[imc-scotland-discussion] Website migration

[Anarcho Babe]

Hi,

I still feel there are some unresolved issues with the Drupal site.


1.) First of all the seperation of "submit an article" and "submit an  
image". Ideally people who submit pictures should be encouraged to write  
an article with it as well.

2.) There is also no automatic picture resizing.


3.) The next problem is that we do not have a server.


4.) There is still a huge error message popping up when submiting an  
article:


     * notice: Undefined property: nid in  
/home/infocouk/public_html/sites/all/modules/imc_alba/imceditor/imceditor.module  
on line 387.
     * notice: Undefined index: excl_mode in  
/home/infocouk/public_html/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor.module on  
line 639.
     * notice: Undefined index: excl_fields in  
/home/infocouk/public_html/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor.module on  
line 639.
     * notice: Undefined index: excl_paths in  
/home/infocouk/public_html/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor.module on  
line 639.
     * notice: Undefined index: simple_incl_fields in  
/home/infocouk/public_html/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor.module on  
line 691.
     * notice: Undefined index: simple_incl_paths in  
/home/infocouk/public_html/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor.module on  
line 691.

5.) we should only allow postings in English and Gaelic.

6.) before we switch everybody should be able to try out the editorial and  
administrative interface.

7.) instead of save it would need to read something like "publish your  
news"

8.) audio and video upload

9.) i miss the seperated newswire, the otherpress section and the search  
option as well as the mission statement, editorial guidelines etc.

10.) what about the hidden section?

11.) we would need to see if its possible to backdate articles.

12.) what about razorwire/breaking news ?

13.) I like what Belgium did to their frontpage, as to move away from the  
features and have also a subsections for resyndicated headlines from Blogs  
and press releases etc. we should be thinking of doing something similar -  
imho - like have syndicated headline from the ACE website or the Camcorder  
Guerillas atc.

14.) How would we move over the content? Would it be possible to do  
automatically?


cheerio Ulla



On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:11:25 -0000, Tom Morton <tom at infoseed.co.uk> wrote:

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> Hello friends,
>
> Last meeting we discussed the new website based on open source CMS
> drupal (www.drupal.org). I set up a test site at infoseed.co.uk so
> people could report bugs, make suggestions and so on.
>
> This is kind of a heads up so you all know that next meeting I will
> propose that we migrate to the new site. There are good reasons to make
> the switch:
>
> * Our current software, dadaimc, is unmaintained and completely
> stagnant. Unless our site is going to just fester we need to switch to
> an actively maintained content management system.
>
> * The drupal community is very active and so the programming burden of
> maintenance for IMC scotland in the future will be low, while we benefit
> from the drupal community's continuing work.
>
> * The new site has word processor style article editing, meaning that
> making text bold, italic, bullet pointed, numbered list, etc and
> inserting images and links is as easy as on a word processor.
>
> * The new editor interface is way less clunky, wasting less editors'  
> time.
>
> * Optionally supports openID login (http://openid.net/)
>
>
> Once we have switched to drupal it will then be much easier to work on
> new features for the site. For an idea of the kind of things indymedia
> sites have done with drupal, have a look at http://indymedia.be/en
>
> - --
> Tom
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