List of Drupal websites working for Good (introduce yourself and your site).

Posted by augustin on August 6, 2006 at 5:09am

Hello,

First of all, many thanks to Jason for creating this group.

There are many definitions of what is "Good", and I won't attempt to give one: we all have our own understanding of what needs to be done to create a better tomorrow.

To get the Drupal for Good group started, it would be a good idea to list the variety of Drupal sites working for Good.

Also, new people joining the group can use this thread to introduce themselves and their site for Good.

I'll start with two Drupal sites who are not registered charities, but whose purpose is definitely to create a better tomorrow for ourselves and our world.

www.reuniting.info: Healing with Sexual Relationships

This website highlights the intriguing parallels between (1) modern neuroscience discoveries lovemaking and (2) sacred sexuality traditions that emphasize the importance of using sex to achieve inner balance. Every major religion and many other traditions, both secular and spiritual, as well as scientific research, contain clues about the wisdom of learning to manage sex carefully to achieve greater wellbeing, relationship harmony and even heightened spiritual awareness.

www.wechange.org: changing the world and ourselves

There is one thing that is certain in this world: our society needs to change.

www.wechange.org is about promoting and enabling this change, one human being at a time: changing ourselves and changing the way we relate to the world for our own benefit and for the benefit of the whole humanity.

Individually, there is a lot that we can do. Together, we can achieve much more.

So, please, go ahead and introduce your site in this thread. We can discuss in other threads how websites working in similar areas can cooperate for better result.

Personally, I am very interested in cooperation among like minded web sites, so I am looking forward to discussing this topic in other threads with the creators and owners of the sites listed below.

Blessings to all!

Comments

I agree with Augustin,

Posted by US421 on August 8, 2006 at 2:44am

There are limitless ways to do good. I am most familiar with food/agriculture on the local level, and many of my sites reflect that.

http://wataugacountyfarmersmarket.org/ extends the local farmers' market and is a big help in not only promotion and awareness, but also in finding farmers and getting them involved. It is by far my most successful website.

http://leolastreetgarden.org/ is a newer site. It started as a base of operations during the planning stage of the community garden, and is now not only seeking a facelift but also some photos and testimonials detailing the coolness of a community garden.

http://brwia.org/ is intended to support the work of a group of women farmers and their work toward educating and promoting women farmers.

I have more, and also plans for sites to connect individual farmers to their customer, among other things.

It would be wonderful to interact on a more global scale, but the focus here is to get local people eating locally. I may have found my niche.

postcarbon.org and relocalize.net

Posted by mackh on September 11, 2006 at 6:40pm

Hi Everyone

I just spotted this group, and and glad to be here.

I am the technology manager for a non-profit called the Post Carbon Institute. The mission of Post Carbon Institute is to explore in theory and practice what cultures, civilisation, governance & economies might look like without the use of (non-renewable) hydrocarbons as energy and chemical feedstocks.

We use drupal for all our sites, run Organic Groups for our relocalization network site and are constantly building more services into our sites. The major challenge we are dealing with this week, is getting og2list working right, so that each group we create in our sites can have a listserv.

Check out our sites

http://www.postcarbon.org - the main site
http://www.relocalize.net - groups relocalizing their economies
http://www.energyfarms.net - decentralized urban agriculture and power production

We will also be converting our mail media site http://www.globalpublicmedia.com to drupal in the coming month.

If there are any drupal developers in this group looking for work, drop me a line, I need some help with these projects going forward.
Open source software for a better future, lets work together...

Queensland Shelter

Posted by tregeagle on June 26, 2007 at 5:24am

Hi,

I am relatively new to Drupal and after many years of writing my own shonky Content Management System(s) have switched my clients over to Drupal. Now life is much easier and yet harder! I used to know exactly how my code worked but now I am digging into the Drupal code to see what is under the bonnet.
It's great to share the load with the community, looking forward to contributing...

