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Onboarding is the process where site owners help new site members to orient themselves and take some important initial steps toward becoming full-fledged members of the site. This process is critical in various websites created with Drupal, as it smooths the user experience.
Whitney Hess wrote that "[m]ost companies think that getting people to sign up is the ultimate challenge, but what about getting them oriented to your site and actually using it? That process of helping people get started is called onboarding, and it’s crucial that you give it the attention it deserves."
The goal of this project is to build a flexible, configurable system for helping Drupal site owners build onboarding processes custom to their needs.
Examples of possible onboarding actions for a conference website, for example, include:
- Buy your ticket
- Buy some training
- Fill in your profile
- Submit sessions
- Vote on sessions
- Submit bofs
- Vote on bofs
- Find other people who have similar profile fields
- etc.
Seedling is a module for building distributions based on the Lullabot 5-step drupal distributions method. To be clear this is not to generate an installation profile or a perfect, sustainable drupal distribution by any means. Here are some videos of how to use it (or use Drush since it's a Back up and Migrate add-on):
It then saves the database in the files folder in /seedling/
Then it copies your entire site structure sans a bunch of folders and files like settings.php (obviously its removed!)
Then it downloads the file to you as a tar
You take the tar and throw it up on another server / localhost environment and run through a typical drupal installation process
You now have a perfect clone of the original, which can be cloned via the same process and passed on which can be cloned via the same process and...you get the point