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Rideshares

2018-12-19T13:19:45Z

Quitelost: add swedish skjutsgruppen

'''Rideshares''' or '''Ride sharing''' or '''Carpooling''' or '''Ridesurfing''' (not to be confused with [[CarSharing]]) is simply people cosolidating automobile trips by riding in one car, usually using a message board either real or online. This differs from [[Tips for hitchhikers|hitchhiking]] in that the people involved coordinate the ride before-hand agreeing when and where to meet and how to share the costs. Ridesharing is safe and both cheaper and more environmentally friendly than riding alone. Rideshares are most practical on trips between large cities.

=== Comments ===
* https://meta.trustroots.org/t/rideshares-in-trustroots/95
* https://meta.trustroots.org/t/adding-dynamic-location-to-meet-feature-for-hitchers-drivers/107

== RideSurfing on CouchSurfing.com ==

The CouchSurfing system may be exploited to allow people to coordinate ride sharing.
There is a proposal for adding a [[Ridesurf]]ing in CouchSurfing, help in making it real if you like. There is also a [[:csgroup:658|ride sharing group]] for this purpose but a more sophisticated system is possible. In the future it could even be combined with GPS, cellphones and always-on internet in order to have a more organized way of [[Tips for hitchhikers|hitchhiking]].

== Overview of rideshare services ==

*[http://www.ecolane.com/ Ecolane] - Demand-responsive transportation software. Geared towards corporate and other larger clients, this is an excellent example of using software to optimize transportation efficiency. While Ecolane's super-connected and super-automated approach is too far for CS to reach at this time, it presents an approach CS can begin striving to achieve in the future.

*[http://alternetrides.com/Home_Rides.asp?logoff= Alternet Rides] - Friendly but kind-of janky rideshare site; can organize rideshares around events.

*[http://www.spaceshare.com/ SpaceShare] - Green travel and rideshare for conferences and festivals. A terrific example of ridesharing organized around events. Their buzzword: "environmental networking."

*[http://www.craigslist.org/ Craigslist] - Don't know what needs to be said on this one.

*[http://www.hitchhikers.org/ hitchhikers.org] - Web portal on which drivers with empty spaces in their cars can add a ride and passengers can search for rides. All over the world. Use the small tab in the upper right of page to select which world region you wish to ride in

*[http://www.nuride.com Nuride] - A company selling car pooling management to companies and local government. Check the [http://209.242.151.6/nuride/NurideMarketingVideo.wmv video]

*www.digihitch.com -- offline since ~2012

*[http://www.cooreea.co.nz Cooreea] - A New Zealand based rideshare/freightshare website. A collaborative transport network that provides a secure environment to find and provide rides. The difference to most rideshare sites is that it has a trust rating for users (like Ebay and TradeMe) and it also offers a space for people to list things (like their extra luggage or sporting equipment) they would like to find a ride for or have picked up somewhere. For example a bicycle or surfboard they would like to use in a different part of the country but have difficulty taking there themselves.

*[http://pass-europe.eu/ pass-europe.eu] (same as [http://www.roadride.eu rodaride.eu]: shares information in RSS as [http://www.roadride.eu/rss/rides.xml rides.xml]. The licence of the published information is [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Creative Commons By-Attribution Share-Alike]. Very reasonable and well written [http://www.pass-europe.eu/therms.pl?lang=EN terms of use].

= Germany =

(info copied from a post of till in a group, see http://www.couchsurfing.com/group_read.html?gid=429&post=121836 . need reformatting)

in germany the predominant site for carpooling is www.mitfahrgelegenheit.de (existing since 2001), which is an independent, mainly for germany but occasionally also for rides within the rest of europe, but usually between germany and any other country.
there is no fee for the arrangement but you have to pay the driver.
for security or reliability issues: nothing will happen if somebody (driver or "guest") changes his mind 5 minutes before the ride which can be pretty disappointing if a ride is cancelled 5 minutes before. they have no security checking or rating system for the members.

there is www.mitfahrzentrale.de where you can send emails via the web-site but have to pay something (like $2) to see the phone number of the driver.

the "classic" pre-internet carpooling company called www.city-netz.de is dead or almost dead by now (i think) because it is quite complicated to use. you have to go to a travel agency, buy a ticket (which means, pay their fee - which is distance based, around 7€ for a ride like 600km, i.e. berlin -> cologne - plus you pay something like 25$ for the driver). The last time that i used that oldschool carpooling agency, the driver was with his little kid and my feeling was that he wanted to be sure that everything is secure. with the city-netz.de both sides have to leave their passport numbers etc.

within germany there is no cheaper way to travel than with the first site i mentioned, unless you hitchhike or you get a super discount flight or train ticket, which can happen sometimes but not on a reliable basis.

