The July meetup is shaping up to be something special! TriDUG's own Jason Hibbets and Alice Williams will be giving talks on Online Community Building and Red Hat has agreed to host the event.
This month's Presentation:Creating Community the Open Source Way
Jason and Alice will be detailing their experiences with online community building using open source technology.
Presenters:
Jason Hibbets
Alice Williams
Jason Hibbets is a project manager in Brand Communications + Design, at Red Hat, where he leads a team of writers who are the voices of the Red Hat brand. He also is the lead administrator for opensource.com and has been with Red Hat since 2003.
Alice Williams has nearly 15 years of experience in creating web sites, crafting information architecture and implementing online marketing and social engagement campaigns in the nonprofit, higher-education, and corporate arenas. She serves as an online strategist at hesketh.com, a Raleigh, N.C.-based user-experience and web-design agency that has been supporting nonprofit clients since its creation in 1995.
Location:
Red Hat
1801 Varsity Drive
Raleigh NC
Doors open @ 6:30, presentation to start @ 7:00
Comments
A couple of questions for July 22 meetup
I can't make it to the July 22 meetup, but Saroj is going to try video taping it for me and Julia.
I've experimented a little with community sites using forums (core) for discussion, book for building resource collections, and OG for special interest groups (the main site is http://nccommunities.org/). I'm interested in what modules the presenters recommend, particularly for building resource collections. I wasn't able to find a good way to use books to build resource collections for special interest groups, with OG, especially for private groups. Should I use wikis instead? Or do you suggest just using taxonomy and tags?
I'm also interested in the presenters opinions of Open Atrium. And, while CiviCRM has a different purpose, have you worked with any community sites that include CiviCRM? I'm thinking primarily about CiviEvent, CiviMail, and smart groups. Donor management, membership management, etc. are pluses.
Judy Hallman
CiviCRM
I wasn't able to present or address your specific question last night, we didn't get that technical. I did see this on Twitter this morning, not sure if it will help:
http://drupal.org/project/civicrmsolr
Tweet:
https://twitter.com/robertDouglass/status/19329446911
Thanks for the info
civicrmsolr looks good. Thanks for the info.
I've been looking at Drupal Commons today and it looks terrific!
Judy Hallman
CiviCRM and Drupal Commons
If I'm not wrong, CiviCRM focus seems to be mainly about the relationships between a nonprofit organization and their members, groups of volunteers, etc. Drupal Commons seems to be more about community relationships between the members themselves.
I think Drupal Commons integrates Organic Groups and other modules. This means that, if needed, CiviCRM and Drupal Commons can work together on the same site. See Organic Groups CiviCRM Synchronization.
Presentation posted
My presentation from last week's TriDUG meeting is now available: http://opensource.com/life/10/7/creating-online-community-open-source-way
Next month's meeting looks great, thanks for setting it up afreeman.
Jason