Decision

Can't use Yahoo. No way to ask for the country (it replies with the country, but you can't ask for it) so no way to get lat-lon for country.

Woulda been cool though.

http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005626.html

Agaric moves on...

Resolution

Deep in this old thread, "Looking for internationalization use cases and application feedback" - http://drupal.org/node/88417 - a user wrote:

I'm not sure what I did wrong but the Language Switcher block failed to work on mine site. I've to use Translation block instead

Good enough for me to start out with Translation as the block, since they look identical anyway...

Resolution

Dear friends,

Here you have a proposal for the languages and translation issue. Of course, we'll have to discuss it in our next general chat (next Wednesday), but it'll be good to have an exchange this Saturday.

For tomorrow, I think we'll have at least to talk about :
- mapping,
- translation and languages.

But we'll surely other things to talk about...

In solidarity,

Christophe

About languages and translations in the website.

What are action groups / activity spaces

Pierre George 5:41 PM
i would not favor giving "genetic"rights
5:41 PM
firs come occupies the place
5:41 PM
i was thinking of a system of extending equal rights
Benjamin Melançon 5:42 PM
That's another question-- I would prefer everyone in a group to have rights to editing actions proposed by that group.
Pierre George 5:42 PM
but i understand there are no groups in that site ....
Benjamin Melançon 5:42 PM

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

Is there anything wrong with putting apache.pem in version control? I hope not.

I had to make it chmod 644 instead of something like chmod 600.

The symlinks in sites-enabled did not survive being put in version control-- they turned into physical files.

Resolution

location (API, module)
http://drupal.org/project/location

location.module supports proximity searches for content. Content (i.e., 'nodes') can be tagged with a physical snail mail location (whether full or partial). What number of location fields (e.g., 'street', 'city', 'postal code', 'country', 'province') are collected for each node type (and whether they are required or optional) is configurable in the default workflow for each node type.

As-yet unresolved: which users can add RSS feeds (to action groups, or to cities, or to countries?) and how this technically is done.

Resolution

Pierre George described it best:

there is a list of self declared organisation represetnative which is highlighted , anyway the organisation is not a structural object in this site ( contrary to wsfprocess.net ) - organisation are just mentions that people declare when they sign

Resolution

This will be implemented with an autocomplete taxonomy.