pegtv

Much like living organisms are classified into groups (say, spiders) where many individual species (say, daddy long legs, black widow, tarantula) exist, we still have some distinguishing characteristics (eight legs, no wings) which separate it from other similar living organisms (say, bees).

I'd like to hear about what you would define as the distinguishing characteristics of a community media organization.

I recently gave a talk at a conference for folks in community cable access television about migrating their sites to content managements systems. I put lots of emphasis on Drupal. It was terrific to demo Burlington Vermont's new Drupal site (www.cctv.org) and Denver's, too (http://www.denveropenmedia.org/).
Here are the notes
http://medfield.tv/acmne_cms

I got some feedback that I thought I would share as a way to keep the KDI/pegspace beach ball up in the air.

http://www.archive.org/details/PEGspace_BoF_Drupalcon2008
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This is the breakout discussion held during the Drupalcon 2008 Boston conference on March 5, 2008. This discussion tracks the progress of a number of concurrent Drupal development projects focusing on enabling PEG (public, educational and government) Access centers to utilize Drupal for their organization.

The video was not so good, so we just have the audio. Below are some notes from the conversation. Hopefully, this provides some context, history and direction for those in the Access community who are wondering what Drupal is, why it is something they should care about and also for those in the Drupal community who would like to know about a very exciting project. Please add, clarify or correct.