Drupal Social Initiative

Description: Working group to harmonise Social Networking functionality in Drupal

This group is specifically for organising, planning and working on Drupal projects being fostered by developers/architects interested in harmonising Social Networking functionality in Drupal. This group is also the focal point for organising BoFs, sprints and camps.

See the current plan at Drupal Social Initiative (Social API) and at Issues for Social API.

We have a Drupal Social Initiative Google Group.

We have a Drupal Social Initiative Trello space.

Make a request so we can add you to Drupal Social Initiative on GitHub so we can code together. And see issues at Issues for Drupal Social Initiative on GitHub

Make a request so we can add you to the Drupal Social Initiative Google Drive so that we can collaboratively create documents and diagrams.

For chat use https://join.skype.com/ah3MJ8jQVHWF or we can use irc://irc.freenode.net/#kendraio. But Skype is monitored more frequently.

Follow Drupal Social Initiative page on Google+ so that it's easy to invite you to our regular Hangouts.

Like the Drupal Social Initiative page on Facebook for some reason that we can't quite remember.

Please no job posts here. Use Drupal Jobs. Thanks.

The goal of the Drupal Social Initiative (Social API) is to harmonise Social Networking functionality in Drupal; provide more functionality to end-users; provide easier site creation and configuration to site administrators and developers; and enable easier module maintenance for developers.

Google funds Drupal Social API...

Posted by dahacouk on April 22, 2016 at 7:42pm

I am extremely excited to announce that Google has just announced that it is funding Valentin Sánchez to work on the Drupal Social API via Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2016:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5879646751031296/#5689...

I've set up this Google mailing list to celebrate:
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/drupal-social-initiative

And here are some other ways to participate in the project:
https://groups.drupal.org/social-initiative
https://www.drupal.org/project/social_api
https://github.com/drupalsocialinitiative

Social API - Harmonizing Social Networking services in Drupal

Posted by gvso on March 16, 2016 at 12:15pm

This node contains an initial description of how the Social API should work. For more info about the roadmap, refer to this node

How it will work

Seeking mentor for Google Summer of Code 2016 for Social API module

Posted by dahacouk on March 4, 2016 at 4:10pm

We are looking for a technical mentor for the Social API project for the GSoC (Google Summer of Code) 2016 to work alongside Daniel Harris. We are currently working to get the Social API module to be one of the projects that Google Summer of Code students will work on during this summer: https://groups.drupal.org/node/508466#project7 . Valentin Sánchez is interested in working on this project as the student.

Resource Guide: Social Media and Drupal

Posted by dahacouk on June 21, 2015 at 2:53pm

Someone created a great list of social networking resources for Drupal at Resource Guide: Social Media and Drupal

The Road to Barcelona 2015 (and everything in between and beyond)!

Posted by dahacouk on February 22, 2015 at 2:26pm

In order to get some momentum going I'm setting up Google Hangouts for every Wednesday at 15:15 UTC as events on the Drupal Social Initiative Google+ page. Of course people don't have to be on every Hangout and we can keep them short. But it's good to have regular checkins.

Here's some points for discussion:

REQUIREMENTS:

Requirements.
User stories.
Make UI mockups for configuration and user views.
We need to do sequence diagram for how things are going to work.

CODE:

Inspiration from interesting services...

Posted by dahacouk on February 15, 2015 at 9:49pm

I'm not sure if we have a place for interesting services that inspire us. So, I'm just starting a thread here to capture inspirations. And here's one...

http://filament.io

Trying to change title of this group to Drupal Social Initiative...

Posted by dahacouk on February 14, 2015 at 9:02am

We have an issue (see https://www.drupal.org/node/2414195 ) in project groups.drupal.org which is trying to get the title of this group changed to Drupal Social Initiative whilst keeping the URL of https://groups.drupal.org/social-initiative

Would be great if we got some support from everyone here by following the issue and/or commenting on the issue.

There are many other groups which have titles different from their URLs. Seems like we just need to find someone with enough Drupal magic to do this. Any ideas?

Social Media Privacy: how can we implement it in Drupal?

Posted by SocialNicheGuru on November 6, 2014 at 10:23pm

There are many facets to privacy.

One of the many that I would like to explore are ways to obscure your identify even if you use modules which connect to social networks or ways to notify end users if their privacy might be compromised. We could take a look at things like notifications.

Just wanted to start a discussion to see if this is important to anyone else?

First hangout

Posted by RoySegall on October 10, 2014 at 11:25pm

Hello there.
The great BOF was great. i would like to see if we can start scrumming the social initiative.

I think we need to think on: When/What/Where.

When: A nice date that a lot of people could join in. We spread in a lot of places. I for instance in Israel so Friday, Saturday during 10:00 am(we have something like UTC+2, depend when we switch to daylight saving time clock).