Under the covers of Drupal Commons - the "Instant Community" distribution
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Under the covers of Drupal CommonsCommunity Powered. Innovation.
Bryan HouseSr. Director MarketingAcquia Inc.@bryanhouse
Jay BatsonCo-FounderAcquia, Inc.@batsonjay
Introduction
Jay Batson–Product owner, Drupal Commons–Co-founder, Acquia
Organizations are Building Communities
Symantec
Data.gov.uk
Data.gov.uk - Ideas List
These organizations built on Drupal subassemblies
But many reallyjust to choose
wheels, color, & interior
Community Feature Sets Have Stabilized
UK Gov
NY Senate Symantec
Sony
Intel blogs & wikis
groups /forums
socialranking
free tagging
users
social networks
permissions
taxonomy
design
RSS
content
analytics
Drupal Commons Combines These Elements
UK Gov
NY Senate Symantec
Sony
Intel
Drupal Commons
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.
PackagingDrupal Install Pro!le– You start fresh
Lots of setup to be done– Try it out using Acquia DAMP!
Creates two Features– Commons Core– Commons Noti!cation
Uses the Fusion theme– From TopNotchThemes– Uses skinr for theme controls
E.g. change default page widths– Intentionally minimalist graphical design
Not enabled by default.(Didn’t want to assume mailing capability)
© Acquia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Possible New Home, PageBG (6.x-1.2)
FoundationDrupal 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
Information ArchitectureFour key functional areas
– Content and collaboration
– People and relationships
– Personalized user experience
– Community management & analytics
ContentContent creation tools– Organic Groups– CCK, Views– Imagecache– Shoutbox– Tagadelic– WYSIWYG + Better
Formats– Drupal Wiki– Freelinking
Implementation notes– Content types provided:
Group, blog, document, discussion, wiki, notice, event, poll
– Image handling via image !elds + imagecache presets
Needs work(no lightbox, full-size, ...)
– Input format clashes still exist– Drupal Wiki mostly for tagging UI
Let’s look!
People & RelationshipsCommunity user features– User pro!les– User relationships– Heartbeat– Userpoints
Implementation notes– Drupal core pro!les +
additional !elds– No user badges
Let’s look!
Personalization & Page LayoutCustomizable layouts– Panels used on most
pages– Selected via context
Subscriptions via noti!cationsBookmarks via Flags
Implementation Notes– Panels for:
Home, dashboard, group home, pro!le, and othersSome views pages
Changing default panel layouts means paying attention when installing new releases
Let’s look!
Community Management, Analytics
Participation metrics to track engagement– Quant & Charting
modules
Also included:– Google Analytics
moduleNot enabled by default
Also, “Featured” content
Let’s look!
Acquia Network ConnectorAdds functionality to your Commons site– Faceted Search– Content Recommendations– Mollom spam protection
Let’s look!
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
General GoodnessAdmin menuCtoolsDate/Time, CalendarDevelFlags MessagingNoti!cationsPassword PolicySkinr (for Fusion)StrongarmToken
RulesJquery UIVertical Tabs
What Didn’t We Get To?ProjectsGroups enhancements– Subgroups– Per-group custom
homepage layout– Per-group content type
selection
Homebox (user-con!gurable Dashboard)– But, it’s ready!
More sophisticated document management
Community taggingHundreds of other things– Video– More email noti!cation
options– Popular content block– Private messaging– Shoutbox enhancements,
Facebook-y UI– ...
Go community!
Community-driven.Our roadmap?
How To Be A Community ContributorJoin 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
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
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