community organizing

To help group organizers meet eachother and share their knowledge, tips & ticks for organizing and motivating drupal groups i've launched a new drupal irc channel #drupal-groups.

I encourage everyone to join this channel to discuss how to improve user participation in drupal groups and other helpful information.

I strongly encourage group members to join in on the discussion because group organizers are doing this for YOU. Having your feedback on various issues will help us greatly improve different aspects of the group that matter to you most.

SEE YOU THERE!

Hi folks,

I began working on a side project a month or so ago to create a system with Drupal that will allow organizers to collaboratively manage volunteers, events and field operations. I have been surprised by the demand for a system like this and I would like to take this past idea stage and formalize a fork of Drupal for campaigns/organizations.

The general functionality I am looking to build in (some of which is completed) is:
1) Calendar
2) Management of campaign requests
2) Task management
3) Volunteer database

Hello everyone,

Some friends and I are puting together an "drupal academy" in spanish, where we will be creating screencasts and providing them for free to the community, and we'd like to learn from your experience here at dojo.

As all this will b on our free time of course, we don't want to "get our fingers stuck in the door" timewise, and stil provide with nice useful content.

Merci pour avoir participé à notre petit dîner que j'espère annoncera une activité plus soutenu de la petite communauté Drupal française. On a quand même été 16 participants, sans communication aucune! Je liste ci-bas les noms et les adresses de participants pour faciliter le contact. On va continuer nos discussions sur groups.drupal.org/france. J'espère qu'un compte rendu plus complet va suivre, mais je note ce que je crois avoir été nos décisions principales:

I am looking for an experienced PHP / Drupal developer

Caros,

Gostaria de comunicar que nosso novo canal de IRC está criado...

Quem tiver acesso, entre lá.

Rede Freenode: irc.freenode.net
Canal: #drupal-br

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Howdy,

This spring I've been building a drupal website, and although I've talked with a couple folks in the Portland group, I haven't put it out here on the group list, so here it is - http://www.pdxpeace.org

The PDX Peace site is for a new coalition of peace/antiwar/social justice groups and individuals in Portland, formed during the organizing of the peace rally/march on 4/18/07 on the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. We're gearing up the website to be a resource for community organizing.

A priority right now is integrating CiviCRM as a organizing database - connected to the login - and be able to collect information from people while they are signing up - I somehow can't seem to manage getting a form from CiviCRM showing up in the registration page (instead of the webform we have now to 'join').

Other obvious 'to-do' items might be using OG for action groups, or use of views/cck, or Panel views for better organized front page items. I'm currently running this site on shared dreamhost server, but but thinking about getting it on an environment that might be better for running civicrm (bryght?).

Any comments, suggestions, ideas/tips or best practices for community organizing drupal websites, would be much appreciated. And if anyone is interested in helping out with the nuts and bolts of CiviCRM or pointing to the right place for information would be helpful.

For those of you who weren't able to attend this week's Drupal User Group Event, the main topic of discussion was community building.

I came across this article while reading over my blogroll today and felt it was on-topic enough to share with this group. It ventures a little bit into the area of users versus customers, but I believe many of the ideas are the same. An online community is a group of "browsers" and "members". To encourage movement from the "browser" to the "member" level, you much create a sense of belonging in the "browser".

Read on below:

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/a_transaction_makes_a_customer.php