Under the covers of Drupal Commons - the "Instant Community" distribution
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The document discusses Drupal Commons, a community-focused platform created by Acquia to facilitate online collaboration and content management. It outlines features such as content creation tools, user relationships, analytics, and customization options for community engagement, with a focus on retaining Drupal's flexibility. The document also highlights Acquia's managed service offerings and the open-source nature of Drupal Commons, encouraging community contributions and collaboration.
Under the covers of Drupal Commons - the "Instant Community" distribution
- 1. Under the covers of Drupal Commons Community Powered. Innovation. Jay Batson Bryan House Co-Founder Sr. Director Marketing Acquia, Inc. Acquia Inc. @batsonjay @bryanhouse
- 2. Introduction Jay Batson –Product owner, Drupal Commons –Co-founder, Acquia
- 3. Organizations are Building Communities
- 4. Symantec
- 5. Data.gov.uk
- 6. Data.gov.uk - Ideas List
- 7. These organizations built on Drupal subassemblies
- 8. But many really just to choose wheels, color, & interior
- 9. Community Feature Sets Have Stabilized content users permissions Intel blogs & wikis taxonomy UK Gov Sony free tagging social design networks NY Senate Symantec groups / RSS forums social analytics ranking
- 10. Drupal Commons Combines These Elements Intel UK Gov Sony Drupal Commons NY Senate Symantec
- 11. Where Can You Get It? Free sandbox – http://commons.acquia.com – Provides end-user experience Free download – http://acquia.com/drupal-commons – Do this to explore admin interface, code, try more modules, etc.
- 12. Packaging Drupal Install Pro le – You start fresh Lots of setup to be done – Try it out using Acquia DAMP! Creates two Features – Commons Core Not enabled by default. – Commons Noti cation (Didn’t want to assume mailing capability) Uses the Fusion theme – From TopNotchThemes – Uses skinr for theme controls E.g. change default page widths – Intentionally minimalist graphical design
- 13. Possible New Home, PageBG (6.x-1.2) © Acquia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- 14. Foundation Drupal 6.x – Not formally Acquia Drupal Internal decision to NOT synchronize release timing – But includes all the same modules Including Acquia Network Connector – Enhanced, one-click enabling via Feature Drupal 7? – Probably a ways out... – Many module dependencies
- 15. Information Architecture Four key functional areas – Content and collaboration – People and relationships – Personalized user experience – Community management & analytics
- 16. Content Content creation tools Implementation notes – Organic Groups – Content types provided: – CCK, Views Group, blog, document, discussion, wiki, notice, event, – Imagecache poll – Shoutbox – Image handling via image elds – Tagadelic + imagecache presets – WYSIWYG + Better Needs work Formats (no lightbox, full-size, ...) – Drupal Wiki – Input format clashes still exist – Freelinking – Drupal Wiki mostly for tagging UI Let’s look!
- 17. People & Relationships Community user features Implementation notes – User pro les – Drupal core pro les + – User relationships additional elds – Heartbeat – No user badges – Userpoints Let’s look!
- 18. Personalization & Page Layout Customizable layouts Implementation Notes – Panels used on most – Panels for: pages Home, dashboard, group home, – Selected via context pro le, and others Some views pages Subscriptions via noti cations Changing default panel layouts means paying attention when Bookmarks via Flags installing new releases Let’s look!
- 19. Community Management, Analytics Participation metrics to track engagement – Quant & Charting modules Also included: – Google Analytics module Not enabled by default Also, “Featured” content Let’s look!
- 20. Acquia Network Connector Adds functionality to your Commons site – Faceted Search – Content Recommendations – Mollom spam protection Let’s look!
- 21. Design Goal: Retain Drupal Normalcy Keep it Drupal, keep it exible Don’t make it hard to install / use other Drupal modules – LDAP, Active Directory – Marketing automation – CRM – Enterprise data sources
- 22. General Goodness Admin menu Rules Ctools Jquery UI Date/Time, Calendar Vertical Tabs Devel Flags Messaging Noti cations Password Policy Skinr (for Fusion) Strongarm Token
- 23. What Didn’t We Get To? Projects Community tagging Groups enhancements Hundreds of other things – Subgroups – Video – Per-group custom – More email noti cation homepage layout options – Per-group content type – Popular content block selection – Private messaging Homebox (user- – Shoutbox enhancements, con gurable Dashboard) Facebook-y UI – But, it’s ready! – ... More sophisticated Go community! document management
- 24. Our roadmap? Community-driven.
- 25. How To Be A Community Contributor Join the community conversation – http://commons.acquia.com – Questions, discussions, documentation, help Bug reports / real issues at drupal.org – http://drupal.org/project/issues/commons Biggest needs: – Disaggregate the one-big-feature – Per-group customizability
- 26. Commons Is Open Source. Acquia sells: Commons as a “managed service” – Use it; don’t manage it – Private cloud space + Acquia Network + Remote Administration – Remains fully-customizable – Scales to support large communities Or, for on-premises deployments – Acquia Network (+ optional Remote Administration) – 24x7 coverage with de ned SLAs Implementation assistance – 1-week, xed-cost implementation 24 hours theming, customization, training
- 27. Partners For More Help Social Business Global SI partners Strategy partners Drupal Development partners
- 28. Community Powered Innovation Built for your community by the Drupal community Powering your community using the power of our community Driving your innovation by leveraging Drupal’s innovation