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.)
Is GFDL Compatible with GPL?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License says that GFDL is the counterpart for documentation to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl, so I'm wondering if they are compatible, and if documentation published under GFDL may be packaged with modules in the Drupal.org repository?
Thanks,
Aaron Winborn
http://aaronwinborn.com/
UNICEF-OLPC Story Jam New York
I know that this event coincides with the NYC DrupalCamp, but if any of you are interested in helping One Laptop Per Child and UNICEF bring affordable and open-source technologies to the developing world, we could really use your help. If you decide to join, please indicate that you'd like to be part of "Team Drupal" on the registration page. If you have any questions please contact me using my contact page, or shoot me an e-mail.
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blockquote>UNICEF, the world's leading children's organization will be holding an open Storytelling Jam and Hackathon from Friday March 28 through Sunday March 30. The three-day event will be hosted at UNICEF's headquarters in Manhattan, NY.
The focus of this event is to build and implement free and open-source tools for collecting stories, as well as gathering and spreading the stories themselves. Work will be done on a variety of platforms, from mobile phones to the One Laptop per Child's XO machine.
UNICEF is inviting software and hardware experts of all types to create tools that enable young people to capture and share their stories on various hardware devices including the XO. UNICEF's Youth Section has been actively involved in developing various projects in this area, including a radio station on a USB stick, software to allow people to access web pages through SMS / Text messages, and ways to capture the voices of young people through their mobile phones. Developers will be working in groups to either extend existing programs or create new ones. Check the projects page to see a list of proposed projects or propose one of your own. In addition to a viewing for the attendees on Sunday the 30th, Monday the 31st will feature a public viewing at UNICEF HQ where work from the weekend will be displayed and visitors will be able to record their stories.
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eDemocracyCamp - this weekend!
I know this is ultra last-minute, and most people are heading out of town towards Boston. But an old friend in the nonprofit / ngo techie world wanted me to get the word out to Drupal folks in the DC area who will be around this weekend:
eDemocracyCamp!
"The place for innovators, optimists, and engaged citizens. March 2, 2008 in Washington, DC
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US patent reform and open source: Who is the best candidate for the OS community?
My friend whurley has launched an online poll to bring open source to the attention of politicians -- specifically, the presidential candidates. He, like many of us, is troubled by the recent calls for patent reform put forth by larger companies that may wind up blocking innovation and threatening open source-oriented companies and contractors.
You can view the poll here and vote for which candidate you believe is best for the open source community. (Don't worry: "None of them" is an option!)
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No Follow Hurting Drupal?
I found this coming in from Drupal planet http://www.tech-wanderings.com/drupal-nofollowed-too-pervasive.
Greg Holsclaw talks about how nofollow attributes could be hurting Drupal (rel=nofollow being a well intentioned way of deterring spam. Something that has managed to keep the ratio of spam to real content on the web down to a respectable 10:1 :P) Basically, he points out that most internal links on drupal.org get the nofollow attribute attached to them.
Greg makes a number of good points, but I think the two most important are:
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CiviCRM meetup in New York City ...
Kurund and Lobo will be in New York City on Dec 19th / 20th. They have a potential space near Union Square for Dec 19th that we could use if we get enough folks interested. They will tailor the session based on the needs of the folks who sign up :)
If you are interested please send Lobo an email (lobo at yahoo dot com) along with ideas on what you'd like the session to be about. They'd love to get some user feedback, comments and critique of CiviCRM. They'll spend some time explaining a few things coming in CiviCRM v2.0
Read moreCiviCRM meetup in New York City ...
Kurund and Lobo will be in New York City on Dec 19th / 20th. They have a potential space near Union Square for Dec 19th that we could use if we get enough folks interested. They will tailor the session based on the needs of the folks who sign up :)
If you are interested please send Lobo an email (lobo at yahoo dot com) along with ideas on what you'd like the session to be about. They'd love to get some user feedback, comments and critique of CiviCRM. They'll spend some time explaining a few things coming in CiviCRM v2.0
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Install profiles for NGOs / charities
It has been mentioned in a previous thread that we could use this group (Drupal for Good) to create an install profile specific for NGOs and Charities.
I am willing to volunteer to contribute code to this project. However, it is unclear what is required. This topic is to discuss what features, modules, etc. would be specifically required by an average charity or non-profit organisation.
I think there is a beginning of an install profile for churches, but again, what does a church web site need that all churches web site would need?
Read moreFix Drupal 6 for translations
Last updated by gábor hojtsy on Fri, 2007-10-19 12:11
Update: new errors uncovered.
