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CiviActions is a proud sponsor of the upcoming BADCamp (Bay Area DrupalCamp) in Berkeley the weekend of October 10th and 11th. As I’ve said before, CivicActions is really excited to help make these events happen with our sponsorship and our team’s participation. DrupalCamps are a great opportunity for folks to learn more about Drupal, organize to work on projects and modules, and also to recruit.
Four years ago at Telephone Bar in NYC, Noel Hidalgo and I talked about an idea to run an IRC back channel during the presidential debates . This morning I saw a tweet from him about remixing the debates and reminded him of our idea. He has now blogged about something very cool. Current TV and Twitter have teamed up and will be aggregating debate related tweets and displaying them on Current TV.
CivicActions is a proud sponsor of DrupalSouth ; the New Zealand Drupal Event for 2008. DrupalSouth will bring NZ’s Drupal community together for the first NZ-wide Drupal event and the first ever DrupalCamp in NZ. A collection of individual Drupal professionals in Christchurch, New Zealand are organizing the event, including our very own Bevan Rudge . Bevan will be presenting on Google Maps in Drupal; The Hub Map , in which he will showcase the Hub Map , and talk about implementing Google maps mashups in Drupal.
Here is a little tip that will make your life easier, especially the first time you go down the road of setting up CiviCRM’s CiviContribute forms for a website where anonymous users will be making donations (not anonymous donations, just users that are not logged in). When setting up CiviContribute you need to grant access via the Drupal User Access to “make online contributions” to anonymous users, AND you also need to add an ACL to CiviCRM for “Everyone” to access the profile you are using for online donations.
Last week Andy Laken asked me if there was a way to aggregate only select bookmarks from a group of users that would prevent an “unauthorized” user from posting a bookmark to the pool. The aggregated bookmars would then be published ona website. After a little bit of thinking and some exploration while on the phone, we figured it out. Here is a quick and dirty recipe for creating a group bookmark feed from delicious. Get everyone delicious accounts
News of what appears to be a distributed, spontaneous action against the new video game “Spore” because of the DRM included with the game has been spreading around the web since yesterday (when I first heard about it from Fred Benson of Free Culture ) , and the action seems to be growing.
I’m working on a site that will launch soon that features some social networking functionality, including friend lists. We are using the Buddylist2 module and while there are some default blocks for things like “My Buddies” that show a user their buddies, there was not a similar block that would show one user another user’s buddies. We were able to create a custom view with the argument “Buddylist2: Nodes author is buddy of UID” that used the following custom argument handling code:
A recent study on social networking came to my attention yesterday and it sparked a discussing with Bevan that we vowed to continue on the blog. The study which surveyed 13,000 adults between 18 and 65 in 17 developed nations found that 58% did not know what social networking is (30% in the US).