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Drupal the card game, 3rd edition

We really liked the concept of the Drupal card game pioneered by NodeOne. It is a great starting point for coaches to teach teams the value of collaboration. If you make an external reward system (e.g. winning team gets a bag of sweets) and you let teams play a couple of games, you can make a meta-game in which teams can experience the difference between different playing styles (and therefore the value of collaboration).

Drupal warez version leaked

Last night I browsed 4chan as usual. Besides the usual Pedobears and Lolcats I found out that the Drupal.org server has been hacked, and someone made a torrent from all of those very expensive modules that are stored in the "contrib" repository.
This is a very serious issue, since the whole thing worth around $189.000 if you buy it in the shop...

Alpha 1 Knowledge management for Open Atrium, test it now!

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We've blogged before about the Knowledge management feature package that Pronovix developed for Open Atrium. To make it really easy for you to test out the features, we made a tarball that contains an installation profile that by default will enable all the knowledge management goodness:

Concurrent editing in Graphmind

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The following video is an initial proof of concept of the multiuser mode of Graphmind. It allows more than one user to work on the same mindmap at the same time. One step further to making Graphmind a real collaborative tool.

There is still a lot of work to prevent/resolve conflicts, but it shows the possibilities.

You can also watch the video on our Youtube channel.

Knowledge managment in Open Atrium: our feature stack

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Ever since Open Atrium went public we've been working on integrating our knowledge management features into it. Yesterday we cleared the final hurdle to get our stack into beta. In this screencast you'll see the following features/modules in action:

Drupalcamps in Europe

Just found out that the Belfast Drupal users organized a Drupalcamp in Belfast last weekend.

I'm aware of 4 more 5 more Drupalcamps that will be taking place in the fall of this year:

Drupal mindmap = GraphMind

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GraphMind is a mindmap solution for Drupal. With the Flex based mindmap editor you can organize your map nodes in a structured tree. Custom attributes can be added to nodes, as well as in FreeMind. On the background, the format of the map is fully FreeMind XML compatible. Besides the host site, GraphMind can connect to any external Drupal sites (service modules are required), and load data from each of these sites. A loaded data can be Drupal nodes, users, files, terms, comments and Views lists. On drupal.org a developer version coming soon:

Spezzle: Drupal specifications that require less coding

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Imagine: you are doing a project for a customer who doesn't know Drupal. Even before she contacted you, she made a bunch of wireframes and detailed specifications. That's a dream case right? Just one problem, all the user interfaces and features are just a little bit different from the way things are done in Drupal. This is one of the problems we want to address with Spezzle.

Pattern recognition

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In this video I demo the webcam trigger module that I developed. When the application recognizes a specific pattern on the webcam (e.g. an image or a logo) a custom Drupal action will be fired. This action could login the user, redirect the user to another page, send a private message or anything else you could do with Drupal.

Using RDFa to mark-up features in specifications for websites

If you ever wrote a specification, you've come across the following problem: Once you finally built your spec you need to cut it into feature-tickets, spec units that you can properly follow in your project management system. This basically duplicates your information, in a fluent text and a ticket version. It's a lot of extra work and worst of all it disconnects your specification from your project management system.

In most cases this means that from that point on, the written document is dead: the fluid text version will never be rewritten. A recipe for a communication disaster.

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