Hello from Reno!
I work for the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada Reno. Students in our graduate program in interactive environmental journalism are launching a Drupal driven site about environmental issues in the Tahoe area in March and we're looking for a developer or two to do some custom module work (or maybe CCK?). We'd like to have the option of meeting face to face with developers if possible so I'm cross posting this to the Sacramento Area, Southern California, Las Vegas, and Bay Area groups as well as the Newspapers on Drupal group. This site is going to be ongoing project for the school, so there will likely be an opportunity for additional work next year.
If you're interested, please contact me.
Kevin Reynen
Integrated Media Coordinator
Reynolds School of Journalism and
Advanced Media Research
University of Nevada, Reno
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Unfortunately I don't have
Unfortunately I don't have any free time to help with your project but I would be interested finding out who you come across in our neck of the woods who is working with Drupal. I'm in Roseville with Gold Country Media. I don't have a huge budget but I do have some budget set aside for part-time work on what I think are some pretty interesting projects.
Kevin, I also might be contacting you down the road about possible journalism internships, if that's an option.
A few hours from Reno
Hi!
I'm in Jackson, California - about three hours from Reno. I do custom Drupal module development for my own in-house projects and related business ventures (as well as contributed modules on drupal.org).
I'm not sure if I'm a good fit for your requirements - what kind of projects are you considering?
Michael Curry
Exodus Development | Drupal and other developer info
Michael Curry
Drupal and Windows Tips
Project Description
The grad students are developing web based tools and/or configuring existing tools to provide quality environmental journalism for the Lake Tahoe area. Some of these grad projects are just a collection of existing Drupal modules. Others exist outside of Drupal and simply tap into Drupal's user/session management. I was thinking that at least one requires a custom Drupal module, but another developer we talked to thought it could be done with Views and CCK. We want this done as quickly as possible so we were tempted to go that direction, but the timing didn't work out with him. I posted a my CCK/Views vs. Custom module questions to Nick Lewis's blog a few days ago...
http://www.nicklewis.org/node/885
My time is split between supporting the undergrad classes and this project. I've got more than enough work getting the main site's structure configured, up, and running. I've flushed out the main navigation elements here http://dev.ourtahoe.org/.
Last semester we created a functioning prototype of the Promise tool by posting to PHP enabled nodes so the form design, inserts and data structures exist in one form or another. We've since changed some of the features based on decisions made about the larger site. Users will no longer be able to post with only an email address... they must register for an account. We aren't going to take any $$ or link to Fundable, PayPal, or any thing like that.
My plan was to "modularize" this after the site structure was done, but the faculty would really like to get Promise up and running before that.
If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please give me a call. I've sent you my cell directly using your contact tab.
Just down the road
I am based in Carson City, and work for the Nevada Appeal as web editor, as well as helping out with projects for all Sierra Nevada Media Group papers. I have been experimenting with Drupal for about a year, and run my blog on it now. I'm not knowledgable enough to do development like what you need yet, but I would be interested in keeping track of your progress.
Another in Reno
I'm new to the area (about 6 months now) and Drupal, and just saw your post so I thought I'd chime in . . . it's kind of exciting to see the use of Drupal by the School of Journalism . . .