Drupal for Good

Hi Folks,

Wanted to send out a reminder that the DC CiviCRM Meetup will be meeting tomorrow, June 24th at 6:00pm. A very special thanks to the folks over at HacDC for sponsoring this meetup and providing the meeting space. The meetup will be at the general HacDC meetup location:

HacDC
1525 Newton St NW
Washington, DC 20010

We are going to have two presentations:

1) I will do a demo of CiviCRM and Ubercart integration Trellon has done for a recent project

2) Andrew Hunt of AGH Strategies will demo Joomla integration with CiviCRM

Hi there,

Recently I've been reviewing mapping modules for a NGO's Drupal6 website in Germany.

They want to be able to do something very simple: add an address (possibly via CCK Address or a simple text field) to a node (of type event, but selfmade, not via Event module). A map should show up in the full view of that node, having a marker at the place they specified.

Hello, I am looking for examples of Drupal sites used by citizens to engage their government and government sites to engage citizens.

http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org
http://www.cirm.ca.gov/?q=node/8 California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Public Section

Can anyone recommend some good examples?

For over a year LA Drupal has been recording our meetings and many of our events. View the videos online... http://drupal-la.blip.tv

Subscribe to our video podcast... http://drupal-la.blip.tv/rss (available directly on iTunes too)

We provide these videos for free for people to learn Drupal of course. Over the next handful of weeks you will see us release videos from our meetings and DrupalCampLA '08. Learn the basics of Drupal, theme design, module development, advanced views, Services module (Flash + Drupal), and many, many more topics all relating to Drupal.

Follow us on twitter... www.twitter.com/ladrupal

Hi folks,

Trellon is beginning work on a new book about building effective social networks and social media platforms using Drupal. We are looking for an organization that would be interesed in having us build out a social networking platform for them to build stronger relationships with their constituents. All we ask in return is that you allow us to use the platform as the example site for our book. You can read more details below.

Last week I was at the NTEN conference. We were missing a slide show of all the great Drupal sites that have been built with Drupal.

We have slideshows for great Drupal sites, great education sites, great library sites, and great publishing sites. But not for Non-profits. Please put add the best non-profit Drupal sites to the this wiki page. If you want to help build the slideshow, let me know and I'll walk you through the process.

Drupal non-profit sites:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/16107 has a good list
also look at http://drupal.org/node/136716

Sun Microsystems, Acquia and Code Positive are pleased to invite you to a half day event focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in education.

The session will cover a number of topics relevant to the deployment of Drupal in education:

• Suitability of Drupal for brochure websites, course management and delivery, community building, and sharing of information
• Which versions of Drupal to use and the recommended modules based upon your needs
• Designing and implementing the right architecture to meet scalability and security requirements
• Commercial, Enterprise Class support and services available for Drupal and associate infrastructure

Whether you are evaluating Drupal or running in production, this is a great opportunity to learn more about Drupal deployments, put your questions to the experts, and connect with the London Drupal community.

Drupal For education is free, but event registration is required:

Causecast.org

Job Type & Location: Contract to Full-time. Santa Monica, CA

Job Description: Immediate opening for contract to full time Drupal Developer to work on Causecast's migration to Drupal. If you want a job that makes a difference, Causecast is the place for you. We are working with dozens of nonprofits, the Obama administration, companies and activists as well as Hollywood and the media. We're giving nonprofits new ways to raise funds and become far more efficient. Company is funded and run by an experienced entrepreneur and former CTO... We get the tech.

International Non-profit Association (Glocal Business Network) seeks Drupal programmer/webmaster

About the job:
• website development with Drupal (see hhtp://mygbn.org and http://gbnonline.org to see what’s already done) and the job of a webmaster
• as we are non-profit, it’s not about the money, but as sponsors arrive, you will be paid for your job
• only committed and motivated people are welcome, with a long-term orientation (similar to our attitude)
• you should form a team, so you could divide up all the work to make it easier

Hi folks,

The first DC CiviCRM Meetup this past Wednesday had a great showing. We had over 25 people who came out to talk about the system, where it is going, and how various organizations are implementing the CRM.

We discussed the need for both training and networking sessions, and have decided to hold two Meetups each month. In two weeks, on May 6th at 6:30pm, we will hold an "Introduction to CiviCRM" session. We are still looking for a location to hold this session, so please send me any recommendations on conference rooms we can use that can seat about 30 people.

