WSF2008

It turns out this is now built into

http://drupal.org/project/nodeprofile

Resolution

So, you're the latest Agaric intern (or a founder who's forgotten everything) and you need to put a client on a new server, and you want to continue using the Agaric repository system.

You've found the right page.

Resolution

If you have to begin at the beginning (but not all the way at the beginning) include this first command, throwing in sudos as required throughout:

apt-get install subversion

Agaric procedure for taking a site that was sharing a Drupal codebase with a bunch of other sites standalone.

Download a new Drupal. http://drupal.org/project/drupal

SVN export the current agaric-sites/5/project-name/trunk/sitename.com directory to replace (and rename as) default.

Check the whole thing in.

How do I import languages to translate the base of drupal?

Go to http://drupal.org/project/translations and download them.

Untar (unzip) your language translations.

Then head on over to your Administer » Site Configuration » Localization page and click import (/en/admin/settings/locale/language/import)

You do not even have to enable the language first:

Apparently, i18n and locale have no way of translating user-entered values for site slogan, site name, and mission statement!

Resolution

All text such as mission and slogan and title should go in themes with a t() function so they can be translated.

This is confirmed to work in Drupal 5. Anything you throw into a <?php print t('Translate this.'); ?> will show up in the Localization manage strings administration, admin/settings/locale/string/search

For the World Social Forum 2008 web site, we want people to be able to use an autocomplete freetagging taxonomy field to add an organization to their user profile that they can access when registering.

Looks like the subform_elements module will be the way to go.

Resolution

From [[WSF2008 site specifications v4]]

Again there can be various such hub sites, but the need for hub sites conveying social forum identity is there, whereas the idea of a “single networking site” will be increasingly unrealistic given the high level of quality of various networking sites

Really?

James wrote something on your Wall.

What should users of WSF2008 be able to do to list themselves and their event on a map? What can be pre-filled? Do we want people to type in countries? Province-level geopolitical entities? Villages? What can the Google Maps API take, and from where? How can we try to ensure it fails gracefully, and falls back to the closest approximation of the location it can find.

Right now the plan is to do what location module lets us, but I don't know if this has been tested worldwide.

From a Skype conversation:

we are in a site where organisation is not an entity so organisations only exist as list of people profile , declared independently by each person
Benjamin Melançon 5:16 PM
Exactly.
5:16 PM
It would be a click or two away of course, but not displayed there.
Pierre George 5:16 PM
there is a need i think to give directory service to the users
5:17 PM
who are the people form my organisation, form my network form my city ... you can find a start of this in wsf2008.net
Benjamin Melançon 5:17 PM

Pierre George 4:39 PM
i call it a vision...it is not a functionnal spec .....it is a way to communicate
i do not know if and how it can be implemented in drupal .. i am basically trying to meet some concerns of pluralism - horizontality - decentralizasion - accountability etc...
Benjamin Melançon 4:41 PM
Well one part that would be good to work out-- do we ask for real names or not? We can't enforce it, but we can encourage people to use their full name to log in
Pierre George 4:41 PM
it makes sense ... because that how they know each other