[imc-scotland-discussion] meetings

[Tom Morton]

chris wrote:
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> Meetings. I think one is overdue, more so me being at one. I am in
> Edinburgh over xmas so would like to meet folk for a bit chat.

I'm working 2pm-10pm every day until the 21st :-(

> There's a chance to do a workshop in Glasgow at the Reshuffle event. I
> can contribute to it but not sure what to do on my own.
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> My technical skills are improving slowly but from a very low base and
> low knowledge of the existing systems. Seems there's 3 options though:
> * keep on with DadaIMC

for the time being :)

> * join the Drupal IMC process

Here is the drupal IMC thing:

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/ImcDrupalDevDrupal5

I don't know if anyone uses it in the form available on that site. There 
are other drupal IMCs that are configured completely differently, with 
different custom modules, etc. For example http://indymedia.be

In my opinion the ImcDrupalDevDrupal5 work is insufficient to make a 
replacement for Dada as it stands. It lacks some of the more important 
features like WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) article editing, 
youtube style handling of videos, some editorial policy stuff, ...

When I get out of this awful christmas job of mine and have free time 
again I'd like to work on these and feed the results back into the 
drupal IMC dev. It may result in something useful.

> * join Ireland & Bristol with Oscait

Oscait might be worth a look. however, the IMC tech people decided with 
good reason to abandon the home-grown approaches like mir, sfactive, 
dada and instead climb on the shoulders of an open source CMS. This has 
many advantages. we don't need to maintain the universal low-level code 
which makes up the bulk of a CMS - only the small custom modules we 
write. We get access to the wealth of modules people have written for 
drupal. eg: I was looking for a solution to the youtube video problem. i 
searched for 'flash video' in the drupal module list and it turned out 
someone had already solved the problem.

> Discussions like these can be hellish, though. I suggest that we need to
> think hard and come up with a list of reuirements, improvements, wishes
> etc. Everything that we want our IMC 2.0 ;) to do. I've started one but
> don't have time to type it up this evening.

yes that would be useful

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Tom