I would like to make a gaming website that is centered around not just playing games but making them as well. The site would be split into two distinctive parts - one for people to play flash games (the popular ones that are out now as well as people's own submissions) and another side that focuses on teaching people how to make those same games as well as others (iphone, wii, xbox live, etc).

My dream site in Drupal is already in the works. I'm still in the early planning stages, but I have in mind for it to be open by April.

My friend called me up the other day with a crazy scheme to build a recipe sharing site - tagging, sortable, social, etc.

She doesn't do any code, so I'm thinking she's going to rely 100% on me for the functionality. If I get the book, I'd have you send it to her house so she can start herself down the path to Drupal Ninjahood!

I am already using Drupal, but I migrated my original site from Post-Nuke to Drupal, so I'm not really utilizing all the of cool possibilities yet.

Hopefully, once I am able to migrate to D6, I can start adding new features and, perhaps, get rid of the phpBB based forums.

Eric

I really want to get involved with integrating Drupal with the current social tool API's, specifically user creation and login/logout.

I think not having to sign-up for another website is going to be a big deal. Being able to sign into a Drupal site with Facebook creds, Twitter creds, or Google creds would be neat.

I want to build a Drupal sites with this auth feature.

(I know, I didn't answer the question, but I do module development....) :-)

I just finished re-designing/building my portfolio/freelance business site using Drupal and a custom template/theme setup. I'm also currently working on some new projects that will involve Drupal sites (1 MMORPG site, 1 Music Group site, and possibly 1 Niche Community site).

you know you were under NDA about the online magazine about vegetables. you'll be hearing from my lawyer.

also, no pandering for twitter followers or drupalcon session votes?

I'm planning to put together a Tumblr (or WP quickpost)-like bookmarklet posting tool to use to power my micro-niche blog network featuring such mass appeal topics as "things that remind me of the death star." Not even kidding.

E-learning--with all sorts of applications

I already won, but I have a closed social networking site connecting people from over 30 different countries in multiple languages using blogs, forum, pictures and videos along with a simple document management system using filefield and views.

I also working on another site built around the idea of small teams of diverse people working towards social service projects around the world.

To be clear, I didn't win this. I won a copy in a different competition so don't submit me for this copy. :-) However, It's worth entering for.

I just finished building a site for my father in Drupal 6. He is now able to manage announcements and file availability to his students, online. It took me 4 days(bug fixing included) in total, and only one custom module to tie the other modules i needed together (Content Profile, Taxonomy and Web File Manager).

I am now embarking onto an enormous journey with Drupal. I'm building a site where people can come together based on their interests.
The subscribers would be able to find people sharing the same interests, form groups and organize/ manage events.

Isn't Drupal awesome?!

Needless to say, "Using Drupal" would help quite a bit.. :)

I've been building sites for work and play using drupal for years -- It's pretty much my solution to just about any problem, although it has been surprisingly little help in my efforts to lose weight.
I've been a real wanker about giving back to the community, though -- I have done a little work on docs, testing and reporting a few bugs here and there, but overall I've taken far more than I've given back. But I can't say enough about the strength and power of the community that drives drupal. Full of win.

I want to build a kick-ass website for my Church where I am Music Director. We need to show who the weekly speakers are and the guest musicians on a Calendar. I want to link each speaker/musician with there own page where we can show their picture, contact information and links to websites etc.
We also have events during the week. So we need to list all of those events on another Calendar, with links to each event showing times, who is running the event, prices etc.
I also want to have an easy to use and not scary forum so that the Church community can share thoughts, ideas and other such things.
It would be great to link RSS things to Twitter accounts as well. @bpetherick for instance.
Sounds great, yes?

I'm trying to create an information/community hub for a non-profit in Hawaii. Besides the central organization there are several committees as well as distinct geographic districts, a dozen of each.

I envision each district and committee having their own "space" which they could blog, post documents, schedule events - with mapping to show locations.

The common pages would show information needed by all and the latest information posted by any location/committee.

Currently I do most of this with a mostly static WordPress site, but I do all the editing. By using Drupal I hope to spread out the work a bit.

I just realized how hard it is to describe something I can visualize fairly well. :-)

Needs:

File uploads/sharing
Calendar/s
Blog/s
Static Pages
Mapping
???

It sounds much bigger than it really is. :-)

To be honest, I just bought your book yesterday, so there's no need to consider me for the contest, but I thought I'd put this out there anyway.

Previously I'd considered Drupal when I took over the site. At that time it was individually coded pages that had been done in Frontpage, over and over and over - a mess in other words.

Since I didn't have the luxury of time to make improvements, I used WordPress. I was already familiar with it and I didn't, at that time, need much group collaboration.

I'd considered Drupal, but didn't have your book at the time of course, and I needed the site up yesterday.

A year down the road it's time to expand and start letting each district or committee to be responsible for their own stuff (with supervision of course).

Aloha!

