Very nice! Looks like a very well done distro! A team and I did a school intranet this last weekend for a coding competition. We'll be releasing it shortly, so between Julio and Learning Assistant, you're all set!

Cameron Eagans (cweagans), Mar 05 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Can't wait to dissect it and learn some new things!

JSCSJSCS, Mar 06 2012 on funnymonkey.com

@cweagans - Look forward to learning more about the Learning Assistant.

@jscsjscs - please, dissect away! And, if you want to add in documentation, we are centralizing all this work on d.o in the issue queue.

bill, Mar 06 2012 on funnymonkey.com

This look very promising. What would you tell a school that is wondering how it might organize staff support for such an installation, beyond submitting questions to the issue queue?

Richard Kassissieh, Mar 06 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Hello, Richard,

The issue queue on d.o is definitely not the place for staff support - it's a great organizational tool for people working on the distro (ie, helping with documentation, reporting any technical issues they see on an install, etc).

But, for general end users (aka, content maintainer/creator type folks) that would be best handled via a train the trainer model, where a small number of people in the school get up to speed with how to work in the site, and they can disseminate that knowledge to their colleagues.

One of the things on our roadmap between the current dev release and a point release is getting end user documentation in place (how to add a club, how to modify a menu, etc) - this documentation will live as a resource on d.o, but it also can be taken (once it exists :) ) and used as the basis of support documentation within a school.

From your perspective, what would schools need to be successful in implementing something like this?

bill, Mar 06 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Hi Bill,

Really good looking distribution. There is considerable need for something like this--it's been a topic of discussion here for some time and we're looking forward to spending some time with you in Denver.

Mark Bistline, Mar 06 2012 on funnymonkey.com

I think there is an audience for this distro beyond schools. Nice work!

Geoff Hankerson, Mar 08 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Can you describe all the modules and other components you are using, so we could extend an existing Drupal install the same way?

Gerardo Capiel, Mar 10 2012 on funnymonkey.com

You can get a full list of the modules used and all third party libraries from the release page at https://drupal.org/node/1463472

Julio is built in D7, and everything we used is freely available either with the distribution or the contrib modules we used.

bill, Mar 11 2012 on funnymonkey.com

You have done an amazing job building this distro, the theme looks so beautiful and professional, and the admin interface is very usable. I think this is a very good solution for many schools who doesn't have an IT expert onboard. This proves Drupal rocks!.

medios, Mar 15 2012 on funnymonkey.com

So pleased to see this in the wild - seems like a logical culmination of all the great work funny monkey has done with Drupal in the education field. Well done and cant wait to try it out.

Gregg Coppen, Mar 17 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Looks awesome, but Dl doesnt work...always page 404 error on https://drupal.org/project/julio

DoktorBaer, Mar 22 2012 on funnymonkey.com

I just downloaded the project off the project page, and off the release node, and had no issues.

And, I did it on really flaky hotel wireless :)

If this is something that you see again, please add it as an issue at https://drupal.org/project/issues/julio

Please include the time of day, the browser you are using, any error message you see, and information about how you are connecting to the internet.

Thanks!

bill, Mar 22 2012 on funnymonkey.com

This looks great - I work for a public K-12 school district and we are just getting ready to launch a site in drupal using a distribution designed for government, so it has required a lot of customization. Is this distribution intended for individual school sites or a district that wants a district site then using OG for individual school pages? Also, is there a demo site online anywhere to take a closer look? Thanks!

Diane Loomis, Apr 04 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Julio could be used to support individual school sites within a district, or a central district site that created individual pages for schools. The direction you went would be determined by how the district and schools are staffed, and by the needs of the schools within the district.

Generally, using separate sites for each school will provide individual schools with more flexibility, but depending on the size of the district having sites for each school this could put a support burden on staff if the sites were all managed by district personnel.

At this point, we do not have a demo site up and running.

bill, Apr 04 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Hi.

Having just installed Julio in AWS to evaluate, I logged out from the Drupal admin account and now can't seem to get back in using the Drupal normal login process - domain.com/?=user/login.

Being new to this, is there something I'm missing?

Thanks.

Andrew, Apr 20 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Julio doesn't change how people log in.

As part of the install process with Julio, you created two accounts: UID1, and then a second superuser account. We recommend using the second account for the day to day work in the site, and only using UID1 for module upgrades and other higher-level maintenance tasks.

In short, do a password reset for either account, and you should be able to see the login page by navigating to /user when logged out.

bill, Apr 20 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Hello. I'm looking for a CMS solution to apply to my class on our university graduation on Psychology. Our intention is to have a place to plan events, organize groups and share all our documents, seminars, questions and etc, separated by disciplines. From what I saw in the promo video and by reading the details about the project, Julio seems to be a good option for us - except for the forum part - but I still have some points that needs to be clarified before trying it:

1 - Does Julio supports the installation of a forum module, without much effort, specially when talking about future updates, both in the module itself as in the distro?

