SL Framework for Drupal: “Real Soon Now”
The Second Life Drupal Group has an interesting piece of news: a Drupal framework is apparently in development that would allow Drupal modules to interact with objects in the virtual world of Second Life. There’s no code on the project page at the moment, but it’s coming “Real Soon Now,” according to a comment made today by the developer (assuming it’s not an April Fool’s joke, which I don’t believe it to be). 2bits, a Drupal consulting and development company, initially announced the “release” of the framework about a month ago, but that announcement seems to have been premature. If it is, in fact, in development, it will be interesting to see what users make of it, and it could be a nice marriage of Drupal’s open-source content management system with Second Life’s semi-open-source platform. Another small step toward integrating virtual worlds with the wider Web?
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Sounds very similar to Sloodle - http://www.sloodle.com/ - a project to create a mashup between Second Life and the learning management system, Moodle.
Happy 3pointD anniversary Walker.
And Happy April Fools Day too…
I can’t trust things on today of all days. But I really hope this is true ! I have done some poking around with sloodle like systems, and think there is real potential in the creation of SL driven interfaces to traditional data storage systems (read : SL based library).
Veeerry interesting. I’ve been evaluating CMS systems for websites, and Joomla! was coming out on top until this bit of information. Easy SL integration would tip me over to Drupal pretty easily, since it’s already a great system.