= France =

* In French the term ''covoiturage'' is used. Ridesharing is very common in France. Look on bulletin boards or [http://www.covoiturage.com covoiturage.com] which has tons of offers and requests daily.

= Denmark =

In Denmark there is [http://www.gomore.dk/ GoMore.dk].

= Sweden =

There is [https://skjutsgruppen.nu Skjutsgruppen] "The Give-a-ride-group" (it started as a fb group)
which is used through a Android/IOS app with the same name (which is actually [https://github.com/Skjutsgruppen open source]).

[[Category:Travel]]
[[Category:Free]]
[[Category:Transport]]
[[nomad:Rideshares]]

Migrating BeWelcome to Drupal

2011-09-19T06:39:13Z

Quitelost: link to database migration page

This is an overview of the project to migrate [[BeWelcome]] to Drupal. This is a work in progress. You're welcome to edit.

The BeWelcome project was started late 2006, and it has gained considerable respect for the way it's run. Unfortunately so far this has not materialized into an big active member base. One possible underlying problem is probably the current code base, which takes an considerable amount of time and effort to get into, experience that is not directly usable on other projects. So the idea has risen several times to move to a more active platform. According to a survey among potential and actual BeWelcome developers, taken in October, there is considerable knowledge of Drupal, compared to Zend, Symfony and even the BW Rox framework itself. (See also [http://couchwiki.org/images/en/images/7/70/BW_developers_survey_2010-10.pdf the developer survey].)

A general advantage of Drupal is the synergy:
* many directly usable existing modules
** BW bugs and feature requests can be part of that
* Drupal devs can become interested in BW
* it gives guidelines in terms of coding (e.g. [http://drupal.org/project/kit kit]) and project management
* BW "features" could be reused on other Drupal sites

The main git repo is at [https://gitorious.org/bw-drupal gitorious.org/bw-drupal]. This currently contains Drupal, some contrib modules and a BW installation profile. See also [[Set up BW Drupal]].

==Current status==
00:07, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
It's in an alpha stage:
* There's a start at migrating BW Rox test data into BW Drupal. Profiles and some other things are migrated.
* We won't try too hard to keep a smooth upgrade path until we reach beta

==Want to help?==
Some things you can do right now:
* create an account here and [http://couchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Migrating_BeWelcome_to_Drupal&action=watch watch this page] so you get updates
* Drupal site building
** build features according to current BW functionality
** find out what's working in D7
* PHP coding
** fix what's not yet working in D7
** add needed functionality to Drupal modules
* <strike>Drupal theming => turn the BW layout into a Drupal theme</strike>
* learn Drupal 7

More will follow later, such as testing and bug reporting. ''We should have an issue tracker. Meinhard? :)''

===People===
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/guaka guaka], [http://drupal.org/user/331773 d.o] - everything but graphic design
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/lemon-head lemonhead] - everything but graphic design. [http://drupal.org/user/459338 donquixote on d.o.]
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/robino Robin] - experienced site builder (hardly any PHP)
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/su2010 su2010] - experience with theming
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/sitarane Sitarane] - Site builder (hardly any PHP)
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/matthias globetrotter_tt] - learning Drupal, can help with theming and graphic design
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/crumbking crumbking] - help with theming and graphic design
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/planetcruiser planetcruiser] - will join later, focus on Rox for now (PHP pro) :)
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/baisong Oren] - 2 yrs Drupal 6 theming, coding & project mgmt, some D7. Boston, USA
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/lupochen Micha] - still learning Drupal, did some Drupal theming already, can help with HTML, CSS and some PHP, also got an eye for clean design
* sign up and [http://couchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Migrating_BeWelcome_to_Drupal&action=edit&section=2 add yourself]

==Migration==
See also:
* [[BeWelcome Drupal Projects]] (Contrib Projects and their intended uses)
* [[BW Rox to Drupal database migration]]
* [http://drupalcode.org/project/kit.git/blob/refs/heads/master:/kitf.txt feature development specifications]
Main things to migrate:
* user profiles (comments / relations / location (geodata) / groupmembership)
** module: bw_user_profile (feature)
*** module status: enabled on master
*** module dev: in progress?
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''for migration of Rox user and members into Drupal users + profile2''

