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Curated by members of the Cambridge Kid's Council, Find It Cambridge was designed to help busy parents stay informed about the plethora of educational opportunities available for their children.
Find It Immigrant Navigator (link coming soon!)
Curated by Immigrant Family Services Institute, the Immigrant Navigator was designed to provide information on events and services for new Haitian Immigrants in order to ease their transition into life in the United States.
Those could be separated by a comma using CSS. For example, "By Clayton Dewey, Ben Melançon, David Valdez."
A more natural display, though, would be "By Clayton Dewey, Ben Melançon, and David Valdez." If, instead of three people, two people wrote the article (as is the case), we would want to display "By Clayton Dewey and Ben Melançon."
Before, a sitebuilder would have to abandon structured content for a text field which an editor would use instead. In other words, instead of using a reference field to display the authors (even if present on the edit form), the sitebuilder would add a regular text field for the content editor to write out the list in a more human-friendly way and that is what would be output, or the content editor would write the byline into the body field.
Now, displaying lists of structured content naturally is possible with the In Other Words module.
(More featureful listings are also possible with Twig templates, but that does not empower sitebuilders— it bogs down themers!)
For text list fields and entity reference fields, In Other Words provides the In Other Words: List field formatter. Its settings page looks like this:
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Part analyst, part troubleshooter, and part troublemaker, Stefan serves as Agaric's secret weapon and resident heretic. From his homeland of Germany, with other Agarics in Massachusetts, and at Drupal events around the world, Stefan programs, administers systems, and questions Drupal dogma.
Multilingual in human and computer languages, Stefan's technological curiosity and talents have benefited Agaric clients and the Drupal community. With an interest in integrating systems via web services, his work has included LDAP and Kerberos configuration. With his contributions to RDF in Drupal, Stefan is helping build the semantic web, in which computers understand what we mean and let us do fantastically smart and complex things with the knowledge we're all putting online.
Former school teacher turned technologist, Clayton now applies his background in linguistics, community organizing and web development as a user experience architect for Agaric and co-founder of Drutopia.
Clayton has worked with universities, open source companies, tech diversity advocates, prison abolitionists, and others to translate their organizational goals into impactful digital tools with meaningful content.
Aside from content strategy and information architecture, Clayton also enjoys being a goofy dad and always appreciates a good paraprosdokian.
The command line provides so much power. We cover none of that power here, instead showing how to open the door—to open your terminal—on several operating systems.
GNU/Linux
In Ubuntu, use the Super key and start typing terminal. As soon as you see the Terminal application show up and be selected, press Enter and you will have a terminal to type in.
If you're not using Ubuntu, something similar should still work, but if you're using
Mac OS X
Press Command + Spacebar to open Spotlight, and start typing terminal. As soon as you see the Terminal application show up and be selected, press Enter and you will have a terminal to type in.
Windows
Press the Windows key + R, type cmd, and you will have a terminal emulator in Window's "Command Prompt" console.
The Challenge
350.org needed their mapping tool to convey the impressive breadth of the climate strike while quickly surfacing events near supporters. Mostly through volunteer power they had an initial version of the tool running, but it lacked the features needed for organizers to mobilize on the scale the climate strike demanded.
We worked with the 350.org Product Team to refactor the custom Javascript to use React.js, a popular and easy to use framework, add embed code parameters for organizers, and improve the user experience for climate strikers. The result was a tool that helped bring out an estimated 4 million people in possibly the largest climate justice action in history.
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I am very happy the bug is fixed and this blog post will be obsolete in mere days! Usually this sort of technical noodlings get relegated to our raw notes, currently hosted through GitLab, but figured at least a few other Drupal developers would want to know what has been going on with their toolbars.
Image credit: "Too Many Tabs" by John Markos O'Neill is licensed with CC BY-SA 2.0.
