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.)
Looking to meet other green, sustainable, eco-friendly type developers
I am looking to establish relationships with other Drupal developers and themers who are interested in eco-friendly, green, progressive, sustainable, or social justice projects.
Who's with me?
Through my company http://www.10kwebdesign.com we do a lot of work with green businesses, membership groups, and multicultural women entrepreneurs, and I'd like to collaborate and grow with other people who are committed to working in this sphere.
My sense is that there is a very deep need for good developers to offer their skills and talents to the green and clean economy.
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Drupal6x: Problem while create form using Form API
Hi all,
I'm having this problem, and want everyone can help for me, the problem following:
I created form using Form API, and i want while calling form then assign value to text filed(because value of text file always change).
Thank all!
A theme for TEDx events based on Acquia Marina
Hi, I just launched a new theme for TEDx events based on Acquia Marina at http://www.drupal.org/project/tedx
I had initially created it as a sub-theme but to make it easier for others to use it, I released it as an independent theme.
A detailed step-by-step list of changes I did to Acquia_Marina to turn it into TEDx theme is available at:
http://www.socinfo.com/tedx/theme/creation
This list shows how easy it is to customize Acquia_Marina, incresing our apreciation and admiration for such a wonderful theme.
More info on the theme at http://www.socinfo.com/tedx/theme
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Barnraising Best Practices?!
I'm organizing a "barnraising" for a Nashville non-profit in July and I'm soliciting best practices and experience from anyone who's participated in or helped organize a 24 or 48 hour sprint to build a website with a group of volunteers? I've found two Drupalcamps where this happened, so far. Anyone else?
DrupalCamp Paris:
http://civicactions.com/blog/drupaln039go_drupalcamp_paris_a_community_b...
DrupalCamp Florida's case study:
http://drupal.org/node/755498
Voip Drupal meetup at Drupal Con SF 2010
Hello everyone,
We're organizing a Voip Drupal birds-of-a-feather session at Drupal Con SF 2010.
WHEN: April 20th, 2:45-3:45pm PST
WHAT: As part of this meetup, we would like to:
- Get to know people who are interested in enriching Drupal sites with Voip features (voicemail, audio blogging, etc.) and in making web services available via regular touchtone phones;
- Introduce the motivation, architecture and current implementation of the Voip Drupal platform;
- Brainstorm about potential applications and next steps of the project
New IRC channel for Drupallers working with NGO's and nonprofits: #drupal-ngo
Last week, DavidWhite & I created the #drupal-ngo IRC channel on freenode for broad-based discussion of how people can and are using Drupal to support the work of nonprofits and NGO's. The channel has not had much activity yet, other than from the two of us, benjamin-agaric, and bangpound, but it has been approved by chx as of last night, and Morbus Iff has added Druplicon to it.
I am writing this post to extend the invitation to any who are using Drupal for good to join us in the channel sometime. I hope that it can be another place where we can pool our skills and plans.
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Event Agenda of Silicon Valley Drupal User Group, March 24th
we all look forward to this event which covers 3 very interesting presentations. Many thanks in advance to Kieran, Pat and Avi for stepping up for sharing knowledge.
Agenda of the event:
Presentation A (5.30 PM to 6.00 PM):
Demo of www.examiner.com, recent successful migration to Drupal 7.This site is ranked 185th in USA.
Presentation by Kieran Lal (Product Manager in www.Acquia.com and an evangelist of Drupal).
Presentation B (6.10 PM to 6.30 PM):
Product presentation of an iphone app using Drupal Restful API`s and communication protocols.
Canvassing and Get Out The Vote (GOTV) features in CiviCRM
Political groups and campaigns have been some of the earliest users of CiviCRM (http://civicrm.org/). We've had quite a few political parties using CiviCRM: Green Party of New Zealand, Green Party of Canada, Oregon State Democrats, Vermont Progressive Party and even the Pirate Party of Germany! One of the features missing from CiviCRM has been Canvassing, GOTV, PhoneList and WalkList functionality. This has been long requested and there have been various specifications on the CiviCRM wiki (http://docs.civicrm.org/) for this.
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Beginner Developer Class: "Hot & Dirty Drupal Developer Summer Garden Project" - Application Deadline
This summer, I am offering/organizing a hands-on open source developer class, for beginning developers.
