This group is a place to share ideas, organize and generally put our heads together regarding how Drupal is, and can be, used for nonprofit, charitable and social justice purposes.
Join us on the third Thursday of every month, at 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern for our group meeting by phone. View our next discussion date.
All calls are free and everyone is welcome! While "#npdrupal" refers to "nonprofit Drupal" (similar to "#nptech") our focus is broader than just nonprofit/NGO-specific uses of Drupal and encompasses all "Drupal for good" work like advocacy, community organizing, fundraising, and campaigns.
Our meetings take place at 1:00 PM US-Eastern/10:00 AM US-Pacific/19:00 CEST. (Convert to your local time zone.)
"Introduction to CiviCRM" training May 6th
Hi folks,
The first DC CiviCRM Meetup this past Wednesday had a great showing. We had over 25 people who came out to talk about the system, where it is going, and how various organizations are implementing the CRM.
We discussed the need for both training and networking sessions, and have decided to hold two Meetups each month. In two weeks, on May 6th at 6:30pm, we will hold an "Introduction to CiviCRM" session. We are still looking for a location to hold this session, so please send me any recommendations on conference rooms we can use that can seat about 30 people.
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Hi folks,
Just a quick reminder that the DC CiviCRM Meetup will hold it's first meeting this Wednesday, April 22nd from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at The Black Squirrel in Adams Morgan. We will have a Speed Show and Tell, giving each presenter 5 minutes to give a visual or spoken presentation about what they are doing with CiviCRM. This is a great opportunity to come
out and learn about the CiviCRM project, how people are using the system within their organizations, and meet other CiviCRM users and developers in the DC/VA/MD area. If you would like to present, please come prepared with a laptop.
Drupal For Good - San Francisco Bay Area @ NTC 2009
If you work with Drupal in a non-profit/social change setting, are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are planning to attend the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference this month, I'd like to invite you to the "Drupal For Good - San Francisco Bay Area" session that I'll be leading on Sunday afternoon. This should be a fun opportunity to find out what's cooking in the local non-profit Drupal scene and meet our fellow Bay Area Drupal do-gooders face-to-face. Read on for details...
Read morePenguin Day SF
Penguin Day is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009,
right before the NTC. We'd love to see you there!
Penguin Days are designed to let nonprofits and social justice activists
learn about free and open source software that can support their work
and potentially save them money, including tools for web publishing,
fundraising, blogging, and campaigning.
Full details are at www.penguinday.org. Thanks to the generosity of
Google, we're delighted to grant fee waivers to anyone who needs one!
Drupal Designers and Developers needed for THE grassroots website for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights
We are currently developing "Equality Central" with the goal of establishing a clearinghouse for all events, organizations, campaigns, resources for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) equal rights and justice movement. We have "buy-in" from major grassroots organizations in California and have built a beta website. We need Drupal developers and designers who can help develop the website. We are focusing on California, but this could become the national, grassroots hub for LGBTQ activism.
Please let me know if you are interested.
Read moreDC CiviCRM Meetup
Hi folks,
I put a feeler out on a couple of listserves earlier today about starting a DC CiviCRM user group and got a good response. I went ahead and started a Meetup and am planning the first Meetup for April 22nd at 6:30pm at the Black Squirrel in Adams Morgan.
You can sign up for the Meetup group at: http://www.meetup.com/dc-civicrm-meetup/
Read moreEvent Registration/Ticket Sales System Specifications
Discuss this wiki here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/19770Goals
Our goal is to create the best event registration system available.
- Simple for the end user to register for an event
- Simple for the admin to create an event. Use Case: The church secretary should be able to do it.
The goal of this document is to gather, organize, and clearly express the needs that churches (and others) have regarding event registration.
The User Side
Display Event Description and Details
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Drupal for NGOs - April 2009
Drupal For NGOs is a monthly series of events aimed at empowering NGOs to implement and manage their websites by knowing which modules to use and how to configure them. Each month will cover a topic in detail, showcase recent projects, and feature a Drupal question and answer session.
Which topic is covered each month will be decided by a poll, so if there's something you'd like to know more about please cast your vote or make a suggestion.
Sun Microsystems is hosting this month's Drupal For NGOs, and will also be providing presentations on Scaling And Optimising MySQL and Backing Up MySQL Data.
We will also be giving away two Drupal books that Packt Publishing have generously contributed:
Get A Ticket
The event is free, but you will need to RSVP if you would like to attend.
SalesForce Taxonomy module... thoughts? interest? contributors?
The sf_node and sf_user modules are great.
What I would like to see (and what I'm going to have to build for a few upcoming projects) is a sf_taxonomy module.
In essence, I see this as tying a SalesForce picklist value set to a Drupal vocabulary.
The biggest hurdle, imho, is that SalesForce picklists are specific to single object types, where as Drupal vocabularies are site-wide.
Given that, will this idea even float?
What are peoples' thoughts about ways to work around this particular obstacle?
What are some other obstacles?
