Lobby

A little community platform for everybody!

This is the idea behind lobby module, a new social networking module. This module gives the possibility to everybody in your community to get active. Users can found groups, add a coordinate for their group, create different forums with an own, simple permission system and write news and newsletters. They can do everything alone without the need of any action of an administrator.

While developing this module we tried to make everything as easy as possible for this module. Clear structure and easy-to-use functions are included in this module.

Actual version

The module actually is available in version 1.0 but due to the fact that this module is still unter development many functions will be released later.

Features

Lobby provides several features like:

  • internal category system for groups
  • optional moderation process for new groups
  • groups can be linked with any cordinate and a map (MyMap module needed) will be displayed at the bottom of every group’s starting page
  • overview of all groups can be shown on another map with a marker on it for each map
  • multifuncitonal forum included
  • abonnements available for forums and topics
  • standard forum environment can be installed optionally when a group is founded to make usage easier for group owners
  • group owners can write own information into their personal starting page using scribite! WYSIWYG editors
  • own, simple user management with optional moderation process and moderator management for group owners
  • display member lists for each groups
  • multifuncitonal news system included
  • own news system for each group
  • forum and article permission management: different permissions can easily be set
  • commenting news articles possible for readers
  • an own, compact starting page for each group
  • use import functions from groups and Dizkus module to integrate existing content into lobby
  • newsletters: each group can send their news articles as newsletters to every member

Examples

This module is used on live site in germany, netbiker.de. The module represents local, real existing groups in the web and offers a discussion and information plattform for everybody

Requirements

Lobby needs some ifs-net modules installed:

  • ContactList (recommended)
  • EZComments (recommended)
  • Invitation (required)
  • MyMap (recommended)
  • MyProfile (recommended)
  • scribite! (recommended)

License and download

The module is not offered as totally free open source module.

If you want to use the module at your zikula site, feel free to do this.

You are allowed to run the module and to mike minor layout changes but you are not allowed to re-use the code of the module in other modules or other software and to cut away or hide the copyright message and links of the module developers that are placed inside the module’s output.

If you want to integrate the module completely into your site without having the copyright messages or advertisemend showed please ask the module developer for a license.

There are two target groups of the licence:

Using the module non-commercially the module costs € 49. Non-commercial usage does not allow your site to have sponsor-banners, payed links etc. on it.

The commercial version needs individual agreements. Please write an email if you want to use this module commercially and tell us about the planned usage.

The licence allows

  • the usage – not limited in time – for the licenced domain / website,
  • the making of all changes you need in the source code
  • the sourcing of updated for a period of 24 months that also includes email support by the developer.

The licence does not allow you

  • to give any code parts relating to the lobby module to other users or to use any code parts in other software or modules,
  • to use the module on another website than the licenced one
If you are interested in the lobby module please contact us via email!