Deprecated - Social software and communities

Raven Brooks of BuyBlue.org is sponsoring development by CivicSpace Labs to enhance the Organic Groups module in order to support local sub-chapters. All work will be placed into Drupal CVS so the rest of the community may benefit. The following is an outline of BuyBlue’s requirements, as well as identified areas of work that would be of general use to the community at large, and our plan of action on each item. Any feedback other developers have in terms of strategy would be greatly appreciated! We want this functionality to be useful to all types of organic group implementations, from BuyBlue to groups.drupal.org.

Clarification of intent -- README ;)

BuyBlue Requirements

Local Spaces

Local spaces will essentially be a homepage for each chapter within the BuyBlue site. This will allow members to coordinate economic activism at a local level within their own states, cities, and communities.

There are two levels of chapters: official and unofficial. Official chapters need to have gone through a rigorous approval process and as such are afforded additional privileges, such as the ability to submit evidence about companies in the database, and also things like the ability to add a custom logo to their group home page.

chx froze the Summer of Code (SoC) 2006 thread upon which some good comments with regard to Groupware like calendar and Chapters and multi-sites had been posted and chx also mentioned

...comments will be removed and what's worthy will be moved to the book...

So, I thought it would be a good idea to copy and paste some of the groupware like calendar and chapters/multisites comments before they are potentially removed and deemed not worthy for moving to the book. Here they are, although it's not in the same easy-to-follow format as a forum. To compensate, I labeled each comment as follows:

Topic 1, Comment 1
groupware like calender

Topic 2, Comment 1
Chapters and mini-sites

...and so on. It's the best I could do. :)

Does anybody have any documentation for the contact_manager.module that they can share?

I tried Googling it on this site, CivicSpace's site, and on the net in general, but I can't find any good info.

My specific question is how do you set/use the Source field in contact_manager?
The Volunteer module relies on that also.

But I'd also like to know how to use the contact_manager in general.

If anybody could help me out, I'd really appreciate it.

I'm a relative newcomer to Drupal and PHP, and I have put together a Drupal site for a small high school, where we wish to use webforms to allow teachers to contact other teachers regarding specific students. So far, webform module seems very promising for this, however it would be very handy if it were possible to optionally CC additional support staff from the webform.

Is there a way to let all visitors see the posts in an organic group?

Near as I can tell, non-members of the group can't see the posts in the group. Posts marked "public" can be seen elsewhere, but not on the group page.

The organic group would be like a group blog. Group membership would only matter when authoring posts, not when reading them.

Hello,

I am somewhat new to drupal and am looking for ideas to best build a project site I am working on. I would like to offer users to each have their own webpage that they can edit - like a longer profile, but with unique custom fields that I define (about me, interests, etc.).

I would then like this linked as automatically as possible to a directory structure by country/state-province/city/userpage

So a user signs up
Builds their profile and are in san francisco, CA