community organizing

Hello,

I have recently been asked, as administrator of the Ottawa Drupal Group, to add administrators. I will gladly do so, especially since I have moved to Montreal a few years ago and I am practically not involved anymore in the drupal community.

If you are interested in becoming an organizer for the Ottawa Drupal Group, could you please add a comment under this post:

• briefly introducing yourself and your company / organization
• stating why you are interested in becoming an organizer
• describing what you offer to do an as organizer

Bonjour,

Pour une bonne préparation de l’évènement, je vous propose de suivre les recommandation et les bonnes pratiques citées sur : http://drupal.org/node/247952

Since I mentioned that one of the outcomes of the "Drupal Camp Asheville and Drupal Carolinas LLC" discussion should be a communications proposal, I'll step up to the plate. (ref: http://groups.drupal.org/node/139499#comment-458504)

I'll first start off by saying that many people have already done this, we just need to understand what our needs our and what is the best way to solve them. I think a critical part of any sucessful organization is having a clear way to communicate and a governance model that works for the groups needs. Let's see what that might like to get thing started...

We are looking for suggestions for improvements of our Drupal/CiviCRM site http://lptexas.org . There is money for making it more appealing and useful, so suggestions or perhaps a little volunteer work could lead to contract work. No promises, but perhaps worth your attention. Some of the obvious ones include:

1. Better online donation form that meets federal and state reporting requirements.
2. Subsites for every county that can be managed by the county chair or someone local to post things like calendars of events.
3. Subsites for candidates that they can manage.

I've been organizing the Johannesburg Drupal user group meetups and came across this excellent posting which touches on group leadership, saying "First, do not try to do it alone".

To help group organizers meet eachother and share their knowledge, tips & ticks for organizing and motivating drupal groups i've launched a new drupal irc channel #drupal-groups.

I encourage everyone to join this channel to discuss how to improve user participation in drupal groups and other helpful information.

I strongly encourage group members to join in on the discussion because group organizers are doing this for YOU. Having your feedback on various issues will help us greatly improve different aspects of the group that matter to you most.

SEE YOU THERE!

Hi folks,

I began working on a side project a month or so ago to create a system with Drupal that will allow organizers to collaboratively manage volunteers, events and field operations. I have been surprised by the demand for a system like this and I would like to take this past idea stage and formalize a fork of Drupal for campaigns/organizations.

The general functionality I am looking to build in (some of which is completed) is:
1) Calendar
2) Management of campaign requests
2) Task management
3) Volunteer database

Hello everyone,

Some friends and I are puting together an "drupal academy" in spanish, where we will be creating screencasts and providing them for free to the community, and we'd like to learn from your experience here at dojo.

As all this will b on our free time of course, we don't want to "get our fingers stuck in the door" timewise, and stil provide with nice useful content.

Merci pour avoir participé à notre petit dîner que j'espère annoncera une activité plus soutenu de la petite communauté Drupal française. On a quand même été 16 participants, sans communication aucune! Je liste ci-bas les noms et les adresses de participants pour faciliter le contact. On va continuer nos discussions sur groups.drupal.org/france. J'espère qu'un compte rendu plus complet va suivre, mais je note ce que je crois avoir été nos décisions principales: