A community site with front page articles, a community blogging section, discussion forums, and shared image galleries.
Anyone is welcome to sign up for an account and participate in the forums. After some time in the forums, users are invited to become contributors, and can post blog posts and photos, as well as submit unpublished articles.
The blogging functionality is a community multi user blog. It is not meant as one users blog, but rather a large community that can post quick thoughts responding to each other and sharing their ideas. (Note: this is in here because people get confused about "blog" functionality — this is meant to highlight that having a community blog is not the same as a single user blog, so don’t expect to be able to change titles and designs etc. — your blog posts are in a shared, community space)
Editors are around and police the forums, as well as reviewing and publishing articles and other material for the front page.
The photo galleries are shared galleries: like the forum and the community blogs, users upload them to share, rather than in their own space. There are weekly suggestions for new gallery categories, and users can also tag photos with whatever they like to mix and match how the photos are grouped.While I’m piling wishes on top of dreams, I’d even like to use the wizard that has been in core since Drupal 6 to make several parts of this OOB experience optional. That is, right at the beginning, users would have two options. One would be to do an "express install" that would install everything with the defaults as I’ve outlined above. The second would be to engage the wizard and answer a series of questions and options: Do you want forums? yes/no
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