Hi folks,

Just a quick reminder that the DC CiviCRM Meetup will hold it's first meeting this Wednesday, April 22nd from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at The Black Squirrel in Adams Morgan. We will have a Speed Show and Tell, giving each presenter 5 minutes to give a visual or spoken presentation about what they are doing with CiviCRM. This is a great opportunity to come
out and learn about the CiviCRM project, how people are using the system within their organizations, and meet other CiviCRM users and developers in the DC/VA/MD area. If you would like to present, please come prepared with a laptop.

If you work with Drupal in a non-profit/social change setting, are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are planning to attend the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference this month, I'd like to invite you to the "Drupal For Good - San Francisco Bay Area" session that I'll be leading on Sunday afternoon. This should be a fun opportunity to find out what's cooking in the local non-profit Drupal scene and meet our fellow Bay Area Drupal do-gooders face-to-face. Read on for details...

Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009,
right before the NTC. We'd love to see you there!

Penguin Days are designed to let nonprofits and social justice activists
learn about free and open source software that can support their work
and potentially save them money, including tools for web publishing,
fundraising, blogging, and campaigning.

Full details are at www.penguinday.org. Thanks to the generosity of
Google, we're delighted to grant fee waivers to anyone who needs one!

We are currently developing "Equality Central" with the goal of establishing a clearinghouse for all events, organizations, campaigns, resources for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) equal rights and justice movement. We have "buy-in" from major grassroots organizations in California and have built a beta website. We need Drupal developers and designers who can help develop the website. We are focusing on California, but this could become the national, grassroots hub for LGBTQ activism.

Please let me know if you are interested.

As the economic downturn becomes more pronounced and people begin to realize that government alone cannot help solve the problem, there is a growing awareness of the need for community and connection. We are developing a plug-in portal for individuals, groups, and organizations that want to create a better world through direct help to one another. It is an online city-specific community that is part social network and part CMS that connects those that need help with those that want to help.

Hi folks,

I put a feeler out on a couple of listserves earlier today about starting a DC CiviCRM user group and got a good response. I went ahead and started a Meetup and am planning the first Meetup for April 22nd at 6:30pm at the Black Squirrel in Adams Morgan.

You can sign up for the Meetup group at: http://www.meetup.com/dc-civicrm-meetup/

Drupal For NGOs is a monthly series of events aimed at empowering NGOs to implement and manage their websites by knowing which modules to use and how to configure them. Each month will cover a topic in detail, showcase recent projects, and feature a Drupal question and answer session.

Which topic is covered each month will be decided by a poll, so if there's something you'd like to know more about please cast your vote or make a suggestion.

Sun Microsystems is hosting this month's Drupal For NGOs, and will also be providing presentations on Scaling And Optimising MySQL and Backing Up MySQL Data.

We will also be giving away two Drupal books that Packt Publishing have generously contributed:

• Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions
• Building Powerful And Robust Websites With Drupal 6

Get A Ticket

The event is free, but you will need to RSVP if you would like to attend.

Make a difference – help develop NABUUR, the Global Neighbour Network

If you like to work with diverse people, and develop tools that really matter, NABUUR could be the place for you.

Nabuur.com is an online volunteering platform that links Neighbours (online volunteers) with Villages (local communities) in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Connected through Nabuur.com, Neighbours and local communities learn about each other, share ideas and find solutions to local issues.

The sf_node and sf_user modules are great.

What I would like to see (and what I'm going to have to build for a few upcoming projects) is a sf_taxonomy module.

In essence, I see this as tying a SalesForce picklist value set to a Drupal vocabulary.

The biggest hurdle, imho, is that SalesForce picklists are specific to single object types, where as Drupal vocabularies are site-wide.

Given that, will this idea even float?
What are peoples' thoughts about ways to work around this particular obstacle?
What are some other obstacles?
Is anyone interested in pitching in?

Here's an event in San Francisco that may be of interest to nonprofit Drupallers. There are some Drupal/CMS sessions on the agenda. I'm trying to get a "Bay Area Drupal for Good" birds-of-a-feather session included, as well - I'll keep local folks posted, if it happens. The conference is held in a different city every year, so if you're local to the Bay Area, this year is a good opportunity to go. Note that the registration fee goes up if you register after March 13.