Seeking
* student participants
* mentors
* additional project coordinators in other cities, if there is interest
Students
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Meetup Agenda:
- Meet and Greet (5:30 - 6:00pm)
- CiviEvent Tutorial OR Case Study (TBD)
- CiviSchool Module Presentation and Direction
- Hands-on Training Exercises and Breakout groups (by skill level and interest area)
Location:
Wikimedia Offices
149 New Montgomery
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States
Register here: http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=47
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Earth Hour Module
I was talking to Gregory Heller about the latest Earth Hour module we've released and he suggested posting it here in this group. Totally happy he did as I'd overlooked it.
So this is a little module which I cloned last year from a WordPress plugin that raises awareness about Earth Hour and then disables your site for an hour in solidarity. It's a simple little symbolic measure that webmasters can do to show support for the Earth Hour initiative.
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Which Freelancing Site do you prefer to look for projects ?
Which Freelancing Site do you prefer ?
Voip Drupal meetup at the MIT Media Lab
Please join us for the first Voip Drupal meetup of 2010!
We are building a highly innovative framework to integrate Drupal sites with regular, touchtone phones.
Among other things, our system will enable Drupal users to:
* Send and receive audio messages
* Create voicemail groups
* Record public and private audio announcements
* Create audio events to be added to a shared calendar
* Organize phone-based polls
* And much more!
If you are interested, come to our meetings:
WHAT: Voip Drupal weekly meetup
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Transmission Drupal Distribution proposal to Knight News Challenge
Hi all, the Transmission network (http://transmission.cc) has just completed a full proposal to the Knight News Challenge, for a video-focused 'Transmission Drupal Distribution': http://tinyurl.com/txknightdrupal. If we get the $, we will do an open consultation process with Transmission network partners and the Drupal community to determine the modules we will fund development of. Please check out the proposal, rate it up, and if you think you would use this distribution, leave a comment to let Knight know it would be useful! Thanks.
Read moreDrupal sites raising funds/providing resources for Haiti earthquake victims
Drupal is being used by many organizations who are helping to provide resources or raise money for victims of the Earthquake in Haiti. Update this wiki page with more organization that are using Drupal to help the Haiti earthquake victims.
Interaction - http://www.interaction.org - this site features crisis response listings for 150 non-profit organizations.
Action Against Hunger - http://www.actionagainsthunger.org
Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development - http://www.acted.org/en
Architecture for Humanity - http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/
Design4Drupal at Stanford on Jan 23-24, 2010
Registration is now open for: http://stanford.design4drupal.org/
Design4Drupal Camp Stanford
The Design4Drupal camp pioneers thought there was a need to bring designers, developers, and front-end Drupalists together to discuss the theming and design layer in Drupal, from that Drupal Design Camp Boston was born in June of 2009. Design4Drupal Camp Stanford continues this initiative.
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Simple webmaster / mentor volunteer needed for international theatre group
Hi -
I did some work a while ago for Theatre Without Borders, a group of associated theatre artists promoting theatre and peace around the world.
The site I set up is very simple, Drupal 5 with no customisation (maybe some CSS hacks, but that's it).
Despite the accessibility of the site, the members of the group still have challenges understanding how to use it, and so requests will come through to change a block or a menu (maybe sometimes change a View...)
Read moreVozMob 0.2
Hi all,
We recently completed several new features over at VozMob (http://vozmob.net). VozMob stands for mobile voices / voces moviles, it's mobile blogging that lets users post text, photo, video, and audio via sms, mms, and phone calls (no data plan or app download needed). You can find our full release 0.2 on github: http://code.vozmob.net.
New features that are tested and now live:
Read moreNonprofits, Websites and Drupal
Are you a non-profit looking for an affordable way of re-doing your website? Want to talk to other non-profits and developers for free about your concerns and ideas?
Are you a drupal user already, looking to share ideas?
Are you a developer, eager to help? Looking for business?
Join us for this special get together of non-profits, socially minded folk, web designers, Drupal users, and other geeky folks to celebrate the start of a new year with brainstorming and networking about how we can do more with the internet.
Techliminal
268 - 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
