Before you start

Dear All,

I am working for a NGO and we give grants to other orgzanizations. As a result of grants sometimes we recieve documents, photoes, video and audio files. At the moment we are storing them in various places (digitalized and non-digitalized). As of digitalized files, they are stored in various Hard Disks and sometimes it is hard to find some information. As of non-digitalized information, they are taking lots of shelf spaces. We are thinking of standard formats to digitalize documents, videos and photoes.

I have looked for existing web software that does this, and so far have pulled a blank. There is lots of good gallery software. There is lots of good forum software. I have found nothing that tightly integrates the two. I'm hoping that the node nature of drupal will allow me to create such a site.

My situation:
I have an archive of 100,000 photos taken over a 35 year span of a school. I want to use this archive to build an alumni community, or more likely an intertwined set of communities. Over the span of time there were about 5000 students. I don't expect that more than half of them will log in.

I want to:
* Organize into a hierarchy of folders organized by year and event.
* Do the usual gallery stuff of thumbnail pages, filmstrip pages, intermediate and large images.
* Each folder has a forum for discussion. Each photo has a thread for discussion, initially populated with the title and caption. Each folder has assigned an iconic image from the folder's images.

Much of the discussion is going to be on topics that are not directly connected to an image, but may be connected to the more general event.

* Additional forum folders that are not connected to photos

* Ability for users to add metadata to photos. What year? Who is it? Where?

Hi,

Sorry for putting this as such a generic question. I placed this in before you start as I am searching for web software best fit for my website idea.

I am looking to build a site where users can post items for sale. I would like to be able to customize listing preview fields (i.e. product link title includes name, location, price..).

The sale process will NOT be handled through the site, it will simply be a point-of-contact. May include contact info for a 'click here to contact seller' button.

Hello,

I am going to run a website that will allow members to add business cards of their own or others companies.
They can add: company title, description, offer and logo and offer photos.
That business cards and offers have to be able to be commented and rated by visitors.

Would drupal be reliable for me? Which drupal version and modules should I use?

I am trying to figure out how to do this in Drupal 7. I want anonymous visitors to enter their email (so we can store and send newsletters and promotions), and some info/comments that we want to aggregate and display.

It looks like I would use Webforms and Views, but I want to use the most basic tools required. Any suggestions?

Hello,

I am trying to create a website that will be centered around forms and form reports. I have been able to create the forms easily, but the reports are a different story.

I am trying to find a way to compile the results of the forms using simple mathematical operations (sum up columns, divide, ect.) into reports.

I tried to use Views Calc, but it does not work on D7. Could anyone tell me if this would suit my needs?

I have also tried Webform and Webform reports.

Any suggestions our insights would be appreciated.

Thanks.