Marc Salvatierra gave a walkthrough of the Drupal installation he is developing for ICANN committees.
Brady Westwater proposed that our Group take up the challenge of creating a distribution for Neighborhood Councils. We accepted. More on that soon.
A brief digression into site usability and the challenge of Web based services brought up a slew of points and asides about Trust Metrics and Micro-payments, which are simply opposite sides of the coin.
Technical difficulties scraped our continuing tutorial on a basic install, which will resume next meeting, and JP got some wonderful feedback on how to structure his continuing IDE tutorial.
A weekly Westside Meeting was proposed, and heartily supported.
Now that the group has found its focus, bringing individuals in to discuss their Web based publishing challenges, and find Drupal based solutions, we can expect more pointed agendas in the future. May 27th’s meeting will not disappoint.
That is all,
Richard
Comments
neighborhood councils
I'd be interested in helping with the Neighborhood Councils distribution. I run an active Neighborhood Website in Long Beach hosted by the Belmont Heights Community Association (BHCA) - www.MyBelmontHeights.org - I somewhat recently upgraded the site to Drupal 5.1 - so have yet to re-theme the site since I do it in my spare time and I'm more interested in functionality. BHCA is comprised of 3,000+ residents, the website has 125 registered users and 500-600 unique visitors a month. The site originally went live using Drupal 4.5, then migrated to 4.6, 4.7, 5.0 and 5.1.
A REALLY nice aspect of the site from a developer standpoint is that it's a REAL site... with REAL users... but its not mission critical. It allows a developer to play with a live sandbox - unlike a mission critical application. I suggest anyone looking for a good test environment volunteer a little of their free time to run a Neighborhood website of their own. It has the added benefit of networking with your neighbors. The hard part is staying apolitical. :-P
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mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }
ICANN Public Participation Site
Richard,
Thank you again for the opportunity to discuss ICANN's work with Drupal at Sunday's meeting.
I just want to point out that the URL for ICANN's current Drupal project is not http://www.icann.org, which is actually ICANN's (historically) main web address.
The URL of interest to the Drupal community would be http://public.icann.org, which is the ICANN Public Participation Site, most recently used to encourage remote participation by the public at ICANN's 28th International Public Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.
Regards,
Marc Salvatierra