Transition Towns

Transition Towns (http://www.transitionnetwork.org, http://www.transitionus.org, http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz, etc.) is one of the fastest growing social movements in the world today. It's a bottom up movement made up of initiatives around the world collaborating locally and widely on community based answers to peak oil and climate change around the world, supported by Transition Network and affiliated organisations.

Drupal at the centre of a lot of the web developments. This group exists to bring together Drupal builders, site admins and developers with an interest in Transition, for knowledge sharing, and joint development activities.

Greetings from Ireland

Posted by AlexJ on October 19, 2010 at 1:43pm

I realise I have never formally introduced myself and yet joined this group about six months ago. Great work you are doing here and having TransitioDrupal.org linked is fantastic. At my first drupal camp in Ireland, I was struck with the similarity in the folk, sharing a real sense of community.

I co-moderate a 600 member strong ning site which we want to migrate to a drupal site, its our all island network site for Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland http://transitiontownsireland.ning.com/.

Hello from Transition Town North Bay

Posted by bkeevil on October 7, 2010 at 9:33pm

I'm putting the finishing touches on a website (ttnorthbay.org) for our local initiative in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. If I had known this project was under way I would have done it in Drupal instead of Joomla but there is always version 2.

I think it's pretty much a standard site with discussion forums, a newsletter, newsfeeds, etc. About the only thing unique is that we've set up an amazon.ca affiliate bookstore to help fund webhosting, etc.

Just introducing myself

Posted by rob_cornelius on October 4, 2010 at 9:07pm

Hi there all. Just to say hi and ask if there is anything I can help out with. I have been looking into the whole transition towns thing for a while now but as there is no group local to me.

I have some php skills but not with Drupal. I mainly do front end type coding (html, css and javascript) and information architecture / user experience work. If there is anything I can get involved in I am more than willing to help out.

Rob C

Mapping resources

Posted by pmackay on October 3, 2010 at 10:17am

There has previously been mentioned the idea of mapping local resources. Andre suggested contacting GreenMap.org to see if their data and/or icons could be used, which is a great idea. So do we think there is a need for a module that supports recording resources?

One local resource is fruit trees. This raises a question of generic v specific information about resources. I've thought a bit about fruit tree mapping and there could be a number of specific fields for those content types. For context I've listed some initial requirements here (http://www.transitiondrupal.org/node/16).

transitiondrupal.org website

Posted by pmackay on October 2, 2010 at 1:00pm

Wanted to start a general thread about the website. I've done a few small changes to give just a little bit more structure, but not added a lot of content yet.

Is it possible we could add WYSIWYG editing, or at least a wiki-like markup for editing content? Its not ideal having to edit HTML. I could have a go at this if the D7 module upload stuff works well, but just checking first...

Any thoughts on further improvements to the site structure welcome. For requirements we can keep editing the book. I added a Vision and Developers pages and will try to flesh out content more.

Hello from Scotland

Posted by fibie on September 30, 2010 at 11:00pm

Just wanted to say hi, I am a drupal too and happy to help out if I can.

It would be good to get up to speed with what's planned here as local groups in Scotland have been asking us for microsites too and we don't want to go ahead and duplicate what you guys are doing.

What stage is this project at just now?

I am not much of a coder but been using Drupal for a while now so might be able to help with some stuff.

Vision document

Posted by pmackay on September 26, 2010 at 8:28am

Hi,

When talking to people about this project there is a need for a short document that could outline the vision and key goals of what we are aiming for. What does anyone else think about that? It could go as content on transitiondrupal.org but a PDF could be good too.

If its felt this would make sense I could have a stab at writing a OpenOffice doc (which can save as PDF).

paul

TransitionDrupal.org License has been granted

Posted by aangel on September 22, 2010 at 3:39pm

Hi, everyone. Great news: we've qualified for a perpetual, worldwide license at no cost to use the Drupal trademark in our name.

Thus, we are authorized to use both "Transition Drupal" and "TransitionDrupal.org."

