Arcology
We are working to redevelop an existing drupal site for the Arcology Alumni Network. We are roughly 6000 people around the globe who support and want to further the development of Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti project and Arcology in general. We believe that a Drupal empowered community can better organize to carry out our mission.
phone meeting; initial configuration
George and I talked for 30 minutes this morning trying to wrap our heads around site config, coordination and version control, and modules and other general alumni happenings. We concluded that we think it is realistic that we get a 'brochure' site polished and running before Paolo's 90th gathering at Arco in mid June.
Creating custom user profiles, D6
We are working on an alumni site and we would like to extend the drupal profile to our specs. We want to populate the profile with very basic information; name, and email address, and then notify the alum of their account being created. We then want them to be able to log in and add information at their discretion, and ideally also expose it to certain user roles at their discretion.
some of my writing on the subject
I did some writing about my ideas on social media and it's role in society formation and organization. Just wanted to share it here. Features a picture I took of Paolo Soleri in 2006 while we were working at Cosanti on a nice new earth casting they were adding onto the existing ceramics area.
http://plumbob.org/Arcosanti_alumni
New site went live
OK, so it's been a while, but we are back working on the arcosanti alumni site at www.arcosantialumninetwork.org. It has been a long drought, but the timing is better this time as all of the key D6 modules are in official release and we as a team are more ready to work on it now.
Test Site 1.0
I've finally got a 1.0 release of the Alumni site up and running on a dev environment. We decided to migrate the site from D5 to D6 now since we were basically at the ground floor. This was a tricky decision because there are definitely lots of modules that are still in development that are pretty critical for any drupal site. However, Views and CCK are getting very close and a few others will follow close behind them once they are ready.
Drupal and Arcology
We are getting together to talk about our alumni network and how we can use Drupal to re-launch the website. I'm sure we will be talking about Arcology and Arcosanti in general, and how social media might empower our alumni to organize and act on ideas for furthering the Arcology concept.
If you are interested in Arcology, or even ecological design in architecture and urban development, we'd love to hear from you. We'll be meeting at Mission City coffee in Santa Clara.
Cheers
