Transition Towns

I think it's time for a summary of Transitiony Drupal initiatives.[Cross posted to Transition Drupal group]
Forgive me some of what I say will not be accurate, but my attempt here is to give a big picture.

First of all the 'official' initiative made some progress this weekend in separating 2 use-cases1) The transition groups themselves2) The local communities in which transition groups operate

I'm part of the IT Team of GEN (Global Ecovillage Network) and actually working on a Drupal platform which will be used by CASA (American Councel of Sustainable Settlements) and RIE (Iberian Network of Ecovillages). In the future more affiliated networks might join and thematic sites about related subjects (permaculture, green building, etc.) might get integrated.

Hello everybody.

This is in some way call to arms! ;)

I would like to suggest CSA, Transition towns and other real-world communities and individuals to join forces and resources and help Acquia to build one community Drupal distribution to rule them all. :)

Hi, My name is Jack Spivak. In Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Please check out this full featured and, so far, "unadvertised" drupal communities installation/platform, GrassrootsPower!!

Just got excited to see that Transition is thinking about drupal!

I'm joining your conversation for whatever I can offer/provide. Been working about 3 years already to put a robust Drupal offering together for groups/communities interested in doing productive work together. It is based on a social network backbone but has a purpose and interface with a decided workgroup flavor. It is specifically targeted at social, economic and environmental justice movements and includes some very novel concepts around automatic information sharing based on principles of knowledge ecosystems and communities of practice.

There is a clear, clear need for a certain kind of community web application, but so far, it hasn't been well articulated. Because the communities that need it aren't investing in web technologies, for various reason, the commercial sphere isn't addressing this need at all.

The needs this group is trying to address are in no way specific to transition towns.

Hi all,

we've just completed a survey of the Transition Network site (http:/www.transitionnetwork.org) which I thought you might be interested in:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ed-mitchell/2011-03/web-project-s...

Now that D7 has been released, we have to make some fundamental project decisions.

1. Our own code base or wait for Drupal Commons to port to D7.
2. Which contributed modules to support?
3. Which unique modules to design and build?
4. How does the project get supported? (More below.)
5. How do we handle themes? Harvard's system in Open Scholar is elegant.

6. How do we upgrade installations? Features or the new kid on the block, Site Update?

7. Our own code base or Drupal Commons?

Benefits of Drupal Commons

Hi,

I maintain the TUS website and wanted to get some thoughts from this group. When you type something like 'transition movement' into a search engine you will see an ad for xanax under the link to our website. Here is my path to resolve and was hoping to get your feedback ...

1) Search all core files for embedded text and delete (in process)
2) If this does not work then restore from backup (database and files)

3) Do an upgrade of core and all modules
4) Request Google to rescan our site

Has this kind of thing happened to any one on this list before?

I'm putting the finishing touches on a website (ttnorthbay.org) for our local initiative in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. If I had known this project was under way I would have done it in Drupal instead of Joomla but there is always version 2.

I think it's pretty much a standard site with discussion forums, a newsletter, newsfeeds, etc. About the only thing unique is that we've set up an amazon.ca affiliate bookstore to help fund webhosting, etc.