Posted by damienmckenna on January 12, 2010 at 7:10pm
I had an idea about the fact we'll have a bunch of nonprofit organizations applying for the free site but who don't make the cut..
What if we opened it up to allow developers to contact the nonprofit orgs who don't aren't selected to do a free site for them? It could be a really good way to get the (hopefully) many beginners who attend something tangible to work on and also support the local community?
On that note, will the site that's built be made available for download, e.g. as an installation profile or something?
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Overflow Interest/Request by Non-Profits
I would suggest a Drupal workshop for Non-Profits for organizations that are not selected if there is enough interest. The workshop idea has been suggested to the Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center at Rollins College, but a Saturday workshop at MindComet or other alternate location could be done if Rollins did not want to participate. I was hoping to generate interest for a workshop before FLDrupalCamp, but the Philanthropy Center's annual membership meeting last week got postponed.
The notion of a installation profile is a good idea. Ryan and I have discussed something like a "Generic Non-Profit" image on Amazon services. The work Andrew is doing now with taxonomy and Ubercart could be adapted nicely for a more manageable starting point for non-profits than installing CiviCRM.
I think that's a great idea!
I think that's a great idea!
Then again..
Of course, with the horribly low number of submissions we've had so far there might not be much point..
How many have submitted so
How many have submitted so far? And is there any way to see the list?
To tell you the truth, I haven't promoted it hardcore, because the more entrants you have, the less of a chance for each to win, and the more that get let down in the end.
I've been in contact with Brian Johnston from AMPUCAMP who is very much in need, and is building a community ready to put the site to use. I've seen his passion from MindComet's CommuniCause campaign, and he's expressed his willingness to participate in the event (he'd be driving from the Atlanta area).
So I guess what I'm thinking is that if you end with say... 5 submissions... would that be a bad thing? You make one nonprofit really happy, and the other four would be a very manageable number for the rest of the community to reach out to, versus 20 or 50 which probably wouldn't receive the same level of attention. And assuming that was the case, it'd be a hell of a story to tell next year. From the five that participated, we knocked one out at DrupalCamp, and in the following year, the other four were helped by members of the community.
What are your thoughts?
need to get the word out
So far we've only had 2 applications filed for Coding For a Cause. This is probably a result of us not getting the word out enough, something I hope to remedy after tomorrow's meetup in Altamonte Springs.
-mike
Ah I see, two is quite low. I
Ah I see, two is quite low. I might be able to help provide some local contacts that we found when researching for a prior project. We have quite a large national list, actually.