2 - Does this distro supports the upload of any file type, including pdf, docx and etc?

3 - Does this distro supports localization by the installation of localization modules(or patches, I don't know the term applied to Drupal), or I must translate it module by module? (The language is Brazilian Portuguese)

Best Regards,

Thanks! :)

Raul Carvalho, Apr 26 2012 on funnymonkey.com

RE the forum module, that could be done, but the base functionality of Julio is designed to support a public-facing web site. Introducing a forum, while it is technically possible, introduces the possibility of an additional type of user: a forum participant that could only participate on one specific section of the site.

However, given that Julio is already built to support groups (as each section of the site is actually its own group/area) the foundation is there.

RE file uploads, the types of files that can be uploaded can be extended as needed. The defaults support both pdf and docx, among others.

RE localization, Julio is built on Drupal, and the core multi-lingual capabilities of Drupal can be extended using https://drupal.org/project/i18n

bill, May 04 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Hi Bill,

Thanks so much for the fantastic distribution. How would you recommend I evaluate it in comparison to Open Academy?

Amenity, May 15 2012 on funnymonkey.com

I'd start by comparing the goals you would like to achieve, and seeing which distribution came closer to meeting those needs.

bill, May 15 2012 on funnymonkey.com

I am having trouble downloading from the drupal site, http://drupal.org/project/julio .
I have tried from both Chrome and IE and both give me either a "not found" or 404 page.
I have tried this from work and from home and neither works.

Animal, May 21 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Hello,

The download link is now working.

The downloads have intermittently been interrupted due to this issue: https://drupal.org/node/1472052

Sorry for the hassle.

bill, May 23 2012 on funnymonkey.com

If you download and enable the admin_menu module

(drush dl admin_menu
drush en admin_menu)

You can do whatever you want, like activating the core forum module. In this way you can use a distribution as a starting point for developing your own site without the limitations of the distribution.

Peter, Jun 02 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Well after viewing this i am motivated to use Julio. I have deleted the current site look and working on Julio. Hope support is as good as this Video.

Baqar, Jun 29 2012 on funnymonkey.com

See http://funnymonkey.com/julio-documentation-demo-support for more ways to connect with different options for support.

bill, Jun 29 2012 on funnymonkey.com

Thank you for Julio - it's very impressive and it's ease of use is great for the .edu install we're looking at

Is it possible to configure other admin menu options like Structure/Configuration/Reports etc?

Are there options for importing existing events into the calendar (sorry couldn't find in docs)

Thanks again Bill, well done

Neil, Jul 21 2012 on funnymonkey.com

The admin menu can be configured; we hide the options from most users to prevent them from making changes that will interfere with the smooth running of the site.

For importing calendar events, I'd look at the options provided by the feeds module.

Unfortunately, the dedicated ical parser has not been updated to D7, but I would be surprised if events couldn't be imported using standard feeds options.

Although, I have yet to try this myself.

bill, Jul 22 2012 on funnymonkey.com

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absolutely useful and it has helped me out loads. I'm hoping to give a contribution & assist other users like its aided me. Good job.

Kelly, Aug 17 2013 on funnymonkey.com

I would like to add 2 more fields in the New User Registeration Page , city and country , Drupal tutorial to add more fields , Config->People ->Account setting s->Manage fields , I don't have the Mange fields menu although that is included in Drupal original distribution , is there any way I can have access to Manage fields , if not what option I have to edit the user registeration page and add 2 more fields , Thank you so much

Rania, Mar 28 2014 on funnymonkey.com

Hi guys,
Been looking at various distributions related to the education sector. Julio seems to be a good fit for some of the core requirements however I am a little reluctant to use Julio as a base distribution for starting point based on the number of unresolved bugs and issues. Is there going to be an update on this release any time soon? Thank you and keep up the good work.
Best regards.

Alpay Beler, Aug 03 2014 on funnymonkey.com

We built and released Julio when we had a collection of projects that needed the basic toolset.

Unless we get a project where it makes sense to use Julio as a starting point, we won't be putting significant dev hours towards an update.

bill, Aug 07 2014 on funnymonkey.com

I have installed Julio 7.x-1.x-dev locally within a OpenSuse 12.3 configured I3 PC. I have installed all modules and updated Drupal to the latest 7.31 version. Many Media modules complain that Media_bulk_upload is missing and I cannot find that module - however I did find a "bulk_media_upload" module - installing this does not overcome the problem.

Please note I am a new to Drupal and feel a little remiss at seeking an answer in this way but I have exhausted all other avenues I've tried.

Can you help at all please? A response to bflemingaus@netscape.net will be appreciated.

regards

Bruce Fleming, Aug 30 2014 on funnymonkey.com

This is actually a bug/incompatibility in Media module - the Media Gallery module does not work with the 2.x branch of the Media module.

This issue has more details: https://www.drupal.org/node/2201545

The workaround for this is to use the 1.x branch of the Media module.

bill, Sep 01 2014 on funnymonkey.com