[Imc-drupal-dev] migrating from dadaIMC to drupal

[Ben West]

Hi All,

I set up the current Drupal-based St. Louis IMC at stlimc.org.  It's
lacking some necessary pieces, but I do use the Drupal taxonomy module
mentioned by Mitchell to categorize content based on topic, locale,
type, etc.  Here are notes I wrote about creating this Drupal IMC:

http://stlimc.org/how-new-stlimc-website-was-built
http://stlimc.org/drupal-development-indymedia
http://stlimc.org/drupal-modules-used-stlimc

I also archived the dadaIMC site into static HTML files, which I've
documented here:

http://stlimc.org/migration-todo-archivestlimcorg

Sorry for the scattershot nature of these notes.

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:55 AM, szczym<szczym at obin.org> wrote:
> Helo Aaron
>
> In drupal you categorize content based on taxonomies (its one of
> wonders of the blue drup). On start in imc-alba you have division of
> content between Category (like topic) and Section (like Other media,
> Commentary ect.).
> Its located here: admin/content/taxonomy/list
>
> Local and World you could make by adding vocabulary "location" and
> adding terms to it. Remember that your content might be syndicated to
> other websites or appear in other context than Arkansas so it might be
> better to make terms "Arkansas" and texas, US, Europe, ect. instead of
> Local" and "Elsewhere" becouse it will have wrong meaning out site of
> your website (taxonomy terms are exported in rss too).
>
> You display various taxonomies by filtering them in views panels.
>
> cheers!
>
>  On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Squash
> Capitalism<spun_cabbage at riseup.net> wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> My name is Aaron, and I am working with Arkansas Indymedia, trying to
>> revive our collective. We have been pretty much defunct for a few
>> years now, and the root of much of our problem was the constant
>> trouble we had with the dada CMS. I am trying to build a test drupal
>> site using the IMC Alba install profile, and I have it up and running
>> successfully, but the first issue I am running into is that the
>> Newswire with IMC Alba-based drupal isn't split into "Local" and
>> "Elsewhere" like it was in dada. Is there a way to split the newswire
>> in the IMC Alba drupal so that it has a "Local" and "Elsewhere"
>> section so that when I run the migration module the articles from our
>> dada database will go into the new drupal site in their respective
>> sections?
>>>
>> Also, I am completely new to drupal, and any type of advice about
>> setting up an IMC with drupal and migrating from dadaIMC to drupal
>> would be much appreciated.
>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Aaron Thomason
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>>
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