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La diversité des opinions exprimées pendant la campagne européenne est complexe à rendre compte de façon synthétique. France 24 et RFI proposent pour l'occasion une carte interactive affichant une synthèse de contenus agrégés issus de sources hétérogènes (sites de partis politiques, journaux, blogs, twitter). 

La carte interactive affiche les nuages de mots clés les plus actifs chaque jour dans les contenus issus de chaque pays de l'Union. L'expérimentation est en phase d'optimisation: les listes de mots clés non significatifs sont chaque jours filtrés et de nouvelles sources selectionnées. Vous pouvez participer à l'expèrience et proposer de nouvelles sources à ajouter aux flux d'informations agrégées en envoyant un email à lab@france24.com

Découvrez la carte interactive de la campagne européenne sur le site commun France 24 et RFI : http://europeennes2009.france24.com ou http://europeennes2009.rfi.fr

La carte interactive est un développement réalisé par La Netscouade et le Studio Multimedia de France24.

Two weeks ago, France 24 released the code of the nodeselect module that is used in the back office of the France 24 website.
 
As promised, the SVN server is now open : http://svn.lab.france24.com
Now anybody can take an active part in the evolution of the project, before its release on drupal.org
 
Our repository is accessible anonymously in read-only (checkout only):
$ svn checkout http://svn.lab.france24.com/nodeselect/trunk nodeselect
 
If you want to have read/ write access (checkout and commit) to the repository you need an account and to check-out the HTTPS version:
$ svn checkout https://svn.lab.france24.com/nodeselect/trunk nodeselect
To get an account just contact us.
 
In the attachment you can find our server certificate in PEM format that you can import into your browser.

Nodeselect is a module developed by Vincent Caillerez for France24. I've "extracted it" from the france24 site source code and i'm now in charge of the module.

This module was created to improve the nodereference CCK fields.
This field only searches by title, and performs a search for each letter that the user types.

The module runs a quick search engine. The user can filter node by title, creation date, status.
Then they can drag and drop the node into a nodereference field and change the order of the field (for multiple value fields).

This module doesn't change the database, or create a new content type. It only changes the interface.

The module needs javascript and minimum version 1.2 of Jquery. (jquery module)

 Installation:

1. Place this module directory in your modules folder (this will usually be "sites/all/modules/").
2. Enable the module.
3. Activate the bloc "Moteur de recherche NodeSelect".
4. Select the cck field nodereference which has to be modified by the module (in the nodeselect settings).

Todo:

We haven't released this module on drupal.org yet because it's not complete.

But we really want to, so we need your help.

• Prepare the module to be released on http://drupal.org
• Complete and translate the documentation in english.
• Try out the drupal search engine.
• Optimize the javascript code.
• Give users other things that will be able to be customized in the settings.
• ...

Demo

Play around with the module: http://demos.lab.france24.com

Download

You can download a version of the source code (see attachment).

We will soon put this code on a public svn so everybody can help us before we move the module onto http://drupal.org

This is an answer to Dries Buytaert post (http://buytaert.net/france24-using-drupal) about France 24 and Drupal

Why France24 has changed his CMS and chosen Drupal?

Six months ago France24.com was still using Magnolia as CMS.  The system suffered several problems (lack of performance, a lot of bugs, maintainance difficulties...). The first version of the website was developped using a fork of the community branch of Magnolia. This choice was firstly made to answer France24's needs in a hurry and it was developed in only three months to be online in time for 6 December 2006.

After six months of use, the system was clearly falling appart, and we decided to migrate our CMS to a platfom much more stable and flexible. And we had to do it without any impact for the end user.

The front office of the application was ok. We only needed to recreate the back office modules. In fact the whole platform!!!

We chose an Open Source solution for two reasons:  cost and independance. After a benchmark,  we were convinced that PHP & Drupal were the best choices.  After six moths of work with France 24 dev team, Vincent Caillerez,  Polyconseil and Linagora the new france24.com was ready: three languages, four million users, 10 to 50 journalists working on it and new functionalities every week...

We will soon be publishing some code extracted from the platform. Stay tuned :)