Web site description:
Today there are 1553 modules listed on http://drupal.org/project/Modules page for Drupal 6. I do not even try to count all the issues reported for all these modules. The big problem with Drupal modules is that most maintainers do not really have the time working on it. If you roll a good patch for a module, you may end as a co-maintainer..

I would like to work on Drupal modules, fixing issues full time, I like it more than making web sites with Drupal. Someday I am going to make a web site where people can offer me money to fix an issue listed in the Drupal.org issue queue. I base the payment process on trust, I only get the money when the fix gets committed and the sponsor says the issue is fixed.
I will create a new module release which can be downloaded from my site, so the sponsor can easily test the fix. I create a patch and post it in the issue. I convince the maintainer that the modification is good. Anyone who worked in the issue queue knows that it is long and hard process.
So I can not guarantee that I can fix the issue, and I most certainly can not guarantee any deadline. Maybe I do not even start working on it, because there are many issues what I do not really like.. If I think I fixed the issue and do not get the offered money, I don't mind as it wasn't a waste of my time, you just lose my trust..

My goal would be to work on interesting issues and make a good living from it. It's not a job fair, you do not hire me, you can just motivate me to work on other issues than I am already working on, and make more time for me to work on it..

If I can make the site successful I would like to make it accessible for all Drupal developers.. And I most certainly do not mind if someone steal my web site idea. Someday we may have a quality assurance team for Drupal modules..

@Jeff: Thanks for the question.

The book cleared a lot of cobwebs in my mind. It certainly got me started., but I need more and look forward to the next - advanced version of the book.

This is what I am attempting.

My idea is best described by an example. Say a French client seeing the french text of the site uploads a document for translation into Spanish after an initial payment that is held in escrow. A moderator reviews the document and assigns it to a freelance translator who translates the document . After several revisions and displaying only part of the document to the client the client finally releases the escrow and the translated document is made available for download in the client account. Naturally the escrow is released to the site and a previously worked out amount is paid into the translators account.

My dream site that I have been wanting to build is a site that connects Foster Families with kids waiting to be adopted. For those not in the know of how Foster Care adoptions work, you usually sit down with your social worker and go over books of kids who are waiting to be adopted. You get a small profile about the child(ren) and if you are interested then you tell your social worker who contacts the kids social worker about getting more information. 70% of the time the books are old and the kids are already placed or not up for adoption. 25% of the time you don't hear back from the kids social worker. So it becomes a numbers game and you spend once a month looking through hundreds of profiles asking for more information on 10-15 at a time hoping that something happens.

So my website would allow the kids social workers to add children to the site giving a more descriptive profile of the children. It would be easy for them to update the status of the children so people aren't asking about children who are not available.

The foster parents could also post their profile with a survey of what kind of children they are looking for and their home study (a full description of themselves created by the social worker). As child social workers add children they would get results of possible matches of foster families. Foster families would get emails of possible matches of children. Foster families would then be able to request more information without the needed intervention of the foster families social worker.

Eventually I would like the paperwork needed to become a foster parent filled out on this website. This would help serve as a one stop place to handle all foster family paperwork needs.

The main problem with this site is you would need buyin from numerous counties throughout the US, but if you could get that I feel it would revolutionize how adoptions are done.

I want to build a community site for robot builders to show off their creations and get inspiration for new projects. I remember that all the robots I've build have been inspired by other's creations, and I think that could work perfectly on the internet.

I'd like to make a business social network where users get their own blog, articles are syndicated from a variety of sources, connections can be made between users that aren't "buddies" or "friends", users can be part of groups representing the company they work for as well as common interests and associations and where the site content has some targeting based on what the user fills out in their profile.

Subsidise it with paid-for advertising, job posts, premium access etc.

The challenge is on. If you don't give me the book I'll only go and buy it anyway (probably).

For the last 2 years, I've been using Drupal to build a local community site. And I'm about to rip it apart and redo things in D6. LOL! I don't think it will ever be done. While I probably know a lot of what's in the book, I'm hoping to get some ideas and maybe learn a thing or two. No need for a free copy here. Supposedly I'm already getting one. Though it's been over a month since I sent my address so dunno.

Michelle

A colleague of mine and I are currently working through Drupal on our way of making an open-source fantasy sports system. Currently, the only way people play fantasy sports is either use one of the major companies (ESPN, CBS Sportsline, Yahoo, etc.) and pay them a large fee for premium service or use their free limited version or they keep track of statistics themselves. Our idea is to build a fully-customizable one in Drupal so that anyone can load it as a module and customize it to their specific system. This would allow users to not only do the sports the big guys cover, but essentially anything that can be tracked can be input into the system. The idea is to keep users from having to pay money to a service if they are willing to enter the statistics themselves (and we have other scripts that can help with that).

Thank you for the offer. O'Reilly books are great and there's a lot to be learned from the lullabot crowd.

I'm planning a social networking for a groups of gadgeter.
Review, lost track, compare, modif etc.
I need more info about theming and more advance how to of the drupal way.