Is anyone interested in pitching in?
Drupal @ 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference - April 26-28 in San Francisco
Here's an event in San Francisco that may be of interest to nonprofit Drupallers. There are some Drupal/CMS sessions on the agenda. I'm trying to get a "Bay Area Drupal for Good" birds-of-a-feather session included, as well - I'll keep local folks posted, if it happens. The conference is held in a different city every year, so if you're local to the Bay Area, this year is a good opportunity to go. Note that the registration fee goes up if you register after March 13.
2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference
April 26-28, 2009
San Francisco Hilton
Every movement needs a mission. Here's one! Help Drupal Help Save the World!
Can Drupal save the world? Does this Drupal movement have a mission? Is Drupal moral?
Help me answer these question. I volunteer with a small, DC-based human-rights group. They run an overtaxed Wordpress site on a an overtaxed server. They have a new, better host. But I was thinking this week would be a perfect opportunity to help a needy non-profit, move the site to drupal, and answer the above questions.
Current site: http://uscampaignforburma.org/
Are you staying in DC on Saturday? Can you lend a few hours? Here's what I think we need:
Read moreHelp the Eclipse people make an awesome EPIC Drupal site
Last updated by michelle on Wed, 2011-11-16 15:12
The Eclipse foundation is relaunching their Eclipse PlugIn Central (EPIC) plugin repository site in Drupal. Help them make it rock by analyzing their requirements document and giving them the best tips possible. A large number of Drupal developers use Eclipse as their IDE and we owe them a debt of gratitude. Help make EPIC rock!
See here:
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/
http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/epic-20/
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPICModernization
EPIC Modernization Requirements Document V 0.1
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CiviCRM & DRUPAL: eCRM, Contact and Fundraising system for DRUPAL
We are kick starting this year's DRUPAL meetup with a discussion on something that will matter the most in the coming months: Your Customers and Relationships
For DRUPAL, CiviCRM has long filled this position as one of the top performing eCRM systems.
CiviCRM has been very well integrated with DRUPAL and powers many organizations and non profits for managing their customers, contacts, events, volunteers and fund raising efforts.
Come join an engaging session with Dave Greenberg (Founder of CiviCRM) on Feb 19th at Halosys (Manhattan Conference room)
About CiviCRM
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Idealware Non-profit CMS report sponsorship and consultant listing opportunities
Hi, last year Drupal was the most popular and one of the highest rated content management systems in the Non-profit CMS report. The report last year was done by NTEN.
If you are interested in getting your business listed as a sponsor for this report by Idealware, please visit http://www.idealware.org/os_cms_report_sponsors.php.
Read moreStrange problem with Forums in a multilangual site - help please
Hello,
I’m building with Drupal 6.9 a multilingual (English, Hebrew, Arab, Greek & Turkish) site for a Middle Eastern NGO (http://b1.mideastpan.org).
Setting of a multilingual site with I18 pack was, for a non-programmer ‘Drupal newbie’, pretty straightforward. It seems that content translation and switching between interface & menu languages are working fine (Bravo).
After setting a forum, the following ‘strange’ problems appear:
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Good examples of image and image gallery integration? modules, photo sharing service apps, etc?
Hey fellow Drupal for Good members, I'm looking for advice on photo integration.
Modules we've been playing around with make it easy to create simple thumbnail galleries and display images in a lightbox when selected, but they don't facilitate captions with individual photos when they're displayed as thumbnails or in the lightbox.
Has anyone seen any good examples they can point to?
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Program on Nonprofit Blogging
I'd like let you all know about an upcoming Net Tuesday event (January 6th, at 6:30pm at Indy Hall) on Nonprofit Blogging. Go to this page for details and to RSVP.
This might be of interest for Drupal developers who build sites for nonprofits.
Thanks and hope to see you there.
(BTW -- I'm including this post in the "Drupal for Good" group too, in case those of you outside the Philly area might want to put together a similar event in your area)
Thanks and Happy New Year
Sam
Read moreDevelopers and Themers needed for No on Prop 8 Website
Hi All,
I am building a website for events and news related the protests over the passage of Prop 8 in California. I really need people to help out. Please contact me if you are interested.
Thanks,
David
noon8campaign.org
Read moreCase studies for improving the world, greater good, social goals
We've done a good job of queuing up high profile and good looking case studies lately. Now it's time to get back to those uses of Drupal that make a real difference in the world. It's what many people in the Drupal community are motivated by.
If you've got a case study about using Drupal to make a difference, l will work with you to develop it.
Thanks to Dries for the reminder.
Read more2008 Nonprofit Software Development Summit
Is Anyone in these groups attending the non-profit tech dev summit in Oakland(California) next month? <a href="http://www.aspirationtech.org/>Aspiration Tech is hosting it and the site is running Drupal. There seems to be some Drupal presence in the sessions too, but just wanted to get a better feel in the groups as too the extent of the Drupal presence and any other thoughts on it.
cheers
tim
