relationships, reputation, norms in weird notations like Z.

John's bio:
John had his first taste of Drupal almost 3 years ago and has been drinking the kool-aid ever since; helping many organisations including the BBC, Amnesty International to build community and social publishing sites. Recently he's been exploring distributed social networking, and investigating how Drupal could enable us to start connecting our networks together to fight the silo and privacy problems we're seeing with Facebook and other proprietary social networks.

Resources

HI, When I submitted the

12. July 2010 - 7:56

HI,

When I submitted the session

http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/communitysocial-networking-website-to...

I didn't know you had also submitted

http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/developing-community-websites-drupal-...

Is it not the following up of
ttp://groups.drupal.org/node/45468
http://groups.drupal.org/node/53268
And the user's stories
http://goo.gl/mod/1Djb

Should we not work together on that ?

Jean-Baptiste Ingold
+ 33 6 24 78 29 22

JB Ingold

HI Jean-Baptiste Thanks for

16. July 2010 - 9:37

HI Jean-Baptiste

Thanks for your post and email.

I'll chat with John and Ronald and see if there's something we can do together (although I'm the Director at BrightLemon this project is now run on voluntary time so it's very much a democratic decision!).

Longer term I think there definitely is scope for working together (and with other Drupalistas) on a distribution for online communities (although we'll have to wait and see what is realeased in Drupal Commons). I'm certain there is enough room in the market place though - either functionality wise or via different specialisms/verticals to support a number of Drupal based distributions that address the rapid development and deployment of Drupal based online communities.

Here in London, we have been building and presenting on online communities and social networks for a number of years now and are distilling that experience into something of general use to the Drupal community.

Let's keep the ball rolling - presentation-wise but also development-wise.

Regards
Leon

leontong.brightlemon

HI Jean-Baptiste Thanks for

16. July 2010 - 9:40

HI Jean-Baptiste

Thanks for your post and email.

I'll chat with John and Ronald and see if there's something we can do together (although I'm the Director at BrightLemon this project is now run on voluntary time so it's very much a democratic decision!).

Longer term I think there definitely is scope for working together (and with other Drupalistas) on a distribution for online communities (although we'll have to wait and see what is realeased in Drupal Commons). I'm certain there is enough room in the market place though - either functionality wise or via different specialisms/verticals to support a number of Drupal based distributions that address the rapid development and deployment of Drupal based online communities.

Here in London, we have been building and presenting on online communities and social networks for a number of years now and are distilling that experience into something of general use to the Drupal community.

Let's keep the ball rolling - presentation-wise but also development-wise.

Regards
Leon

leontong.brightlemon

Hi, guys - Now that Acquia

21. August 2010 - 15:46

Hi, guys -

Now that Acquia has released Drupal Commons (http://drupal.org/project/commons ), would it be worth you and I having a brief phone call before your session to help you learn a bit more about Commons, so you can answer any questions about it if you get asked?

Please RSVP if you wish.
Thanks
Jay Batson,
co-founder, VP, Acquia

batsonjay