But cause my long cities, you can send me the ebook version :)

There's a very specific proprietary CRM that I'd like to integrate with Drupal. Their API is sadly still lost back in the day of COM, but I think it can be done, and would benefit.

It could be done, and put into contrib. And live forever in all awesomeness.

How about an online magazine about bacon?

My dream drupal site would be this:
Users (journalists, researchers) would be able to:

• Search consistently among libraries, newspapers, online journalists blogs, etc
• Pull specific parts of these off-site sources content (text, images, videos), linking to the original as quotes
• Have them create content with the above right there and then
• Use views-on-steroids to create related content according to sources, authors, dates etc as well as tags. Weight these.
• User homepages, control over who sees what, networking capabilities ('Researchers I relate to', etc)
• User Dashboards with capacity to add their own "feed blocks", both from inside authors and outside sources
• Let users add their own sources to pull data from, let them control the privacy on these sources
• User study groups, somewhat like groups-on-steroids, where they could share resources, discussions, and privacy

The intent is to make journalism/research more dynamic, powerful and accessible to anyone. Obviously the world would benefit, but it could also be used for networking professionally, as well as researching for projects etc.

It's been a while that I'm thinking about building a social network for musicians. We (because I'm also a musician) are always looking for a new band to play with and bands are always looking for a new musician to enter their band.
So it would be nice to have a website that would allow to find this guitar player you were looking for or someone who's lloking for your talent.
In short, a dating website for musicians.

The site I'm building won't even be used by the public. Well not directly. Harnessing the power of taxonomy and content types and the like, the site will pull in a bunch of data for categorization and labelling by "the editors". The chunks of data that will be tagged in the drupal store are indexed by Solr, and output via XML to desktop software. The apachesolr module is quite bare and I couldn't implement it in my demo, but the project is a go-ahead so I need to know if I should design the production system with the module in mind. Once (if) I figure it out, I will contribute to some docs which Mr. Douglass may not have time for, so more people can realize the power of Solr.

Another one I'm working on is a dynamic credit card processor that will process a transaction based on given criteria and always provide the best available processor for the client, at the best available cost to the merchant. It will also provide administrators control over which processors have priority, and other drag-and-drop business logic control. All using Drupal back end!

And last but not least, a food ordering site for a non-profit in my city. They provide hot and frozen meals for people who can't cook for themselves. Using an ubercart site, anyone in the world will be able to order food for their aging relative online and have it delivered. As it stands you can call in your order, but offering this on the website (with specific order details) just makes sense. If I can miinimize the administrative effort to run the site, they are sure to implement it in more cities!

I've started a site (http://www.nw-cee.com/) to scan feeds of news in English about countries in Central Eastern Europe. It scans and gathers relevant links and shows them to the public, focusing on politics and business in Central Eastern Europe. It is just interesting to have the Russian, as well as the Ukrainian news about the gas supply discussion on the same site. You can have your own feed for all the news relating to countries.

The site based on FeedAPI and Views&CCK. The news aggregation are running for some months, and I'm planning some more functions, i.e. editors to tag the news, or providing new feed sources.

I'd like to use it to build an administrative back-end for a passive solar housing development and design concept, consolidating and integrating all the mess of systems that organizations use to communicate, document, and collaborate. Our passive solar design concept would house our computer system which will pave the way for module development that controls the energy system, and be the "community plumbing" for the community that maintains and lives in the structure. We would draw from the open source model and be freely available to help replicate the business model and software infrastructure to grow a distributed network.

For the past 13 years I have hosted a music networking site called the KlezmerShack. It contains reviews, band listings, an international calendar, a blog, articles, vendor listings--it is one of the most immaculately messy collections of hand-crafted obsolete HTML (with some help along the way from Movable Type, bless it).

it's time to move the site into the 21st century. Bands should be able to maintain their own listings. People should be able to rate bands. People should be able to get the word out without my mediation.

Drupal is clearly the way to go, if only a bit at a time. I just need the time and some documentation that makes sense. One way or the other, this site is going Drupal over the next few months.

When I started building sites, I started with Joomla. To be honest, Joomla was my first choice because it was the first one I tried. I have used it for a few client sites, and it was acceptable for the task at hand. Now I am building my own site that will be a community blog as well as a place for people to meet and discuss local issues and maybe plan events to take action in the community. I have strayed from Joomla because I believe it is becoming too commercial, and I'm tired of being told in the forums what Joomla will let me do, instead of how to do what I want.

After some extensive research on Drupal, and asking lots of questions, I have found the Drupal community to be helpful and focused on the end result, not the commercial value. They also have been able to point me in the direction of how to do what I want, not what I am allowed to do.

I have found some Drupal Social Networking sites that are up and thriving, and the platform seems as solid as any other sites I have seen. The themes are crisp, and when you click a button or tab it does what you expect.

Solid and predictable are the most important qualities for me, and I have seen them in every Drupal site I have visited. The admin panel is easy to navigate, and the themes seem to be relatively easy to manipulate.

Over all, Drupal wins hands down in my book. I start building the site this month.

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