CivicActions

Hello!

Just a quick note to let people know on the planet and elsewhere that I've developed a short tutorial on setting up a workflow-ng event and using arguments / handlers based on the flag_content module.

It's available at:

Workflow NG tutorial and how-to

This is not for the faint of grey matter... sorry, no screencasts or tweets. Just a lot of code. I will be posting a screencast / some screenshots sometime soon, but for now, this one is for the geeks.

Enjoy!

Jacob

Introduction

Amnesty International has been advocating for and protecting human rights and human rights legislation internationally for the past 46 years. Its reputation and the foundation of Amnesty sections in most countries also has made it one of the most recognizable names in the world.

The workflow trinity: States, Owners and Rules

Amnesty International has 400+ employees in their London office who work in various capacities from research, to advocacy, to marketing and development of the organization. Their web and press divisions (primary admins of the website) need to create stories and press releases with input from all of these employees. As a result, workflow became a very important part of this project.

After a couple months of development. The google appliance module is now published on drupal.org!

This module allows drupal developers and site administrators to plug into google's enterprise search offerings (the GoogleMini and the Google Search Appliance).

I've written a little how-to and announcement on my personal site entitled Google Appliance Integration with Drupal

It is currently in beta, so any lucky google appliance users out there, please bang on it!

Thanks,
J

Amnesty International launched a total overhaul of their website on December 10th (World Human Rights Day). The new site was developed in Drupal, with CRM components provided by CiviCRM and was integrated with a sister project to migrate Amnesty International's ancient lotus notes database of 50K+ reports and press communications to alfresco (http://alfresco.org), an open source document management system.

Turtle Update
* Turtle Porn Warning *
Caution: not safe for turtlings

Seems Billy Hoffman has developed something of an XSS trojan which uses your browser to launch attacks, and log information. It sounds quite scary from the press I've read, but specifics do not seem very consistent. Here is something from the Bio page on ShmooCon where this will be demo'd (but not released):

The Internet is actually a series of tubes:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_pipes_web_database.php

Sam Lerner, our newest hired gun and old colleague Sam Lerner sent me this. Essentially, it's M$ Access, but for a huge swath of machine readable content on the web. Even for non-techies, this is worth taking a look at.

This is really fascinating, I reccommend checking it out, basically it allows people to invest in small business of folks from around the world. But the best part is, you can micro-lend like $20, and if 100 people do it, the guy's got enough to start a veggie cart, or an auto shop. I just found out about it today, and it looks really promising.

Since it's my Birthday today, I invested $25 in Rose Wamaitha Shoe Shop.

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=3896