Draft of my application to Google Summer of Code 2010. A set of modules that assist in project management & organizational management targeted at activists and organizers in social movements.

Project Tools for Grassroots Activists

Please submit any and all feedback to me on IRC in #drupal (screen name: auzigog) or view email at [email protected]

Final proposal can be found here

Contents 1 Actual Features 2 Feature-Creep Listing 2.1 Tasks 2.2 Members 2.3 Communication 2.4 Unified place for docs, notes 2.5 Meetings 2.6 Packaging (at the end)

[edit] Actual Features

The listing of actual features for the proposal has been moved to page for the final proposal.

You can also find it on Groups.Drupal.org at this link: http://groups.drupal.org/node/60118

[edit] Feature-Creep Listing

This is my vision for the end-result of this project--My "feature-creep" listing of everything I've come up. Some of these tasks are obviously duplicating existing tools withing the community. This description is a vision of what the end result will be.

Bold features are the ones that I would add and be able to add in the 3 month time period. They are elaborated on in another section.

[edit] Tasks

• Task management with due dates
  • Default displays sort by due date.
• Reminders system for tasks
• Use the DARCI model for tasks
• DARCI Model
  • DARCI
    • Decision-maker
    • Accountable
    • Responsible
    • Consulted
    • Informed
    • Completion status
  • Software developers tend to create task managers for themselves. There are some differences in how "real world" tasks are assigned and carried out. This model better accounts for those.
  • Value: People are volunteering. Having the accountability is important.
• Ability to create/view/edit tasks in a "timeline" view.
  • Most projects involve creating a "backwards timeline". This format is much more friendly to users than creating a huge number of individual tasks. In timeline mode, only the title would be required to create a new task.

[edit] Members

• Sub-groups within organic groups. Hierarchical structure to reflect the actual structure of organizations.
• Sign on
  • Use google sign on. Easy integration with google docs & google calendar.

[edit] Communication

• Listserv integration withing groups and subsgroups
• Option to send reminders via SMS Gateway or Textmarks group SMS service

[edit] Unified place for docs, notes

• These tools largely already exist withing Drupal core modules (Book module) and other popular contributed modules.
• Google doc integration. Use it at WYSIWYG and display while still using existing google docs
• WYSIWG editor. Likely use CKEditor for simplicity.
• Automatically create links and listing of documents that are still stored in Google Docs.
• Automatically add a user to a shared folder when they are added to a specific group

[edit] Meetings

• Schedule meetings online
• Reminder about meetings once a date has been selected
• Agenda
  • Allow for a "working agenda" that can be added to by specified members of the group as the meeting approaches and the facilitators become aware of new items for discussion.
  • Agenda is sent out with meeting reminder
  • Offer template agendas to encourage efficient use of meeting time
  • Ability specify the amount of time that each agenda item should last
• Meeting Minutes
  • Keep minutes sorted, categorized and searchable
  • Automatically integrate the "next steps" part of a meeting with the Tasks features above.

[edit] Packaging (at the end)

• Tie it all into Open Atrium to maximize usability
  • Alternately, package it up as part of Drupal 7 if it is approaching a release. This would also solve the usability issues.
• Meeting scheduling
• WYSIWYG

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