When running the pot file extractor, we get the following messages. They generally mean that the parser could not extract the string for the t() function because it was stored in a variable or constructed dynamically in any other way. For some strings, this is not a problem, because we have taken care of them (like date/time strings), but others won't be translateable if we don't fix them. We have to review each message and decide if there is a way the actual string lands in the translation template files, otherwise it's a bug.
DoubleBlackDesign.com
Distributing Product Design and Engineering Knowledge Across the Net SM
DoubleBlackDesign.com was started on August 31, 2007 with a single goal in mind. This goal is to spread the product design and engineering best practices that can typically only be acquired through long-term experience to all aspiring product designers and engineers throughout the world.
Read moreUniversity of Michigan needs Drupal/CSS guru
Applications Programmer Associate
The Department of Family Medicine is seeking an experienced individual to work in a progressive healthcare information technology environment to provide application programming development support for various physical activity internet applications. This person will work under the direct supervision of a senior programmer to modify applications programs from detailed specifications, and will code, test, debug, document, support and maintain those programs. This person will also create reports and run queries.
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i'd like to profile drupal users in turkey
hi turkey!
i'm traveling the world for seven months profiling free culture, open source software, activists, couchsurfers and bloggers. on 1 aug, i will arrive in istanbul and am looking for people and organizations to profile, places to visit and people to visit and chat.
as of now, you can see the 10 episodes i've shot, edited and produced at < http://luckofseven.com >...
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As Drupal and Drupal Shops Grow, Are NPOs Benefiting?
I am posting to ask two questions regarding nonprofits, consultants and Drupal
shops, and the general direction Drupal is headed. In short, I'd like to
hear your thoughts on whether Drupal is heading in a direction that benefits
nonprofits or leaves many behind. I feel that I need a disclaimer: I'm asking
these questions because I don't know the answer and think some of you will have
great feedback that helps answer the questions, and more importantly improve
Drupal and its community.
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Is Drupal development getting too expensive, and as a result, pricing many
smaller (Drupal entry level) NPOs out? -
Is the professionalization of Drupal -- more modules and themes being
developed by Drupal shops for paid jobs -- causing more modules, themes and
improvements to get back to the community and Drupal.org? Or, are more
and more improvements becoming for clients only?
Any plans for a Drupal presence at the US Social Forum in Atlanta June 27 - July 1?
US Social Forum looking for Drupalists
Hi NYC and area Drupal folks,
The US Social Forum will be taking place June 27 - July 1 - it's a nation-wide gathering of progressives for 3 days in Atlanta Georgia. Probably no surprise to all of you: the technology is driven by Drupal (http://www.ussf2007.org).
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Announcing CiviCluster and CiviConference
I've created initial snapshots for CiviCluster and CiviConference for
users of Drupal 5. It may take up to 24 hours for them to appear in the
Drupal.org release system, but they are already in the DRUPAL-5 CVS branch.
CiviCluster will rapidly identify duplicate contacts and walk users
though merging them. CiviCluster supports CiviCRM 1.6 and 1.7 (except
for CiviEvent). CiviCluster will be updated shortly to support CiviEvent
schema changes.
http://drupal.org/project/civicluster
CiviConference allows online conference management and ticket sales by
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United Nations MC seeking Drupal Web Intern
The United Nations Millennium Campaign is seeking an intern to assist with the Campaign's new Drupal-based website (in development). The Campaign supports national efforts around the world to hold governments accountable to their promises to achieve the 8 Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The MDGs are 8 targets agreed to by every member state to end extreme poverty b
Read moreCreative Commons party (RSVP required)
The members of Four Kitchen Studios will be attending the Creative Commons party tonight to celebrate the CC-licensed (and very Drupalish) That Other Paper.
To attend:
1. Get a subscription to GOOD Magazine. 100% of the money goes to support Creative Commons, and you get a cool magazine, too.
2. RSVP with your name.
Drinks are free.
Read moreTrellon is Hiring Drupal Gunslingers
Have a strong desire to help great progressive organizations make the world a better place? Looking to work with a fantastic team of Drupal developers and build out some really cutting edge sites? Can you write code better than a thousand monkeys with a million years on their hands?
Trellon is a development shop based in Washington, DC and we are looking for a few good programmers to work with our talented team of Drupal developers on some big projects. We’re offering a 1 – 2 month contract to build out a couple of client sites.
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Advomatic is hiring!
Us: A decent sized Drupal development firm, working with some of the biggest sites in the Drupal Community
You: A talented individual with php skills, MySQL skills, CSS skills, Drupal skills, sword fighting skills, etc, etc.
The offer: A short term 1 month contract working on a client site, leading to full time employment in March if you know your stuff.
If you like us and we like you, the possibility to join the company on a long term basis, or if you don't want that, a sweet 1 month gig.
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