Queensland Shelter - Peak for housing needs of people on low incomes in Queensland, Australia.

cheers
ruben

drupal climate action

Posted by naught101-gdo on June 26, 2007 at 1:58pm

Mackh, I spotted the post carbon institute a few days ago, it's awesome!

I am, along with a friend, running a number of activism sites, and a number of them are based on drupal, cause it's so damn easy. here are a couple

http://www.risingtide.org.au (my local grassroots action group)
http://www.climateaction.org.au (another local group, more mainstream)
http://www.anvilhill.org.au (one of our campaigns)
http://www.hcec.org.au (our environment centre, linked to rising tide)

I'm also tech for http://www.climateimc.org (a lot of indymedia centres are going drupal - http://sydney.indymedia.org.au is, and a bunch or others)

we're also starting up an environmental tech collective, and most of our sites will be drupal, even the static ones ( http://loader.take-action.org.au is an example). we're hoping to fund it with a co-op type commercial setup, which will also be designing and maintaining websites for capos. steal from the rich, give to the poor, like :).

cheers
ned

Hey All

Posted by NonProfit on October 3, 2007 at 3:46am

Hey All, I'm a print designer by training (BA, '93), and hopped on the HTML bandwagon back around '97. This, in one form our another, has been my vocation since. I've spent the last few months figuring out Drupal's basics and am really impressed with just what it can do as well as support the forums have already provided. I'm hoping to build many Drupal sites for churches and other non profits. -NP

Linxpedia - Your freedom on the web

Posted by moonywings on February 29, 2008 at 1:33am

http://www.linxpedia.com/
Linxpedia is a directory of free online games, music, comics, podcasts, articles, books and freewares. The content is moderated to maintain a high quality. The users can rate the links and save their favorite links in their accounts.

cheers

VK Portal

Posted by dartarrow on April 14, 2008 at 11:57am

Hey Guys,

I'm pretty new to the whole concept of CMS, although I've been a PHP developer for yonks!

Anyway, My site is a complete web portal for all the residents in my apartment block - Vista Komanwel Bukit Jalil (Malaysia)
It's got a classified page which is really a taxonomy driven page, forums, notices and the usual.

I'll be Trying to beef it up, so I'm actually looking for more and better Drupal Modules.

And I'm hoping to Contribute some back to Drupal Too.

Cheers!

-dartarrow

Dermatillomania Center

Posted by adruser on October 5, 2008 at 8:21pm

This is a website dedicated to the compulsive skin picking disorder (also known as dermatillomania). It was created as an informational center for all those who suffer from this disorder. It also provides a community element, so that people can share their experience on dealing with it.

It's built on drupal 5 with some basic modules and default design (tweaked a bit). I does the job great - I love drupal!

All the best.

Pakreviews

Posted by Baber Javed on March 13, 2009 at 11:37am

My Drupal Website made in Drupal 6.0
www.pakreviews.com
A place where you can read opinions on just about anything that is available in Pakistan and even out of it. Read and learn what people have to say about a product or a company before making any decision about it. You can even add your product/company to the listing by simply signing up and adding your item and see what others say about your product/company. Discuss and share ideas with other people on the vast and interactive forums which allow users to interact with each other.

Em Happy to announce the initial launch of Pakreviews. I've revised the whole site to be much more usable and improved it by adding a lot of features (Thanks to Drupal and its such a big community of developers)

Some of the new features added are listed below,

Better and Improved Item Listing
Five Star Ratings on Products
PhotoGallery for each Item
Private Messaging
New and Improved Forums
Improved Categories Navigation & Layout
Added a Shoutbox
User Contribution Points

Knowledge Driven Networking

Posted by Sulabh on February 9, 2010 at 11:49pm

http://eZdia.com

Hello Friends,

Doing Good and Offering to the society in some way or other is a very natural appetite for every human being. The satisfaction it provides is the need of every individual and we look after it always. However the ways of doing so may differ broadly from one person to another.

eZdia is such a trusted platform where Experts are offering there services online to the knowledge seekers. Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers and many more professionals came forward and registered themselves on eZdia to provide their services online in this unique way. [[http://eZdia.com|eZdia]] provides a platform for knowledge sharing, it bridges the gap between the Expert and the Explorer. It builds your trust as your friends and connections go on proliferating through knowledge sharing. It is an initiative, first of it's kind, a completely knowledge driven networking website.

