Hi Peter,
Peter Chauncy wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply Simon, I appreciate the situation,
> particularly at the finer end of geodata.
>
> Last time I looked CiviCRM just used the standard Drupal module.
>
> It is such a pain that we have to spend so much time working against
> ourselves. For example, in choosing to use drupal and going with their
> way of handling events, one has to turn away from other approaches
> (formally: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-rdfcal-20050929/;
> http://map.nodel.org/docs/nodedb.html - nice south park cartoons; I was
> looking for something the the evnt wiki, but its all a bit unstructured).
>
> I know you were looking at a CMS as more of a "content switchboard" a
> year or so ago. Its easy to imagine a customised rss feed of things that
> I am interested in that are near me. I know enough to know that it is
> easier to imagine than to implement. There is also the difficult, time
> consuming and unrewarding phase of nurturing a new product.
>
> How important is the calendar to your overall vision? Drupal is a fairly
> unintrusive framework that isn't too hard to customise, but maybe you
> don't want to be lumbered with the events calendar ?
The calendar function is actually very important for us as Mute sits
between so many communities that the cross fertilization is something
that we feel is needed.
We also need it in terms of the Networked Distribution Services being
developed for publication distribution, Ill raise this with the
Ubiscribe group in NL as they are looking at doing usability work.
Ciao
S
>
> Good luck in NL.
>
> Peter
>
> On 1/9/06, *Simon Worthington*
> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
>
> Peter Chauncy wrote:
> > Hi there. Firstly I would like to say I have only just logged on
> as a
> > new user. So far I am very impressed with what you have managed to
> > do. I would be keen to do some gash usability testing if that would
> > be useful.I was looking at the calendar and noted
> that it
> > was showing an event in Australia, which is fine and very interesting
> > of course. I am sadly very parochial and only want to see events that
> > are happening in London. So I looked at the filter and there doesn't
> > seem to be a way to filter by location. Looking at the input
> > page there isn't a separate entry facility for address/geo info at
> > all.Browsing the Drupal site, I see that some people
> have
> > tried to customise the event module itself
> > http://drupal.org/node/34504 others have used flexinode to modify
> > it. I can't find a single comprehensive description of what to
> > do.I am interested in your thoughts about this, whether
> > it is already "on the to do list" etc.Peter
> > />
> I appreciate your comments on the calendar and we could introduce a
> region taxonomy that relates to Mute; London, UK, Europe and on and out.
>
> We found the Drupal calendar not very well facilitated and at present
> all we could do was getting it running in the most basic ways.
>
> Soon well be exploring the civiCRM calendar functions and maybe these
> functions can help.
>
> Dealing with the calednar and geo location is a project in of itself and
> as i mentioned earlier the basic Drupal calendar is not so good
>
> Im at a development meeting in NL this weekend with a group called
> Ubiscribe so ill raise these issues.
>
> Simon
>
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