This was a breakout discussion held during the Drupalcon 2008 Boston conference on March 5, 2008. This discussion tracks the progress of a number of concurrent Drupal development projects focusing on enabling PEG (public, educational and government) Access centers to utilize Drupal for their organization.
The video was not so good, so we just have the audio. Below are some notes from the conversation.
present: Jacob Redding, Eric Goldhagen (Open Flows), Janele Robinson (WXXI - Rochester, NY), Forrest Mars (MNN), Peter Bull (WGBH), Emily Frazier (CCTV - Vermont), Jason Daniels (Medfield.TV), Steve Hanson (Cruiskeen Consulting LLC), Joe Golden (Triangl.us), Andrew Morton (KPSU/Station module)
---------- 0 - 1.55 - Jacob Redding tells backstory of getting involved with MNN. In 2006 the desire was to create an internal staff system for 1)equipment reservation 2)scheduling shows 3)contact/client management 4)reporting.
1.55 - A partnership forms between MNN and Open Flows (Eric Goldhagen). The reason the project adopted Drupal was 1) sound architecture 2) supportive/active development community 3) future thinking; modular and extend able.
3.30 - Mention of the DigitalBicycle project and the contact between MNN and Lowell.
4.05 - The one group missing from the conversation is DeProduction, from Denver. Jacob mentions that the group has Drupal working for 1) member management 2) encoding programs from Final Cut for the web and TV using Drupal tools. While the modules are funky they are working for 30% of the time.
5.00 - Eric Goldhagen from Open Flows talks about his excitement with the collaboration already underway. Currently his modules for MNN are being developed on Drupal 4.7 and is committed to bringing them to Drupal 5.
6.15 - Open Flows has committed to using CiviCRM and especially the CiviNode module.
7.10 - Future reporting may be done with BIRT
7.30 - Janele has a goal for his station to move towards Drupal 6.0
9.45 - Forrest says that MNN is seeking to use Drupal to pull in scheduling info over the web.
10.30 - Peter illustrates the outline for the WGBH migration to Drupal, a 2 phase process.
11.00 - Emily wants to ensure that we leverage these modules in the community to drive support and usability and make them user and admin friendly. Take things to the next level.
11.30 - Steve Hanson runs a Drupal shop in Wisconsin and is redesigning the website for Palo Alto and wants to leverage existing modules rather than custom code development.
12.30 - Joe Golden describes the PEGevent module that is currently powering CCTV in Vermont. Walks us through a demo of inserting a program. Shows scheduling and creating rerun blocks. Exporting his schedule to the playback system Maestrovision. The system allows the ability to search a 25,000 program archive. Air Time reporting done in PERL.
20.00 - Eric begins to demo the Open Flow modules - a reservation system, member management, inventory (class scheduling and reservations coming soon).
23.15 - MNN terminology for a "project". Project is a node & organizational contact in CiviCRM.
24.40 - Eric's goal is to have operators of the MNN system use Drupal exclusively and CiviCRM is running behind the scenes.
26.50 - Are the Open Flow modules totally dependent upon CiviCRM? Yes....but
28.40 - Andrew Morton describes the Station Module as it was designed for College Radio and it's relevance for Public Access.
29.30 - The challenges of coordinating these projects with their crossover.
30.30 - Janele expresses the limits of front end design when working with Drupal
32.30 - WE WANT THE WEBSITE TO DO EVERYTHING. Internally for staff and externally as a public interface
33.30 - Joe and Eric talk about trying to find and define the basic node fields necessary for these custom modules.
34.30 - What are the fields that need to connect?
35.00 - How do we best address the overlaps and redundancy in the concurrent development projects?
37.00 - Some of the benfits of sticking with the Drupal community
37.40 - ** A SINGLE DRUPAL INSTALL PROFILE FOR PEG ACCESS CENTERS **
41.30 - ** Considering the Knight Foundation as a funding source for the PEGSpace project. They have mentioned specific Drupal centric community projects during this year's Drupalcon. **
44.10 - sustainable funding, and creating a viable future for PEG
47.45 - What does the future look like for these projects?
48.15 - This single Drupal install profile should integrate with various playback systems. Through Emily's work with the Alliance for Community Media's Server Standards group there may be the ability to get the file and format standards necessary for Drupal to integrate with a PEG center's playback system.
49.40 - continue to follow this discussion on http://groups.drupal.org/pegspace
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