Drupal 6.x

The American Library Association is planning to move its current Online Communities service to a Drupal environment by June 2008. Successful completion of this phase may result in a longer-term contract to implement social networking features throughout the site.

Just throwing this out there... would it be possible to develop a flash template engine that would integrate an ActionScript-based flash template into drupal? Not being a php guy, I don't even know if this is possible. But I know that flash can load content dynamically with ActionScript, and it would sure up Drupal's design profile if there was a way to allow flash to harness drupal's database and administrative interface.

Just throwing it out there...

Anthony Pero

Hi fellow Drupalists.

I am a new user that still has to figure out a lot of things and would like to ask for you humble opinion on how I should plan my site.

The goal is to make a metafilter like site but for a niche community. The site is going to have the following sections.

Community weblog – All users can post a blog post here similar to how the blog content type works. Only rule is that the post is supposed to have at least one link in it. No taxonomy/categorization here.

Ask section – Users can post question here. Similar to above but without requirement to post a link. All questions have to belong to a category. Number of posts here will be restricted to once a day for every user. There might be some visual cue that the user is on the Ask section.

Project section – Users can post a blog post here that also can contain a picture, an mp3 or a link to their personal creative projects. Categories here but not the same as in the Ask section. (this section is to be developed at a later date, just planning for the future).

Chat section – This section works exactly as weblog or Ask section except that there is no posting restrictions, no moderation and preferably some visual cue that users are “off site” like a different background color. No categories.

Discussion forum for Codes module
project page: http://drupal.org/project/codes

DRUPAL DEVELOPER/PROGRAMMER WANTED

University of California’s International Research Advancement (IRA) creates and executes projects which develop global solutions through collaborative education and research. Convergence of Global Innovators (globalsolutions2008.com) is a lecture series IRA produces to expand UC Santa Barbara’s international outreach all over the world. IRA is currently building a web platform that enables researchers and industry professionals to connect.

Project
World-class university needs help in developing web platform for educators and researchers to connect and collaborate

Characteristics
• web2.0 social interaction (e.g. facebook.com)
• application space for collaboration (e.g. videoconferencing in speeddate.com)
• news aggregation, tagging, and discussion(e.g. fark.com)

We are looking to find the best people making this vision a reality. The criteria are:
• Considerable experience working as a Drupal developer/programmer
• Exceptional programming skills
• Capability to assume the role as a software architect
• An eye for design
• Responsibility to take web projects from the development phase to the final product
• Ability to implement workflow for entering and vetting new content

Education/Background:

I am working on a module that provides permalinks for nodes and comments. Redirecting node permalinks to the right node is no problem at all. Redirecting to the right comment becomes a bit more difficult, because how would one know at which page a comment is located? For flat views it's possible to fetch all the comments from the DB, sorted just like that's being done for node views and loop through them using PHP. When you encounter the requested comment you know the number of that specific comment for the node it belongs to.