[Imc-drupal-dev] looking to clone setup of indymedia.be

[Andrew McNaughton]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, robbt wrote:

> The other instance is other press vs. original articles.
> Many people who are contributing to indymedia just copy and paste
> mainstream news articles into the site which violates copyright but also
> just shows the lack of time/energy/dedication people have to writing
> stuff, at the same time it's better to have a place to discuss these
> articles than nothing. And perhaps a way of allowing people to tag them.

An idea I've been mulling over for a while is to add a separate node type 
for remotely published articles, with slightly different behaviour to 
normal story nodes.

I first thought about this for an activist site which lists publications 
which mention their campaign, but the  same thing could be useful for 
IMC's for the reasons you cite.

I imgaine that a user should be able to enter the URL of the remotely 
published article, plus the text of that article, and the remote 
publication date.  The article's public display should by default only 
include the short teaser, with a link to the remote article, but in the 
event that the remote article is taken offline, it would be nice to be 
able to make the whole lot visible at the administrator's discretion. 
Having the full text available would also be good for searching for 
articles based on the local database.  I imagine that indexes of remotely 
published items probably want to be listed by remote publication date 
rather than the time it was added to the local collection, though both 
might be useful, and should be accessible, with the default option being 
configurable.

> Another area that could use work is the events module.
> It would be really helpful if someone could develop an RSS feed for it.
> If I ever get around to actually coding for drupal this would probably
> be my first project, but there is so much to do just in terms of trying
> to keep up with development already happening.

RSS is Good, and probably easy, but for events iCal would be in many ways 
a more useful basis for syndication, particularly if it could be set up so 
you can recieve iCal even notifications, and (with some admin 
intervention) put them up on the site.  This would allow publication of 
events from eg. KOrganiser, Outlook, Apple iCal, etc, and publication back 
into the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar#Microsoft_Outlook

Looks like the event module does have iCal export, but not import. 
There's bugs somewhere between drupal's event.module and KOrganiser's 
import - I'm not familiar enough with iCal to say which.  commas and 
cariage returns in the description field need escaping.

Andrew



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