[Imc-alternatives] questions about indy-alt implementation

[john duda]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 02:05:03PM -0500, Josh Marcus wrote:
> 
>    maps!!  ok maps has excited me.  maybe we should make a drupal module
>    to display a map of registered users and/or organizations.  and then
>    that would be a fun way to explore who else is on the site, and where
>    people are located, and to connect to locals.  whoo.  We would need to
>    ask for address information, but just city, state, country information
>    would be enough.  We could just use the google maps interface to keep
>    it simple.

maps are pretty easy with drupal.

Installing the following on drupal 5:
	GMap,GMap Location, Location (enabled), GMap Views Integration, Location Views
Resulted in being able to do this page:
	http://indyreader.org/locations/map
(does geocoding as well).

although we should switch to openlayers as soon as a module is available:
http://drupal.org/project/openlayers

-john


>    --j
> 
>    On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:38 PM, john duda <[1]john at manifestor.org>
>    wrote:
> 
>    On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:54:50PM -0500, Jay wrote:
>    > -- "Network" which is our "social justice networking" area where
>    > individuals and organizations will have profiles and use tools we
>    > provide to organize their own projects and collaborate with each
>    other.
> 
>      it would be helpful to know what these tools are.
> 
>    > Because of the way he categorized it (and maybe, if we add an
>    > opportunity to tag articles, depending on the tags he chooses), the
>    > article page would also offer links to News articles on the site
>    > about Solar power, articles in the Knowledge-base offering
>    > step-by-step instructions for building DIY solar projects, and to
>    > profie pages of individuals and organizations from the Network
>    > section who do solar work.
> 
>      ok, there's definitely going to be tagging. in fact, i just added
>      tagging to the site.  still need to make the related content show
>      up,
>      but it's a start.
> 
>    >
>    > >do we want
>    > >these pieces to be "structured", i.e. more like books with
>    chapters,
>    > >or just plain flat articles?
>    >
>    > Hmm.  I say we should steal liberally from the structure of WikiHow,
>    > Instructables and other similar things.  Whatever works for them,
>    > that's what we should do.
>    >
> 
>      hmmm...wikihow's editing interface is kind of intense.  i like the
>      structure of steps and warnings, but somehow it just seems like a
>      wikimedia hack.  i don't think users should see the syntax...just
>      add
>      steps.  i'll play around with this and see what i can do.
> 
>    >
>    > The idea of what actually will appear on the "network wire" is still
>    > a bit fuzzy, but I think it would inculde a list of the most recent
>    > or most recently updated profiles, and maybe posts from forums or
>    > from an eventual "wants/needs" section (sort of like a
>    > craigslist/classifieds section for alternatives projects).  I like
>    > the idea of the smiling faces of the most recent people who have
>    > posted profiles appearing on the main page as well as on the
>    networking page.
>    >
> 
>      so basically, what we're starting with here is user profiles. we
>      can
>      offer blogs and forums here as well, but maybe we should also ask
>      user/orgs for an existing blog url feed, and we can grab content
>      they
>      are posting elsewhere.
>      it would be definitely cool to have the organic groups here, so you
>      could do things like make a network of infoshops part of the
>      alternatives imc.
>      also, maps! lots of maps!
> 
>    -john
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