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.)
Request for Assistance: Drupal Set-Up for Two Non-Profits
I am totally new to Drupal and unsure how to set Drupal up in a way that makes sense for multiple non-profit orgs helping the poor and marginalized here in Columbia, Mo. I would like to connect with someone who can help me build up a stable Web presence such that multiple people can contribute to a site but it retains its "non-Drupal appearance" (at least to some degree) and allows for a singular editorial voice.
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UN Volunteers need Drupal
UN Volunteers programme enables 'online volunteering', a form of volunteering done through the internet. Among the many tasks available, you can find those related to website development. If you want to do some Drupal volunteering, you might want to check out the available offers.
More details can be found here: http://www.unv.org
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Nonprofit Drupalers signup sheet from Drupalcons DC and SF
Posting this here as I'm not sure what else to do with it:
At the Drupalcons in San Francisco (2010) and DC (2009) folks got together for Drupal for Good-type BoFs. In DC I think that Ivan (rootwork) and I created a Google Doc and collected folks' info, saying we'd do SOMETHING with it. The something that we did was bring it to Drupalcon SF, where more folks signed up. I don't think we ever came up with a clear plan of what to do with this, but I've got a doc of 50 names, email addresses, URLs, and D.o & Twitter handles.
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Report on Content Management Systems Powering Foundation Websites
Hello all,
I wanted to share an interesting result of some research we just completed on how Foundations are (or are not) using Open Source CMSs, like Drupal to power their own websites. This really was a tangent of another report we're working on but we found it interesting enough to share on our blog.
Our curiosity lead us to look at the top 885 Foundations with websites (based on endowment size), and we used a browser plug-in to determine how the sites were built. We were able to clearly identify the technology powering 478 of the 885 Foundation websites (54%).
Read moreSan Francisco CiviCRM Meetup - Dec 8th 2010
Come meet others from the Bay Area who are interested in, using or developing for CiviCRM. Carl Tashian from the Participatory Politics Foundation will share their experiences implementing and using CiviCRM. We'll also preview the new features in CiviCRM 3.3, and save time for an open question and answer session. Meetup Agenda:
- Meet and Greet (5:30 - 6:00pm)
- Preview of new features in 3.3
- Case study - Participatory Politics Foundation
- Q & A
Registration here: http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=100
Location:
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery
Slogan for Drupal Guilds?
I was thinking "Magister Declinatio" -- Master the Drop. Any other ideas?
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Non-profit Site developed for FREE
We have just donated 50 hour of FREE drupal development time to develop http://talabarowari.co.in a Hindu community web site as part of our yearly promise of 100 hour of FREE drupal development time to non-profit org.
We have used the following modules to develop the site.
- Context,
- Ctools
- CCK
- Views
- Features
- Exportables
- Lightbox2
- path-auto
We have created on drush-make file to create a distro and one install profile to installation.
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Power to Communicate for Everyone: Drupal at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston
A proposal for powerful communication with equal access – please vote (requires fairly safe and painless registration).
See a collection of many Drupal-related presentations at the National Conference for Media Reform, which is coming to Boston April 8-10, 2011!
Read moreWireframe of Front Page of Drupal Guilds (Authenticated)
Bylaws of the Open Drupal Guilds (version 0.9)
Bylaws (version 0.9)
- Definitions
- Open Guilds
- Open Guilds refers to the organization these Bylaws apply to. Its website is at http://openguilds.org/.
- Drupal Guilds
- Drupal Guilds refers to a subset of the Open Guilds, and is fully subject to the rules laid out in these Bylaws. Its website is at http://drupalguilds.org/.
- Individual
- An Individual must be a human being. Corporations, Organizations, or any other collection of individuals may not be considered to be an individual for purposes of these Bylaws.
- Purpose of the Open Guilds
Open Guilds acts as an organization for the training, certification and professionalism of practitioners of various Open Source crafts. The website at http://openguilds.org/ serves to facilitate the purposes of the organization.
Transcript of the Drupal Guilds Presentation
Here is an idealized transcript of the recent Drupal Dojo session I did regarding the proposed Drupal Guilds, which you can watch here if you didn't catch it earlier:
Also, here are the slides I used during the presentation, which the headers generally refer to, if you want to follow along the text:
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dgdc84wd_79g4wmzcf9
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Open university system
Hello friends!
I hear at the acquia webinar that OpenScholar planing to integrate some university functional.
I discussed few projects for universities and large medical centers and I think that such sites need microsites with own spaces and features for faculties or departments.
I decided to built this system. I think this system could be very expected, because it meets requirments of large communities. Imagine community of some association with main site and many microsites of organizations who make this community.
Openlayers + Rules. Anyone done it? Any guidelines?
New to Openlayers, OL Proximity, and Rules. They all seem to be working.
Would like to notify users when nodes are published / updated based on geographic proximity, i.e. node is published with a location within 50 miles of a user. It is for a missing pet web site.
Anyone with experience integrating the two? Am going to try to figure out today. Thanks.
Read moreMissing Pet Web Site - proximity browsing
I have developed a missing pet web site and want to add a proximity feature, in Views I am guessing.
Each node represents a pet, with users searching by geography to locate reported pets.
I have tried the Location module, ~ 30 hours, can not get proximity to work, may be zip code database issue, no firm idea.
Openlayer - can not find a tutorial but I think it can do this without a zipcode database which would be ideal, am going to keep trying with this for now
Geo - have heard it can do this, no idea how, got an install error.
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Notes from Drupal for NGOs/non-profits meetup at DrupalCon Copenhagen
We had a semi-formal meetup or Birds of a Feather (BOF) gathering at DrupalCon Copenhagen. The idea was for it to be a bit like our experience of the Drupal for NGOs group in the UK.
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I would like to start a online support group for people with cancer as I am a network admin my drupal skills are somewhat weak. I need someone who can give me a hand as needed. any help would be great! please contact me at ramseybr at gmail dot com if you can help a brother out.
Read moreDrupal Guilds & Open Guilds
FYI, I've just submitted a group for Drupal Guilds & Open Guilds, which is a concept that I've been brewing for about a year now (based on discussions and other ideas that have taken a decade or more to gel). I've finally begun writing down some of my ideas for this this summer, and have decided it's time to open the concept for further discussion and debate. Without further ado, here is the elevator pitch for this grassroots organization:
Read moreDrupal Updates from OSI Days 2010 - Open Source Conference, Chennai - September 19-21, 2010
Conference Details - http://osidays.com
Drupal Sessions with Overview and details: http://osidays.com/tracks/60
Conference Registration - http://osidays.com/register-now
Shortlisted Sessions:
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CiviCRM User and Administrator Training in Los Angeles - August 17th 2010
A comprehensive one day hands on training course covering the configuration, administration, and every-day use of CiviCRM. This event is aimed at administrators and technical users at organisations that are either using CiviCRM, or interested in evaluating it. It is also useful for staff at organisations that develop or implement CiviCRM who need a complete understanding of "out of the box" features and configuration options.
Agenda
We try to be flexible with the agenda to meet participant requirements and expectations, and the final agenda may change. Topics will include:
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Lots of stuff happening this summer with the Drupal Open Garden Project
There is a ton of stuff going on with the Drupal Open Garden Project this summer.
We are just getting underway & we are now known as a 'Summer Learning Collaborative.'
Classes
We have some basic open source development skills-building classes underway (command line, git, php, drush and maybe IRC & 'theme crew')
Projects
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