2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference
April 26-28, 2009
San Francisco Hilton

Can Drupal save the world? Does this Drupal movement have a mission? Is Drupal moral?

Help me answer these question. I volunteer with a small, DC-based human-rights group. They run an overtaxed Wordpress site on a an overtaxed server. They have a new, better host. But I was thinking this week would be a perfect opportunity to help a needy non-profit, move the site to drupal, and answer the above questions.

Current site: http://uscampaignforburma.org/

Are you staying in DC on Saturday? Can you lend a few hours? Here's what I think we need:

The Eclipse foundation is relaunching their Eclipse PlugIn Central (EPIC) plugin repository site in Drupal. Help them make it rock by analyzing their requirements document and giving them the best tips possible. A large number of Drupal developers use Eclipse as their IDE and we owe them a debt of gratitude. Help make EPIC rock!

See here:
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/
http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/epic-20/
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPICModernization

EPIC Modernization Requirements Document V 0.1

What this Job is All About?

Project managers are leaders in our delivery process, and work with Technical Leads and Internet Strategists to deliver outstanding solutions for our clients. Here's what we expect from someone in this role:

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What This Job is All About

Drupal Developers are important actors in our delivery process. Here's what we expect them to do:

• Understand the goals and strategy behind each project from conception through completion. Our thoughtful, dedicated approach to working with clients is what sets us apart. Lead developers help make sure each project meets or exceeds the goals we set out to achieve.
http://trellon.com/explore/job-openings/drupal-developer

We are kick starting this year's DRUPAL meetup with a discussion on something that will matter the most in the coming months: Your Customers and Relationships

For DRUPAL, CiviCRM has long filled this position as one of the top performing eCRM systems.
CiviCRM has been very well integrated with DRUPAL and powers many organizations and non profits for managing their customers, contacts, events, volunteers and fund raising efforts.

Come join an engaging session with Dave Greenberg (Founder of CiviCRM) on Feb 19th at Halosys (Manhattan Conference room)

About CiviCRM

Are you a Drupal ninja? Do you want to use your skills in service of a greater good?

We're looking for a benevolent code-shredder who can help run an international campaign to stop the climate crisis. Our small and nimble crew coordinate 350.org, a new internationalized platform to link up the pieces of the growing global movement to stop the climate crisis. We're a young team that moves quickly, and we seek an engineer who can match us in enthusiasm, efficiency, and dedication.

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) is seeking an energetic, creative person to help transition to our new web site. As we migrate from static HTML to a new Drupal web site, we are in need of help managing and organizing our content. Actual website design and development will be handled by a separate contractor. This position reports directly to FOR's Co-Director of Communications. This temporary position will be part time for approximately 2 to 4 months. We expect the work to take at least 20 to 40 hours.

This position will focus on these tasks:

Company in Washington DC growing a social networking site seeks skilled Drupal developer(s) for project-based work.
We have projects for additional modules for a social networking site and need a skilled Drupal developer to jump in and help us prototype, develop, launch and iterate.

You must be local (i.e. not be an off-shore outsourcing firm!) and be able to provide project based bids with time-lines and milestones, payment will be based on milestone completion.

Knowledge of:
Social media (UGC, Blogging, Voting/Rating etc.)

Hi, last year Drupal was the most popular and one of the highest rated content management systems in the Non-profit CMS report. The report last year was done by NTEN.

If you are interested in getting your business listed as a sponsor for this report by Idealware, please visit http://www.idealware.org/os_cms_report_sponsors.php.

Shelter Centre

Closing date: 12th February 2009
Location: Geneva

Contract duration: From six to twelve months starting on 1st March 2009
Paid internship

Shelter Centre Profile

Shelter Centre is a non-governmental organisation registered in Switzerland which supports the sector of humanitarian operations that responds to the transitional settlement and reconstruction needs of populations affected by conflicts and natural disasters, from the emergency phase until durable solutions are reached.

Context and Background

AASHE is looking for an IT intern who will help with the development of our website and online resource center.

We are looking for candidates who have experience working with Drupal or a desire to learn more about Drupal.

