Transition Towns
Transition Towns (http://www.transitionnetwork.org, http://www.transitionus.org, http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz, etc.) is one of the fastest growing social movements in the world today. It's a bottom up movement made up of initiatives around the world collaborating locally and widely on community based answers to peak oil and climate change around the world, supported by Transition Network and affiliated organisations.
Drupal at the centre of a lot of the web developments. This group exists to bring together Drupal builders, site admins and developers with an interest in Transition, for knowledge sharing, and joint development activities.
transitiondrupal.org current status?
Hi all,
Really interested in this project, but there seems to be little activity on it recently. What are its current movements? I would be very interested in working on this project, especially in Drupal 7, which by looking at the design spec, should be more than possible with today's state of modules. I'm happy & able to do the backend monkey work & less comfortable with the theming.
Newbie here. With a major offering.
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.
Transition Edinburgh South uses Drupal 7
Hello everybody. I'm Sarah and part of Transition Edinburgh South.
For those interested, http://www.transitionedinburghsouth.org.uk uses Drupal 7.
I wrote most of the copy for it, and was on the team that developed the website. The project was interesting because it consisted entirely of people from the community.
We also used Open Atrium to coordinate the efforts. You can see me blogging about Open Atrium vs Face book
Drupal for resilient communities
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.
Transition Asheville uses Drupal Commons 6.x-1.5
If anyone is interested in discussing let me know: http://transitionasheville.org
Ty Hallock, thallock@topfloorstudio.com
Transition Network website survey results
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...
VoIP Drupal
Saw this announcement go out, seemed worth being aware of:
Hello all,
It is with great pleasure that I would like to announce the first release of the VoIP Drupal platform (http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal)!
VoIP Drupal is an innovative framework that brings the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal sites.
VoIP Drupal can be used to build hybrid applications combining regular touchtone phones, web, SMS, Twitter, IM and other communication tools in a variety of ways, including:
- Voice- and SMS-based Go Out to Vote campaigns
It's time!
Now that D7 has been released, we have to make some fundamental project decisions.
- Our own code base or wait for Drupal Commons to port to D7.
- Which contributed modules to support?
- Which unique modules to design and build?
- How does the project get supported? (More below.)
- How do we handle themes? Harvard's system in Open Scholar is elegant.
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How do we upgrade installations? Features or the new kid on the block, Site Update?
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Our own code base or Drupal Commons?
Benefits of Drupal Commons
Happy New Year!
Just checking in with you guys to see where things are at. Is this still the main forum for communication on the TD project?
I've just signed up an account at transitiondrupal.org which seems to let me comment there. There's also been a lot of updates over there recently. But no names yet in the 'who' column on the features list - is the main issue waiting for all the modules to update ready for Drupal 7?
I'm new to team projects - I assume if I sign up for the Git code repository it will all become clear and I can start getting my hands dirty?
Transition US website -- google search results displaying spam
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?
Greetings from Ireland
I realise I have never formally introduced myself and yet joined this group about six months ago. Great work you are doing here and having TransitioDrupal.org linked is fantastic. At my first drupal camp in Ireland, I was struck with the similarity in the folk, sharing a real sense of community.
I co-moderate a 600 member strong ning site which we want to migrate to a drupal site, its our all island network site for Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland http://transitiontownsireland.ning.com/.
Hello from Transition Town North Bay
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.
Just introducing myself
Hi there all. Just to say hi and ask if there is anything I can help out with. I have been looking into the whole transition towns thing for a while now but as there is no group local to me.
I have some php skills but not with Drupal. I mainly do front end type coding (html, css and javascript) and information architecture / user experience work. If there is anything I can get involved in I am more than willing to help out.
Rob C
Mapping resources
There has previously been mentioned the idea of mapping local resources. Andre suggested contacting GreenMap.org to see if their data and/or icons could be used, which is a great idea. So do we think there is a need for a module that supports recording resources?
One local resource is fruit trees. This raises a question of generic v specific information about resources. I've thought a bit about fruit tree mapping and there could be a number of specific fields for those content types. For context I've listed some initial requirements here (http://www.transitiondrupal.org/node/16).
transitiondrupal.org website
Wanted to start a general thread about the website. I've done a few small changes to give just a little bit more structure, but not added a lot of content yet.
Is it possible we could add WYSIWYG editing, or at least a wiki-like markup for editing content? Its not ideal having to edit HTML. I could have a go at this if the D7 module upload stuff works well, but just checking first...
Any thoughts on further improvements to the site structure welcome. For requirements we can keep editing the book. I added a Vision and Developers pages and will try to flesh out content more.
Hello from Scotland
Just wanted to say hi, I am a drupal too and happy to help out if I can.
It would be good to get up to speed with what's planned here as local groups in Scotland have been asking us for microsites too and we don't want to go ahead and duplicate what you guys are doing.
What stage is this project at just now?
I am not much of a coder but been using Drupal for a while now so might be able to help with some stuff.
Vision document
Hi,
When talking to people about this project there is a need for a short document that could outline the vision and key goals of what we are aiming for. What does anyone else think about that? It could go as content on transitiondrupal.org but a PDF could be good too.
If its felt this would make sense I could have a stab at writing a OpenOffice doc (which can save as PDF).
paul
TransitionDrupal.org License has been granted
Hi, everyone. Great news: we've qualified for a perpetual, worldwide license at no cost to use the Drupal trademark in our name.
Thus, we are authorized to use both "Transition Drupal" and "TransitionDrupal.org."
The conditions of the license are:
I object Transitions Towns change for oil, it must be change for real democracy and real free media
To me it's some high society invention that has been planned for many years; the transition from petrol to other resources. A few decades ago they destroyed individuals and companies that tried something like this and bought their patents and put it in a safe. Maybe this was going on for over 100 years, as some think about the 'free energy' inventions of Tesla. But after their destruction, their investments have shifted in that 'green' energy.
theCOREconference
Looks like a very interesting conference on tools for communities and so on:
