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Eli-TW edited this page Sep 26, 2012 · 2 revisions

Welcome to the joindin-drupal wiki!

This repository will contain a drupal module to interface a Drupal site with the joind.in website.

For what do we need this?

From joind.in's about page:

Joind.in is the replacement for all those paper submission forms that get left on the floor at the end of an event. The site gives details of events past, present and future, the sessions, timetable and speakers at each, and allows all attendees to register and leave feedback - for the sessions and for the event itself.

But we can do all this in Drupal. There's even a Conference Organising Distribution that will do this. For what do we need this?

  1. Data in Joind.in is persistent. I've been to Drupal events and found that six months later when I've wanted to remind myself what talks were given, who gave a particular talk, or see the feedback that the site itself has been torn down. On Joind.in, I can see all data for listed events going back to 2008. I can find every talk I've ever seen at a PHP conference at Joind.in.

  2. Because Joind.in stores data on many many events, it is possible to track speaker profiles across multiple talks and events, giving attendees a better insight into those presenting at your event, allowing them to make a more informed choice and increasing the profile of your speakers.

  3. This doesn't have to be an either/or decision. Joind.in has a comprehensive http://joind.in/api which supports writing data back to it. So either the Drupal site or Joind.in could be the master of the data. (writes in both directions could get messy). Reflecting the data on both sites means that should one site be unavailable the information is still "out there". But you get to have your data on your snazzy (do people still use that word?) Drupal site, but aggregated with all the other content hosted on joind.in.

My primary aim is to produce a module that will support data replication between a Drupal site and Joind.in for potentially multiple talks. It will provide entities to represents the data elements provided by the joind.in API, such as events and speakers. It will not mandate that you use them, and provide the functionality to designate existing entity types as representing joind.in data elements so that as little as possible of your Drupal site's architecture is determined by your decision to use this module. This will make it easy to add the module to existing sites that already contain content types for talks (for example).

The module will initially be written for Drupal 7. There is no current intention to backport to Drupal 6.

The long term aim is that the joind.in module will become part of COD. But it will be easier to have that discussion with the relevant people when the module is written and proved.

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