The conditions of the license are:

I object Transitions Towns change for oil, it must be change for real democracy and real free media

Posted by ClearXS on September 17, 2010 at 2:39am

To me it's some high society invention that has been planned for many years; the transition from petrol to other resources. A few decades ago they destroyed individuals and companies that tried something like this and bought their patents and put it in a safe. Maybe this was going on for over 100 years, as some think about the 'free energy' inventions of Tesla. But after their destruction, their investments have shifted in that 'green' energy.

theCOREconference

Posted by pmackay on September 13, 2010 at 6:50pm

Looks like a very interesting conference on tools for communities and so on:

http://thecoreconference.com/

Kicking the tires of Open Atrium and whether it make sense for a Transition Initiative

Posted by reikiman on August 26, 2010 at 8:23pm

It's been awhile since I was in communication with this group - but that doesn't mean I'm not interested in the project, I've just been very very busy. I put together a site with organic groups for Transition Silicon Valley, but the team hasn't adopted using it yet. Meaning I don't know whether the configuration I created will work in practice. Recently I've been using an OpenAtrium site because I write for examiner.com and part of the examiner 2.0 transition is to set up an OpenAtrium site as a private community for Examiners to chat with each other.

Drupal devs sought for TT initiative

Posted by edmittance on August 5, 2010 at 11:04am

Appalachian Transition are looking for some drupal devs to estimate and deliver some tech work for them. Please can you get in touch via their twitter @AppTransition or drop me a line and I'll put you in touch.

Thanks!

Community Microsites on tn.org: update

Posted by edmittance on July 21, 2010 at 10:20am

We're going to host some very simple 'community microsites' (organic groups) for initiatives who need them on http://www.transitionnetwork.org. I see them as something lower down the food chain than the Transition Drupal offer, and look forward to working out how the inter-connections between TN.org and Transition Drupal work out.

These are one of a bunch of valuable inter-connections which I'm going to keep looking for discussions about here.

Here is the update from our end:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ed-mitchell/2010-07/community-mic...

best,
Ed

Ning migration tools?

Posted by jdaviescoates on July 19, 2010 at 11:02am

Just wondering if there is anyone in this group working on ning to drupal migration tools? Its is possible to get all the data out of a Ning network using the Ning Archiver tool:
http://help.ning.com/cgi-bin/ning.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3796

But it'd be really great if this project were able to build a module/ or write a tutorial about how best to get the data IN to a fresh drupal install.

Is anyone working on this?

Thanks,

Josef.

Content Structure / Some Noobish Questions

Posted by Joschka on July 15, 2010 at 12:38pm

Hello All,

here I am reinventing the wheel to help my local TT initative (Berlin SO36) rework the website. The project you have started to create a Drupal "package" geared towards TT websites is excellent! It would be a very very useful thing to have. Since I installed Drupal for the first time just yesterday, there is not much to contribute from my side at the moment, but this will hopefully change. If anything, I could help with a German localisation.

Now one of the first concepts giving me (and a lot of people new to Drupal I guess) a headache is the Taxonomy/CCK Fields/Content Type stuff. Not sure if I really got the basic concepts right, but I would love to get comments, corrections or links to resources anyway. Now, trying to keep this compact...

Towards creating a Transition Initiatives web / communication platform

Posted by e.m.fields on July 14, 2010 at 3:10pm

Hi all.
I'd like to start gathering interested / willing persons for discussion about creating a unified "out of the box" web / communications platform for Transition Initiatives.

Initiative website figures

Posted by edmittance on July 13, 2010 at 8:53pm

We've soft launched the forums on Tn.org and the following discussion on web stats for initiative sites is ticking over nicely:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/forum/support/web-usage-statistics-tran...

Hope this helps!

Couple of questions

Posted by pmackay on July 6, 2010 at 9:51pm

I've got a few technical questions that I've come across while working with the D6 stuff - perhaps someone can help.

What is the best way to location enable a content type? After installing the location module it adds a Location section to a content type, but also its possible to add a Location field. What is the best approach? Any pros/cons?

Information Architecture Team Meeting

Posted by jacobalonzo on June 26, 2010 at 4:10pm

Greetings IA Team Members,
I am planning a skype meeting to discuss where we are and of course to gathering your input.
I am Eastern Daylight Time, Time zone offset: UTC - 4 hours
I am very flexible with the meeting date and times, so please let me know all the dates and times you are available.
I would like to schedule the SKYPE meeting with the next 2 weeks.
I am currently using MS Project, so please let me know if you can support that document or prefer to use a different project management software, preferably open source, so it can be available to the entire team.

A coalition of the willing

Posted by chrisdwells_ on June 23, 2010 at 9:31pm

I would urge everyone contributing or even those just tracking this Drupal Group to visit this site, watch the film and reflect on whether there is something here that the our Transition Drupal project can contribute to in some way: http://coalitionofthewilling.org.uk

I'm not sure but the third section proposes a three-pronged website strategy involving a social network spanning local, regional, national and global levels to connect climate change solutions to those in need. I know it's not precisely what we're doing but is there something here worth exploring?

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