After the great work done via the D5 Drupal ED profile. I was keen to find out if others would be interested in creating a D6 (and/or D7) schools profile from scratch using the current best practice.
What I would be interested in working on is the idea of agreeing a best practice starting point for all schools and seeing how far you can take it before everyone wants to 'branch'.
For example we might all agree that:
Install fresh drupal 6
install Date and calendar
create roles
Governors
Teachers
Students
Parents
Hope fully everyone is still onboard
Then we see if we can take it a stage further do we handle Year groups/classes as taxonomy or organic groups?
If we could agree a concensus that takes us far enough along this route then we could create a Drupal 6/7 profile that schools could use as a useful starting point (that most of us agree on) but crucially if they then come up with great ideas such as classes/projects/newsletters that can be fed back into the profile
As it develops there will come a point when all our individual needs are too diverse to be served by a single profile but it would be an interesting exercise to see if that branching point is really drupal6/7 vanilla distribution! :-(
My background is graphic design/drupal website developer and Junior school governor so hoping to get a good website base for my school out of this but hope NOT to have to reinvent wheel