* messages
** module: [http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg privatemsg]
*** module status: in modules dir but not installed
*** module dev: no customizations yet
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''for basic user-to-user communication without sharing email addresses''

* preferences
** module: bw_prefs (feature)
*** module status: not started
*** module dev: not started
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''some things will probably already have stuff set up, and these should be brought into a single interface''

* admin (backend)
** module: bw_admin (feature)
*** module status: not started
*** module dev: not started
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''most things will probably have admin functionality, and permissions, and these should be organized into one or more admin dashboards. i.e. one for marketing/blog/comment administration, one for troubleshooting user/content issues. We will need to figure out what needs to be adapted at a later stage''

* page-like content:
** module: bw_faq (feature)
*** module status: enabled on master
*** module dev: working?
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''faq content type - working migration!''
** module: bw_tour (feature)
*** module status: not started
*** module dev: not started
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''add description/discussion here''
** module: bw_marketing (feature) '''(about pages, etc) where is it in BW Rox db?'''
*** module status: not started
*** module dev: not started
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''add description/discussion here''

* blogs
** module: blog (core in 7, removed in 8)
*** module status: in modules dir but not installed on master
*** module dev: not started?
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''D7 core Blog module, could become something custom but core might be good enough? possibly ditch? maybe do stream of news instead?''

Other:
* forum
** module: forum (core in D7)
*** module status: in modules dir but not installed on master
*** module dev: not started?
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''add description/discussion here''

* groups
** module: [http://drupal.org/project/og og]
*** module status: in modules dir but not installed on master
*** module dev: not started
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''add description/discussion here''

* galleries
** module: bw_galleries (feature)
*** module status: not started
*** module dev: not started
*** team: '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''custom content type (feature)''

* trips
** module: bw_trips (feature)
*** module status: not started
*** module dev: not started
*** team: realitygaps, lupochen '''(add yourself if involved or interested)'''
*** ''add description/discussion here''

===wiki===
Couchwiki for now

===User fields===
* user/register should show more than username/password
* geo + address: see "geo stuff".
* User fields settings should be exportable as features: http://drupal.org/node/989900

=== Geo stuff ===
We need a combination of geo and address features, as with support for the D7 field api.

Possible modules:
* [http://drupal.org/project/openlayers openlayers]. D7 dev release out since a few days.
** tmwc [http://drupal.org/node/743856#comment-3776918 says]:
**: OpenLayers CCK will be axed; geofield or another module may be the replacement.
**: Well, [https://github.com/developmentseed/geofield here's what GeoField is currently] - it's a very, very simple implementation of a fields-based geo module.
* [http://drupal.org/project/openlayers_geocoder openlayers_geocoder]. No D7 announced.
* [http://drupal.org/project/location location]. No D7 announced.
* [http://drupal.org/project/geo geo]. No D7 announced, see this [http://drupal.org/node/849354 d7 request]

===Privacy===
Waiting for D7 modules:
* [http://drupal.org/node/744618 CCK Private Fields]?

==Roadmap==
Like Drupal: it's ready when it's ready - no more open critical issues. So no roadmap with dates here. (Yet. Open for change.)

# Implement as much as possible on a D7 installation at bw.guaka.org
#* No importing of data yet
# Make it distributable
#* git
#* everything should become code
# Start importing data
#* With some funky data modules
#* Start with data that has no privacy issues such as wiki
# Create alpha D7 BW

==bw.guaka.org==
* Reflection of current codebase?
* Set up from scratch?
* Run migration scripts automatically?
** <strike>Issue: security! Possible solution change email addresses and passwords while importing test database?</strike> not really an issue since passwords don't work
*** <strike>Has anyone followed up on this? Any access to user account information should be secured ASAP!</strike> it's test data anyway, so no worries or hurries

===Drupal 7===
We have chosen to start right away with Drupal 7 (D7).

====Con====
* <strike>Many modules aren't ready yet.</strike>
* There are still some bugs.

====Pro====
* No need to upgrade to D7 ;)
* D7 has many good things in core that we want.
** Especially: "Fields in core". In D6, only nodes could have fields. To allow (full-featured) fields for users, one needed modules like content_profile, which brings structural problems.
* A lot of Great Stuff we don't yet know about will not be for D6

===Learning Drupal 7===
Some ways:
* Create a D7 site at [http://www.drupalgardens.com/ Drupal Gardens]
* Watch screencasts at [http://nodeone.se/learn-drupal NodeOne]
* Set up D7 on your own machine
* Read stuff from http://drupal.org/planet

[[Category:BW Drupal]]
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