REQUESTING INPUT DRUPAL IN AFRICA

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yoniwiz's picture

Hello All,

PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE OR TWO TO READ THIS

I am a high school student in American participating in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest 2007 (http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/) and am working on a task for Drupal. The task is to research how Drupal is used in Africa to demonstrate that Drupal is used worldwide.

I am posting this to you either because you are an Africa group, have an African Drupal site, or have been using Drupal for a while and are knowledgeable (or all of the above).

I figured you would be a great resource to tap into since you live in Africa and would know most about this. If anyone here has sites I would love to see them (also I presume since you are in the Drupal community and live in Africa you might know of other African Drupal sites and if you do please please please post them or email me!) I have already discovered a few on my own and in addition to any others that you have I would really appreciate if you could take just a moment and browse the following Drupal websites based in Africa. If you see anything that you particualrly like please post back or email me with your favorite and what you liked about it. If possible please include what the site does that makes good use of Drupal features.

An example of this would be Liberdadi because it uses Drupal, connects to the community in a creative way that helps the community keep in touch and up to date and is well organized. (information on uses of Drupal features would be great too but I am not familiar enough with the features of drupal to identify them myself)

It would be a HUGE help if you could take a few moments to do this and it would help publicize your sites and get them more publicity/hits too!!!

The sites that I already have are:
+ Liberdadi - The Voice of Cabo Verde's People
+ Filmmaker
+ Suuch Solutions
+ Burtronix - Drupal Programming and Web Development (South Africa)
+ Free High School Science Texts (South Africa)

Summary: Please visit these sites and write me a review of which you like and why. Also it would be amazing if you could say what Drupal features they use well and what makes them uniquely African (if anything). Finally, if you know of other African Drupal sites please link me to them and include the same information as you would if you were doing one of the above sites.

also there is a deadline on this so the sooner you can get back to me the better!!

Many thanks in advance and the more people who do this the better!!!!!!

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Liberdadi

funana's picture

Hello,

thank you very much for your interest in Liberdadi.com. Although we are really beta I appreciate your choice for seeing Liberdadi as an example.
I will soon send you a list of our features and modules which we use. If you receive no email from me within the next 7 days, please remind me. I have a lot to do right now, but I definitely want to help you the best I can.

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Tanzania

zumbe's picture

Hamjambo?

Based in Tanzania I've been trying to learn Drupal for a couple of years now, but never seem to find the time to do it properly.

Some sites I've started, more or less functioning but in need of more attention, work, skills than I can provide for the moment:
http://uhurumaoni.org (archive of tv and radio spots for freedom of speech campaign by NGO HakiElimu)
http://hyenasquare.org (documentary by Maweni Farm)
http://birds.intanzania.com (birding blog by interesting nature writer)

Anybody working on a Swahili translation?

thanks

yoniwiz's picture

thanks for the positive responses and I really look forward to future chats :-)

It's great to see Drupal being used for such local causes internationally!

Results?

ezra-g's picture

Where can we see the results of your research? I'm very interested to find out about what you learned!

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