Developing this site yet again

Don't mind the silly Theme. It's just something to look at while we're bored and waiting to actually do the redesign/customization of a theme.

So there is a lot of ideas on here of stuff to do.

I looked over what was available at CCK and this came to mind.

So the ideas behind this site are multi-fold.

One of them is to help facilitate a gift economy based upon mutual-aid and skill sharing amplified with open-source technology.

The way I'm planning on doing this is probably with a user profile that defines various skills that people have.

Another idea is to create a directory of places utilizing the location module.

http://drupal.org/project/autocreate could be used to enable people to create events and add locations at the same time they are creating the events/adding them to the calendar. it will have to be tested. -- nope it doesn't allow you to select an existing one or create one. it just assumes you want a new one.

http://drupal.org/project/better_formats could be used to help work around the input_format limitations of drupal along with FCKeditor or whatever specialized reasons.

http://drupal.org/project/blockreference could be used in combination with views to provide a listing of the skills, interests, or even stuff (which would be nodes owned by the user) it would basically refer the block.

http://drupal.org/project/cck_field_privacy would be essential to make it so that the information contained in the profiles is protected via user_relationships or buddy_list.
http://drupal.org/project/privacy might work as well.

http://drupal.org/project/faceted_search might be essential to helping make the directory of skills easily accessible.

http://drupal.org/project/content_complete could be used to display how much of the profile someone has filled out.

http://drupal.org/project/flexifield - could be used to make cck types on the fly - the idea behind skills would be they could have a rating next to them, would be worth investigating but sounds like it's not fully developed.

http://drupal.org/project/hierarchical_select could be used to select skills or categorize stuff on the fly ?

http://drupal.org/project/nodeaccess_userreference this lets a user select people who can view a node - kind of cool for sharing stuff.

http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_explorer
http://drupal.org/project/nodereferrer
http://drupal.org/project/nodereferrer_create

http://drupal.org/project/remote_file could be used to retrieve profile pictures from myspace or facebook or something

http://drupal.org/project/viewreference would be used to integrate the views to the CCK based upon user stuff etc.
http://drupal.org/project/viewfield another way of bringing views into the profile

are all somewhat interesting alternatives to the one above

LAYOUT RELATED

http://drupal.org/project/composite
This would make columns or something for CCK fields, essentially competing with contemplate or something.

AGGREGATION RELATED
http://drupal.org/project/content_aggregator could be used to integrate feeds/blogs from other sites onto the arawakcity site.

MULTIMEDIA
http://drupal.org/project/emfield is the essential one but it's also hard to use.

http://drupal.org/project/flickr maybe this could be combined with a creative-commons search to make it easy for each article to have a image associated ?

http://drupal.org/project/jifupload could be used for uploading files it utilizes java

http://drupal.org/project/SWFUpload is another alternative

http://drupal.org/project/node_gallery as a place to put galleries on
http://drupal.org/project/media_player
http://drupal.org/project/media_mover - the media mover module

http://drupal.org/project/imce_mkdir -- kind of good to have for IMCE
http://drupal.org/project/imce_crop -- maybe cool too...
http://drupal.org/project/imceimage -- so good.

audio http://drupal.org/project/audio_filefield -- might be good

KIND OF WEIRD but COOL
http://drupal.org/project/createfromweb would make it easy to import books or DVDs or something with the fields filled out. probably doesn't work great.

http://drupal.org/project/editablefields would enable people to edit their profiles while viewing them. sounds cool. installed on a lot of sites.

http://drupal.org/project/editview would make a view where you can edit and add nodes, sounds cool worth playing with. used on 202 sites right now.

http://drupal.org/project/fieldactions lets actions use data from CCK - not sure what the point of it is but it sounds nifty.

http://drupal.org/project/multiselect lets you choose multiple type things

http://drupal.org/project/relevant_content for content referalls

http://drupal.org/project/panels - could go good with stuff...

OTHER

http://drupal.org/project/merci MERCI (Manage Equipment Reservations, Checkout and Inventory) is being set-up for public access type reservations of equipment

http://drupal.org/project/oai2forcck - UMM?

This site is really a hobby site with incomplete thoughts.