Other features of eZdia which are attracting it's users are eZdia Knowledge Bucket, where one can store and tag his contents, articles and videos and share them with their friends. eZdia Project and Chat Billing, using which you can post your projects and hire professionals to get them completed. eZdia Resume Building, which creates your Dynamic Online Resume covering every bit of knowledge and expertise you have .

Be Aware of your Expertise

Enjoy the life

Posted by MichaelGow on September 25, 2010 at 3:02pm

I made Noble drinks tasting site for my girlfriend who has passion of life, food and drinks.
I think, there are only few things in the world better that if you are enjoying the life. People, who like their life, who like tastes and smells, are people who likes the others too. And theirs happines is wave which - hopefuly - will give a little bit happiness to everybody around...

WhatsWhat.me Developed by CommonPlaces

Posted by CPEmily on February 28, 2011 at 6:24pm

CommonPlaces recently launched http://www.whatswhat.me , a unique, “kids-only,” “no bullying allowed” social network for kids 7-13.

This site was created to be safe, secure, and age-appropriate with highly sophisticated privacy and security measures in place, and in strict adherence to COPPA regulations. Because mainstream social networks are targeted at adults, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requires that members of these social networks be at least 13 years of age. However, younger kids wish to engage in social networking as well. Therefore, WhatsWhat.me (Beta) was created.

The site’s mission is to “teach and protect” children as they learn and practice positive online behavior. Also, to help parents “get smart” about kids and social networks, WhatsWhat.me (Beta) has a Parent Resource Center with “Ask The Expert,” a tech glossary, news and information on keeping kids safe online.

Learn more about CommonPlaces by visiting http://www.commonplaces.com
Learn more about WhatsWhat.me (Beta) by visiting http://whatswhat.me

Wow - I hadn't seen this

Posted by arianek on March 22, 2011 at 1:20am

Wow - I hadn't seen this thread before, so crazy - 4.5 years later and I now work as a project manager for mackh who runs http://affinitybridge.com!

Still Drupalling for Good. ;)

LimbidoGuru.com - Questions and Answers for Mothers

Posted by yulia crowder on July 6, 2011 at 6:50am

Limbido Guru is a Q & A website in the wiki way. This particular resource is aimed both at mothers and mothers-to-be. Here, they can ask all the questions regarding their pregnancy that they could have, and receive the help of community members who are willing to lend others their time and knowledge.

At www.limbidoGuru.com, once a question have been answered, questions remain open for people to add further insights to them. That is, answers are not locked when an answer materializes - far from it, they remain open forever. This is great because it makes for updating anything that has been said whenever new information (such as medical studies) becomes available.

The site is made up by just lots and lots of categories - pregnancy, breastfeeding, labor pain, caesarean section, reproductive organs... and most of these are subdivided into other categories, too.

Please visit www.limbidoGuru.com and help others by sharing your knowledge. Everyone can help!

InYourAreaNow.co.uk A free advertising portal for UK

Posted by indigoblue on April 23, 2012 at 12:18pm

Hi Everyone,

IYAN or InYourAreaNow.co.uk offers Free UK Advertising. It is based in the UK and is designed to allow businesses and local people to showcase themselves or their products for free or to use it to buy and sell locally.

I hope it will 'do good' and help business thrive in the UK. The site was developed in D7 with a large part of the development being custom module development.

Norfolk Health and Wellbeing Exchange

Posted by peter panes on May 15, 2012 at 1:00am

Its a simple site I setup to facilitate exchange health and wellbeing "products" of any kind within Norfolk UK

http://www.wellbeingexchange.org/