I'm trying to put together a 2006 version of http://planet-soc.com/ -- a community site for Summer of Code participants. Because the program officially kicks off Tuesday, I would really, really appreciate any help people could give in solving these. This will be a Drupal installation that will get a lot of publicity in outside media outlets, but only if I can pull everything together quickly enough so there aren't 40 "spin-off" sites because this one doesn't offer enough stuff. ;(
There are two important features I would like to get implemented and I'm currently stuck on:
1. Aggregation: A lot of members have external blogs and such and don't want to maintain their content in two places (perfectly understandable). I'm looking for a solution that allows members with proper permissions to create feeds (these need to be nodes so they can be assigned to organic groups), and then resulting posts from those feeds get created as nodes on PlanetSoC and similarly placed under the given group.
I've done some looking into aggregator2 module, which I've heard good things about, but so far have had no joy in getting either the 4.6 or the 4.7 version to work. I'm a developer, so I'm not adverse to troubleshooting, creating patches, etc. but I just wanted to query the community and find out if I'm totally barking up the wrong tree or if there's something that would meet these needs more efficiently.