barnraising

So we had the Drupal Extreme Makeover a couple of weekends ago. We'll be hosting a follow-up DrupalMentor session for these new users to learn more about managing their sites. In the meantime, below are some notes I took on what we accomplished (I'm not linking to the sites because the new ones are done, and the old ones - well, they didn't like them anyway, right?)

Thanks to: SF Nonprofit Tech Center (and Heather); Michael McCarthy, John Lorance and CompuMentor, John Kenyon, David G and CivicSpace on Demand, the California Consumer Protection Foundation (who funded this); the Makeover Artists (Mark, Jason, Neil and Courtney) and the nonprofit staffers themselves - and anyone else we forgot. :-)

We now have more details about the Drupal Extreme Makeover (http://groups.drupal.org/node/1795)

We are still looking for 1-2 more Drupal consultants / "Makeover Artists". You don't have to be a "theme" whiz- we need all sorts. Healthy stipend available.
Contact Greg (consultinggoat at Sbcglobal NET) if you are interested, or for more details.

We've decided to eliminate the Friday afternoon/ evening timeslot of the weekend workshop. The current workshop details are listed below:

Drupal Extreme Makeover
Sat Nov 18th and Sun Nov 19th
- Breakfast at 9:30am, training starts promptly at 10am

At the Yearly Kos convention on June 8th the CivicSpace community will be teaching a workshop on building Drupal based netroots campaign websites. The workshop will be one full day and we will be teaching participants at every skill level. The day will culminate in a barn raising of a real world netroots campaign website thought up by the DailyKos community and built by workshop participants and facilitators.

For those of you unfamiliar with US politics the DailyKos.com community website is the highest trafficked political blog in the world. The YearlyKos convention is the first annual DailyKos community conference.