[Imc-drupal-dev] a reportback from DrupalCon Barcelona 2007

[ekes]

mark burdett wrote:
> * 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.

I've started moving hidden.module to Drupal 6 ;) and am wondering about
a making it available to views for sites that do have it installed - I
still want to keep it independent so it will work for all sites.

>  I suggested 
> nodequeue module as a good replacement for this type of setup -- create 
> a nodequeue view for each area on your frontpage.

Think this is one that everyone that wants a "multiple list type" front
page should play around with - rather than the standard 'features'
column with 'newswire' column. With panels and nodequeue it should be easy.

> * Indymedia install profile.. ok it doesn't exist yet.  But we have a 
> lot of useful tools in place:
>   - hidden module provides transparent editorial process for both 
>     newswire and comments
>   - nodequeue module can be used to separate newswire, features, etc.
>   - panels and views can be used to build the various pages.
>   - content translation should be taken care of by i18n module?
>   - The main area to work on will be integrating something like Asset 
> Manager or whatever is "the" solution for building content types with 
> support for attaching and managing media files.

re: i18n there have been some issues with open translation
(disconnection from core locale system, default/chosen language fallback
and revision tracking). These should be fixed with so much moved into
core in Drupal 6 which makes me think we should focus efforts there.

I will defer to others, especially video folks about the 'best way' (TM)
for handling media. I'm happy to help if some folks give direction.
The immediate term fix for 'user expectation attach files' to 'works
with images are nodes' that I mentioned was
http://drupal.org/project/upload_image - it does have the issue of
duplicating originals.

> Going forward hopefully we can have some IRC meetings to coordinate work 
> on install profile etc.  which, at this point i suppose might be built 
> on Drupal 6..

Always up for irc meetings :)

> I am posting videos of the sessions I attended at
> http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject:%22drupalconbarcelona2007%22
> I didn't by any means attend all the best sessions, as there was already 
> a webcam in the main room.
> (still have some more to upload...)

Worth mentioning the NYObserver session (mentioned in the original mail,
but chopped from my quotes) is included in the videos here.

ekes

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