Scouting/Guiding

Hi, I'm going to turn this into a bit of a support forum, so let me know if I should take this question back to, say, the support forums :-)

My scouting site, under development, is:
http://www.pqpack621.org.

I'd love to get a sense of what works for the other scouting sites out there.

I'm new to Drupal, and I came to it in the middle of setting up a site for my son's Cub Scout pack. I'm hoping that each of the den leaders will be able to post their meeting and event announcements. I'm gradually adding in modules that I think I'll need.

the question:
I'd like the dens to be able to see their own events, but also be able to see the pack-wide events. I was planning to build some filters onto the individual Den pages so that the event listings would have the right stuff. But it sounds like Organic Groups handles some of that.

JOTI 2006 will be running 21-22 october this year

http://www.scout.org/wse/joti.shtml

I've run a few JOTI competitions before - but these were custom coded. They were based on a set of questions to be answered, plus online chat between the teams, and the ability to use lifelines (yes - very who wants to be a millionaire I know) - get a hint, ask another team and ask all other teams.

I won't be running one this year due to personal time constraints (although I will probably be in the JOTI IRC channels on the 21st).

However - I'd be interested to hear if any others will be running anything special for JOTI/JOTA this year - and if so - will it be integrated into a drupal based site?

Well, as an active leader in the Longship group (www.longship.org) I got the suggestion for the group from David, an ex-longshipper who is now an active leader with 4th Caterham (http://www.4thcaterham.org.uk/).

Longship is running drupal, Caterham is looking at switching.

It seems that drupal is a good match for such youth group sites - so - here's a group to allow discussion on what works well, what not so well - a place to ask questions and to exchange ideas.

I have a feeling that drupal is also well suited to large events - think for example about JOTI, or a site during and after a jamboree.