The IT intern will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, such as:

• Creating a multimedia library where users can watch sustainability videos and listen to podcasts
• Turning the AASHE Bulletin into an interactive, browsable database

Hello,

I’m building with Drupal 6.9 a multilingual (English, Hebrew, Arab, Greek & Turkish) site for a Middle Eastern NGO (http://b1.mideastpan.org).

Setting of a multilingual site with I18 pack was, for a non-programmer ‘Drupal newbie’, pretty straightforward. It seems that content translation and switching between interface & menu languages are working fine (Bravo).

After setting a forum, the following ‘strange’ problems appear:

Hey fellow Drupal for Good members, I'm looking for advice on photo integration.

Modules we've been playing around with make it easy to create simple thumbnail galleries and display images in a lightbox when selected, but they don't facilitate captions with individual photos when they're displayed as thumbnails or in the lightbox.

Has anyone seen any good examples they can point to?

Mobile Voices (http://vozmob.net) is a digital storytelling network for first-generation immigrants in Los Angeles. We use affordable mobile phones, Free and Open Source Software, and popular communication pedagogy to build tools and skills with day laborers and other low-wage immigrant workers. The project is a partnership between the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (http://idepsca.org) and the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication (http://annenberg.usc.edu).

I'd like let you all know about an upcoming Net Tuesday event (January 6th, at 6:30pm at Indy Hall) on Nonprofit Blogging. Go to this page for details and to RSVP.

This might be of interest for Drupal developers who build sites for nonprofits.

Thanks and hope to see you there.

(BTW -- I'm including this post in the "Drupal for Good" group too, in case those of you outside the Philly area might want to put together a similar event in your area)

Thanks and Happy New Year

Sam

Grand Junction Design (“GJD”) is looking for a friendly, organized, and thoroughly competent webmaster / web developer to fill a full-time position in a comfortable office environment in Takoma Park, MD, with the possibility of some telecommuting. The position will begin as soon as possible.

WORK DESCRIPTION
The developer will work as part of a small team of webmasters, developers, and designers providing web and print services to progressive nonprofits. Drupal will be the basis for the web sites. Work will include:
* Installing and configuring Drupal and modules;

Hi All,
I am building a website for events and news related the protests over the passage of Prop 8 in California. I really need people to help out. Please contact me if you are interested.
Thanks,
David

noon8campaign.org

PLoS is an open-access academic journal.

Many online academic journals use a standard named COUNTER to analyze and report traffic statistics.

PLoS is looking for a developer to extend our COUNTER-compliant log-analysis scripts (php-cli) and our reporting application (drupal).

Please see attached statement of work, and email ruman at plos dot org if interested.

We've done a good job of queuing up high profile and good looking case studies lately. Now it's time to get back to those uses of Drupal that make a real difference in the world. It's what many people in the Drupal community are motivated by.

If you've got a case study about using Drupal to make a difference, l will work with you to develop it.

Thanks to Dries for the reminder.

Is Anyone in these groups attending the non-profit tech dev summit in Oakland(California) next month? Aspiration Tech is hosting it and the site is running Drupal. There seems to be some Drupal presence in the sessions too, but just wanted to get a better feel in the groups as too the extent of the Drupal presence and any other thoughts on it.
cheers
tim

Our video channel (provided by Blip.tv) allows us to broadcast our videos in a feed for you, iTunes, Yahoo, and Adobe's Media Player. I've spent some time massaging these settings and we're now live on iTunes under the Podcast section. Subscribe or just feel free to download videos there.

The first videos that are listed are our May 2008 recordings of Scott Nelson covering the Services module and AMFPHP module (four parts).

Folks,

I am currently working on a couple of volunteer projects related to the elections, drupal and Obama. If you are interested in putting your skills to use in this regard please give me a shout (privately) asap.

I'm looking for the following -

• Drupal admin and light system admin
• Light Drupal programming and themeing
• Graphic design (I need a simple banner and some other graphical elements very quickly)

This is ideal for either:

Forwarding this really cool opportunity to join the Democracy Now! team in New York. If you're a Linux Systems Admin with Drupal experience, this sounds like a fantastic opportunity to join a driven team of smart, passionate people working for justice. One of the responsibilities would be to develop new internal and public websites for them: sounds like Drupal would be a great fit!

