This is an example of a book content entry. Supposedly we would be able to collaborate on this document. Here's an example of what we could use it for. Drupal has a lot of modules that extend the functionality of the site. I'll post some ideas.
The Private Messaging Module -
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/privatemsg
The Table Manager Module -
http://drupal.org/project/tablemanager
(Don't be frightened by this write up, it's actually quite easy to use out of the box, I have it running on my laptop, this is mainly about how to configure the display of tables. The default look should be OK for our purposes.
Calendar
Have a look at this event modules comparison, perhaps that will help us decide which is the best way to attack the shared calendar idea.
Perhaps somebody could try editing this post and see what happens.
Installed two modules important to us: Events and Simple_Access. One allows us to post events on a shared calendar, the other allows us to restrict who sees stuff (all types of stuff).
Managed to get the event module installed and running.
Go ahead and try to add an event and see if you can make heads or tails out of it. There is a calendar now at lower left that you can use to navigate quickly with as well.
Since we also have the simple access module, we can also control who can see and add events. I added the Norseland Winter Thyng (on Jan 20) for TdB members only. By the way, this means that TdB Friends (I haven't set a group up for them) CANNOT see this event - and it's their event! Unless we want to set events to be viewable by everyone, we'll have to have another group called TdB friends so we can publish stuff that Friends + Members can see. Simple Access restricts access to the groups you have created roles for. This is opposite from some other access modules which restricts everything except for those you explicitly set up to see it. I thought that was far to draconian for our purposes.
To set restrictions on stuff, you have to select a group (or groups) that can see the content by choosing the Access item underneath the post. Most content types have this item, though I think comments inherent it from the 'node' type it is attached to. (ie: forum topic, event, page, etc.)
As luck (of the Irish) would have it, right after I took a complete backup of the site, I decided to change something which hosed all of the images on the site (or at least, confused the database about the location of the various sizes of each image). I wanted to change the thumbnail size from 150 to 130 so that more images will fit per gallery, but changing that setting caused a massive problem somehow.
I managed to upload the saved copy of the database with no problem, and uploaded all the images again (in the files/images directory), though I don't know if that was necessary, and got the site up and running again. Just as it came up live, they took the server down for an upgrade! which was very disconcerting since I thought it was my problem, not a server maintenance issue. Luckily I found a post on the server's announcement board pretty soon after the issue occurred. I don't know what really happened, since I'm still unfamiliar with the how the database really works :p
It's a priority to me to figure out what the proper procedure for changing the image thumbnail size would be as well as the correct method to recover from such a disaster. My solution wouldn't work very well if I didn't have a recent backup of the database... All the posts made since the database backup would be gone! So I need to know how the image resizing and linking is working behind the scenes.
Basically we need to find a module for Drupal which will allow us to create a Myspace-like profile. Wordpress offers this out of the box I think, where you have an avatar picture and any comments you make anywhere carry this picture along... In any case I don't see that built in here.