Berliner.de – A portal focused on Berlin, developed using Drupal.
Submitted by Stalski on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 15:00
Berliner.de is a social network focused on Berlin. Berliner.de is for all Berliners and all other citizens of the world who are mad for Berlin or are eager to become so. On Berliner.de, users are able to add new content or comment and rate other people's contributions. They can make new friends, upload pictures, send messages, subscribe to interesting topics or just stroll around the vast amount of existing bits and pieces regarding Berlin on the site. The most important things going on in a user's network are presented in a newsfeed.
The users are backed up by an editorial department that is checking, finalizing and publishing all public contributions.
Berliner.de was developed by the long-established company BerlinOnline that runs (among other portals) Berlin.de, the official website of Germany’s capital, Berlin. Involved in the development of Berliner.de were (among others) Drupal community members fl3a and ambo.
The core technical bae of Berliner.de is built on Drupal 6 using many additional modules. These include the obligatory CCK, Views, ImageCache, Pathauto and Rules.
Development of the site
Following the extensive planning of the project, development started with detailed ideas in mind regarding desired functionality. Many of those were covered by existing modules. Others had to be realized and implemented using our own development and extensions. Drush is used for module maintenance and administrative stuff.
It might be of interest to some that Scrum was chosen as the project management framework. Using its simple but effective commandments for the first time, it lead to highly excited and contented Product Owners and Team Members.
Different types of content
Besides the standard content types, there are events, locations and articles to be found on the portal. These three types of content are organic groups with the option to post pictures in them. These pictures are a unique type of content and are presented on the site of the organic group using the modules Views and Viewscarousel. Other types are picture albums, related pictures, and content profiles.
Berliner.de is a social network focused on Berlin. Berliner.de is for all Berliners and all other citizens of the world who are mad for Berlin or are eager to become so. On Berliner.de, users are able to add new content or comment and rate other people's contributions. They can make new friends, upload pictures, send messages, subscribe to interesting topics or just stroll around the vast amount of existing bits and pieces regarding Berlin on the site. The most important things going on in a user's network are presented in a newsfeed.