Here's the info. It was taken from http://www.democracynow.org/about/jobs#sysadmin

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Immediate opening for full-time Systems Administrator

This is easy and quick, nothing fancy, no voting - just post your session idea (title) and your name/contact info and show up to present that day! We have sessions open from 10am-2pm each day (Saturday and Sunday) and each session should plan for 45 minutes each.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/12528 (edit wiki page)

If you can't see or edit the wiki page, be sure to join our group which may be required for editing the wiki page.

I've had some time and some funding, so I've roughed in my proof of concept on a D6 version of Geo. In traditional geek style, the most informative descriptions are in my commit messages: http://drupal.org/project/cvs/147736

Basically, my goal is to demystify "geospatial", while integrating it as much as possible within Drupal. It needn't be an academic exercise to get this data working properly, so I've tried to keep things simple. The goals/implementation do the following:

Made some progress last night with the Drupal Media Player that I blogged about recently. Dynamic logos!

You have to go to my blog to see the action.

This was created with an hour of tweaking the OpenLaszlo XML, and then pasting the following into this node: print theme('media_player_player', 'http://spindowners.com/files.dm/videos/20051210-w50s.flv', array('logo' => '/sites/aaronwinborn.com/files/my-logo.png');

Couldn't be simpler! I see a dev release as soon as we have an icon for the play button!

Of course, playlists and the like will take more. We've talked about including several players, including a light-weight and one with all the bells & whistles, and have the module call the proper one according to passed parameters.

www.babelup.com

BabelUp is a social network for social activism. That is, it's a fun community to hang out in with friends and discuss global issues. BabelUp hosts forums, user blogs, image galleries, real-time chatting, groups, calendars, and lots of other features you'd expect to find in a well-designed (hopefully) social network.

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A community effort to help a NGO get some ass-kicking internet presence — October 4th and 5th, 2008 — Paris, La Cantine Numérique

On the first weekend of October 2008, in only 2 days, the Drupal French Community will build a complete and live website for a selected NGO. All free. Free as in free beer, and free as in free speech.

What’s in it for the selected NGO?

You do not have an internet presence? You have a very lousy one? You want to to do a specific incredibly cool thing on the web?

Dear Drupal for Good Community,

Our non-profit, The Collaboration Foundation, is a finalist for a $10,000 online 'Ideablob' grant. We need votes to win. The grant would be used to build an innovative non-profit Drupal site that will look like this: http://collaborationfoundation.org/images/web/cf_home.jpg

Please vote here:
http://ideablob.com/ideas/1247-The-Collaboration-Foundation-C

About The Collaboration Foundation

The Media Code Sprint is underway! Here's a cross-post from my blog detailing the goals of this sprint, which runs through Saturday. We need your help!

Andrew Morton (drewish), Darrel O'Pry (dopry, remotely), and I are heading up a Media Code Sprint in Portland this week! Come help, in person or remotely, if you're interested in multimedia and Drupal! It has now officially started, and as I've volunteered to help keep folks updated, here goes...

First the reasons.

Number One: Better Media Handling in Core

Dries conducted a survey prior to his State of Drupal presentation at Boston Drupalcon 2008, and number one on the top ten (or 11) list of what would make THE KILLER DRUPAL 7 Release was "Better media handling".

Let me repeat that. Better media handling.

People have done really amazing stuff in contrib, but it is difficult (if not impossible in many cases) for developers to coordinate the use of files, as there is no good means for file handling in the core of Drupal. Thus, we have several dozen (or more) media modules doing some small part, or even duplicating functionality, sometimes out of necessity.

We need (better) media and file handling in Drupal core. In particular, there has been a patch for a hook_file in the queue for over a year, which has been in the Patch Spotlight (for the second time, no less) since May! (And has been RTBC several times during that process...) Come on folks.

One of the powers of Drupal is its system of hooks. We have hooks to modify nodes, to notify changes to user objects, to alter nearly any data (such as forms and menus). Noticeably absent is a consistent handling for files or any sort of notification. We need hook_file.

So goal Number One: get media handling in core. The means? Add hook_file and make files into a 1st class Drupal object. We'll be creating a test suite for functionality in the hook_file patch to validate it and "grease the wheels" to get it committed.

The other goals of this sprint pale in comparison to the first in utility, but are still highly desirable and worthwhile.

Number Two: Refactor File Functionality in Core