publishing

I am currently looking for an experienced Drupal developer to work on or consult on 2 projects:

1. Maintenance work & upgrades on an existing Drupal 5.1 retail site (http://everywheremaps.com);
2. Transferring an existing (news publishing) site onto a Drupal setup. The new site will have the following components: user management (protect private content areas), content sydication (for both public users and subscribed users); searchable archive for public content; and ad serving.

Please forward your work experience, availability & hourly rate to info [at] thecreationprocess [dot] com.

As a result of the recent TechMeet meeting that happened last Sunday, it has been decided to revive the Imc-CMS discussion and to try and pick a CMS to focus indymedia developer attention to.

I volunteered to try and coordinate it with whoever else wants to help.

They are trying to have this info ready by December 1st.

The other teams are the IndyPlone and a lot of IMCistas trying to develop a code-base from scratch with CakePHP.

The goal:

• work on an environment they assigment for and investigate it
• collect the pros and cons

I recently posted a long article on music publishing that was inspired by the various discussions we've been having in this group (from Dubs comments especially). The basic points made in case you don't want to read the whole thing:

1) Do-it-yourself Publishing

Three things have conspired recently to make me revive this concept, which I haven't worked on for a few months.

1) Lisa asked What would you do with [grant] money?

2) Then she mentioned the Tearsheet idea to Amy Gahran of the Poynter Institute. (Who previously published an interview with NoD member and Knight recipient Benjamin Melançon).