nonprofits

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!

Raised Eyebrow Web Studio, based in Vancouver BC, creates beautiful, accessible, and user-friendly websites for nonprofits and small businesses. We are seeking an experienced PHP/Drupal Developer. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and experience working on smaller teams — we are currently a 4 person studio.

Responsibilities:

You will work closely with our Front-End Developer to produce robust, beautifully-coded websites (mostly Drupal-based) for our clients.Your work will include:

Minneapolis is a Drupal hot-bed of activity this summer!

Drupal Daze, sponsored by Open Circuit, is scheduled for July 19th and 20th. Here, you can get 2 days of Drupal education by gurus around the area. Check out the presentation schedule and registration info at http://www.drupaldaze.com.

Advantage Labs is conducting a special 5-week Nonprofit Drupal Website Training Class specifically designed for a small group of nonprofits. It starts Aug 5th and is limited to 8 nonprofit organizations. By the end of the class, each nonprofit will have their own basic website, nonprofit Drupal training AND 6 months of Advantage Lab's Drupal Alliance program. Check out the full details at: Nonprofit Drupal Training: Build Your Own Basic Nonprofit Website.

AND, of course - this group, The Twin Cities Drupal Users Group, where the TC Posse is taking over and doing lightening talks at the TC Drupal User Group meeting on July 23rd. Find out all about TC Posse and their cunning plans at: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12588 .

Hope to see you soon at one or all of these meetings. Stay cool - with Drupal!

I am posting to ask two questions regarding nonprofits, consultants and Drupal
shops, and the general direction Drupal is headed.  In short, I'd like to
hear your thoughts on whether Drupal is heading in a direction that benefits
nonprofits or leaves many behind. I feel that I need a disclaimer: I'm asking
these questions because I don't know the answer and think some of you will have
great feedback that helps answer the questions, and more importantly improve
Drupal and its community.<br/>

1. Is Drupal development getting too expensive, and as a result, pricing many
   smaller (Drupal entry level) NPOs out?
2. Is the professionalization of Drupal -- more modules and themes being
   developed by Drupal shops for paid jobs -- causing more modules, themes and
   improvements to get back to the community and Drupal.org?  Or, are more
   and more improvements becoming for clients only?

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