Turning off links to entities that have been Rabbit Holed
in modern Drupal
The growing community built around Drupal offers a multitude of options to easily integrate Drupal into your current lifestyle and to branch out in new and different ways. Here are a few ways to migrate your lifestyle to one as a Freelance Drupal Developer and a contributor to the community.
If you have a 9 to 5 job at an office or a specific location, you can choose to view online Drupal tutorials in whatever spare time you have instead of watching a movie. Drupal tutorials can be quite entertaining at times and are especially rewarding because they will change your life for the better.
Sign up for an account on Drupal.org and download the latest version of Drupal. Install Drupal locally on your hard drive and use some of the knowledge you learned in the tutorials. If you get stuck, log onto groups.drupal.org and search for an answer to your issue - chances are good that someone else has had the same issue and the solution will be posted there. As you search through the posts on the forum, be sure to respond to any posts that you may have the solution for. Since you have just gone through the install and setup, there is a good possibility that even as a beginner - you too may be able to help someone else. It's a good practice to do both things on a forum visit:
- Ask For Help
- Give Some Help
After a few weeks or months viewing tutorial videos and getting a solid idea of the moving parts within Drupal, you can start to create your first real site. I recommend that you involve a friend. Most people have at least one friend that has an idea for a business venture. Ask your friend if you may help them build a site based on their business idea. Enlist the friend to help you by inviting them over for a bowl of popcorn and a few Drupal movies...
Agaric builds tools for medical and scientific communities to advance their work, enhance collaboration, and improve outcomes. And we've been doing this—helping healthy discussion about science and medicine flourish online—since 2008.
Reusable platforms for advanced online collaboration
Therapy Fidelity App
Agaric is developing the Therapy Fidelity app: an all-in-one, inexpensive mobile web application to help therapists do the work of counseling. The app automates surveys, handles multiple CBT protocols, tracks fidelity, monitors outcomes, and more. This application is being developed for Scheeringa Mind Company with initial funding by Tulane University. It is built in JavaScript (React and Typescript) and Golang and makes extensive use of Truevault and AWS APIs.
The Collaboratory
The National Institute for Children's Health Quality partnered with Agaric to build the Collaboratory—a platform designed specifically to help healthcare improvement teams collaborate, innovate, and make change. During this partnership, begun in 2015, Agaric built a collaborative analytics tool that allows healthcare quality teams to visualize, compare, and benchmark data, identify opportunities for improvement, and celebrate their successes. We were proud to be NICHQ's 2020 partners in making the most of the digital health revolution.
Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE)
In 2015, we began contributing to PECE, an open source digital platform that supports multi-sited, cross-scale ethnographic and historical research. PECE is built as a Drupal distribution that can be improved and extended like any other Drupal project. Agaric's contributions include building an API integration between PECE's bibliographic citation capabilities and Zotero's open source reference management and collaborative bibliography tools.
We have been brought back for a larger role to realize the full upgrade of this distribution and platform to Drupal 10.
Partners In Health Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Network and EndTB.org
Beginning in 2010, Agaric took over the development of the DRTB Network platform for Partners In Health, the famed international nonprofit public health organization, and the TB Care II initiative. The core of this work was connecting practitioners in the field with experts through a natural yet structured response process complete with careful editorial review. This crucial work lives on with endTB.org, a partnership between Partners In Health, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Interactive Research & Development. All of this work for PIH is in Drupal.
Science Collaboration Framework
Agaric was the lead developer for the Science Collaboration Framework, a project of Harvard's Initiative in Innovative Computing. Working with researchers from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, we built a reusable platform for collaboration and communication in biomedical research, enriching the contributions of scientists and the biomedical online community with semantic data, highlighting advanced, structured relationships between contributed resources, and facilitating structured community discourse around biomedical research. We even earned a writeup in a scientific journal for our work!
As part of SCF, Agaric led the work of building the website for an online community of Parkinson's disease researchers and research investors, on the Science Collaboration Framework, for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
