Posted by jefmcclimans on September 21, 2012 at 5:26pm
Hello, I am thinking of creating a Drupal Community, for some of the non-profits in my area to better communicate. I am new to Drupal, and though this would be an interesting/challenging project to get started learning about it. I have a friend who has been working with Drupal for a while, but has never built a community. A coworker suggested me this book to get started http://www.duoconsulting.com/capturing-community. Has anyone read this? Does anyone have other suggestions of where to start? Should I even be considering this task?
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Community Building
From my perspective I think you are on the right track. I'm not familiar with the book you referenced, but the idea of researching "community building" first and how to do it with Drupal second, IMHO is a good approach. First understand what can be done and what you want to do, then investigate how to achieve it. That way, when you decide to put in a feature, or you need to chose between two or more ways to achieve a result, you will have a basis for evaluation.
I mainly used a couple of non-Drupal books for my investigation:
Then there are also a few Drupal books which you can use to see how you can go about implementing your community concepts using Drupal as a framework, but you will have a grounding first in what you want to achieve in terms of community.
Good luck with your effort. If you want a few more ideas relative to how I approached it, I've kept some log notes at http://architectedfutures.info/. Not as much as I'd like to put out there in terms of sharing, but there's a start.
Again, good luck!
I have one already at
I have one already at http://drupaldeveloper.in
You may want to give it a try!
Regards.
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