The new release candidate 8 of Open Outreach we posted today includes security updates for Drupal core and the Context module as well as several fixes, most critically a bug in release candidate 7 that prevented posting or viewing of map locations.
Posted on Friday, October 19, 2012 - 3:56pm
We've pushed this week to meet our deadline of an October 19th release. We're heading to Ecuador for three months next week and so today is the last major development work we're aiming to do for a while.
Features
Article Post articles and display relevant contextual sidebar information.
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Bio Add a biographical user profile and associated views for displaying author information.
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Blog Allow users to maintain individual blogs accessible from their user profiles.
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Comment Allow users to subscribe to notifications when their comments are replied to and add CAPTCHAs to comment forms for spam prevention.
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Event Add events, including ones that repeat, and display them in calendars.
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Forum Provide an enhanced forum for user discussions.
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Granada Customize your site with a background image and your choice of colors.
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Highlighted Highlight specific pages of your site with a configurable homepage slideshow of featured content.
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Home Display recent content lists and a media carousel on a home page.
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Link Add and display links to other websites.
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Location Display locations on a map using taxonomy-based icons.
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Media Embed videos, and add images to content, and display media files in carousels.
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Member Create private members-only pages for your site.
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RedHen Manage contacts and organizations with the RedHen CRM.
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Section Create nested landing pages to present basic site structure.
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SEO Optimize your site for search engines by enhancing content with metadata.
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Social Provide social media links for articles, users, and the site as a whole and allow users to email content recommendations.
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WYSIWYG Provide a "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) editor for easily formatting text including input formats, with different versions per user role.
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Get Involved
Interested in helping us move the Open Outreach distribution forward? Co-founder Nedjo Rogers of Chocolate Lily has just blogged about all the ways this project could use your help.
Read his blog post and see our contribute section to get started.
Podcast on Modules Unraveled
Find out more about what's happening with Open Outreach by listening to the podcast on Modules Unraveled with Open Outreach developers Nedjo Rogers and Rosemary Mann.
User documentation
User documentation for Open Outreach is now available for download.
Screencasts
A screencast showing how to download and prepare to install Open Outreach.
Hosting for Open Outreach
A number of web hosts now offer customized Open Outreach hosting.
Visit the hosting page to see what is provided and costs.
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