Groups.Drupal Church

There was some talk a while back that MFer got started about finding a direction or purpose for the groups.drupal.org/churches group.

I'd like to propose a new initiative for the group: to mobilize churches that use Drupal in order to improve Drupal for churches. At the same time we would be able to contribute these improvements back to the Drupal community. g.d.o/churches could organize and server as a hub for those efforts.

Here's what I'm thinking.

Step 1 Gather Needs

If you are going to drupalcon and want to meetup with others using drupal for church and ministry purposes, we are tentatively planning to meet Wednesday night.

See the post here http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/632#comment-988

also I'll post in that discussion thread the time an place as well as send out via twitter.

Looking forward to meeting some of you guys!

Lee

Drupal, as a project, is always moving, changing, and improving from version to version. This happens when hundreds of developers work on these improvements, test them, review the changes, and work towards a well written and designed solution. The detailed reviews take longer for features to land in drupal but they are more well thought out, more well written, and documented in a much more usable fashion.

The Church Websites Running Drupal wiki page has been a long standing list of church websites running drupal. Over the past couple years this list had grown into quite a long list and looked rather unorganized. This past week Stephen (aka kjv1611) cleaned up the list organizing it alphabetically with separators. It's much easier to look at and read.

Hey guys, I tried this with D5 and was never able to come up with a good solution. Anybody have ideas on how to accomplish this? Here's the bare minimum requirements I'd have:

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I have just been reading about the recently announced Acquia Drupal https://acquia.com/product-matrix

Based on their product matrix it sounds as though one may download Drupal 6.5 with most of the commonly desired modules - well tested - plus some additional custom Acquia features for free with user forum only support.

Could this be the answer that many churches are seeking to bypass the setup hassle and guesswork that a module will or will not work?

We are building a site for a church. However, we need a consistent set of icons that is church-related. I can find icons with houses, people (for activities), but no one that are specific church-related.

Does anyone here know a good place to get some graphic stuff for churches?

It's time for the Churches group to have a solid homepage. ebrittwebb started the move towards using panels to display the groups information, posts, polls, and other stuff in ways that aren't just a river of news. I'd like to take this a step further and incorporate the types of things you, the groups users, use along with what would be good for potential new people to the group. So please, let me know what types of information you'd like to see at a glance and what types of information you think would be good for new comers. Making this group as usable as possible will be important in making this group as useful as possible.