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.
Complementary Currencies
Greetings,
I want to bring to your attention the Complementary Currencies module for Drupal, and my organisation, Community Forge which is hosting 12 sites for CC communities, and growing.
If this group wants to offer transition initiatives web sites based on a design, then I have experience of building and hosting such a service. You can have the installation profile for the demo site, if you want it as a starting point.
Transition UK conference
We'll be doing our best to blog and video and photograph the Transition Network UK conference - all information on the conference blog introduction here: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/conference-2010
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Resilience indicators
One Transition-specific feature we should think about is capturing resilience indicators. It might include:
Defining a set of indicators for a TI. These could be based on a set of common defaults.
Determine how to measure them locally.
Investigate what data sources exist to help capture them.
Capture metrics/data for each indicator.
Displaying those indicators and trends on the site.
Some questions:
How important is it to use the same set of indicators?
How relevant is each indicator to a specific area?
How helpful are indicators to frame people's thinking?
developer role for Wiser Earth
Sweet looking job, local to SF:
http://www.wiserearth.org/job/view/710070367cdfe660f8dda0dd2b5fe97f
Please forward to developer mates etc. :)
Read moreInternet use research from Pew
you might find this intresting:
"Americans use a range of approaches to keep informed about what is happening in their communities and online activities have been added to the mix. Face-to-face encounters and phone calls remain the most frequent methods of interaction with neighbors. At the same time, internet tools are gaining ground in community-oriented communications."
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Neighbors-Online.aspx
and some analysis from e democracy:
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Drupal dev interested in the Transition movement
My professional background is in web development. I am interested in this movement. Ready to help.
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New York Times Article
A good piece on Transition goals / philosophy in the New York Times today
Read moreIntegrating external sites
There are an increasing number of sites focussed on sharing/exchanging/swapping items and skills, which are great Transition features. What are our thoughts on integrating these sites into Transition Drupal, or would it be preferable to build in the features directly?
http://www.ecomodo.com/
http://www.thingloop.com/
See http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/011171.html for links to more US sites.
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Call: Overview of Survey Results and IA Team Kickoff
We just had a call with Ed discussing the biggest items he learned from the survey results, plus we formed the IA team and selected a date for the final IA documents. Other people are welcome to join the IA team...just get in contact with Jacob (http://groups.drupal.org/user/158453/contact)
http://files.me.com/aangel/drewsx.mp3 (64 min)
Here is the transcript:
Ed Mitchell: have a look at the transition primer for some handy info on TT:
[5/20/10 8:13:08 AM] Ed Mitchell: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/resources/transition-primer
Great to see this
The champion of our group, Mark Judemann of Transition Houston, sent us (the Media Group) a pointer to the info about TransitionTown Drupal. We're just getting our site together now (with Drupal). See what we have so far at http://www.transitionhouston.org/ . "Pardon our construction", there isn't much there yet.
Our team has some experienced Drupal folks as well as some pretty good writers.
One of our taxonomy structures goes under the umbrella term of "Action Groups" (these categories exist on our site now, with no real content). The Action Groups are:
- Administration
I'm here to work
This morning I hopped from the Transition Vermont ning site to the Transition US official site to this one to offer assistance with information architecture and documentation, especially, and anywhere, as able.
Read moreCommenting wiki pages
This is a newbie question - is there any convention for commenting wiki pages in Drupal groups? Wiki text at the bottom? Separate discussion threads?
Thanks :)
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Also I wanted to get views on documentation. There currently is:
This Drupal group:
- wiki pages
- discussions
http://www.transitiondrupal.org/
Created by Andre.
- requirements document (book form, limited editors?)
- comments
http://trac6.assembla.com/transition-initiatives-web
Started by London TIs
- wiki
- Trac tickets
- SVN integration
Things I think it could be helpful to define are:
What are the official documentation/discussion tools or sources?
What features do they need?
Read moreTaxonomy
This is where we are with the taxonomy for Transition US as it relates to "assets" on our website. I appreciate the needs of a national hub are very different than a group in the weeds but perhaps you can glean some value from this list.
Organizational (relating to TI organizational needs)
-Diversity
--Social Justice
-Dynamics
-Fundraising
-Governance
--Conflict Resolution
--Decision Making
--Event Production
--Initiating Group
--Meeting Facilitation
--Partnering
--Structure
--Working Groups
-Tools
--Mapping
Proposed sitemap
Primary navigation
I should just note that this sitemap is work I have done for my own Transition Initiative with a view to then expanding it to be relevant to any TT later. Now that it is here, I would value the input of as many editors as possible to ensure it is of relevance to as many towns as possible. Please bear this in mind when editing so that we can all benefit from using it in the 1.0 release.
Read moreTransition Information Architecture Wiki
This is a draft Information Architecture for Transition sites which I've been developing for several weeks for my own Initiative site in Kensal-Kilburn, part of the London Transition network in the UK. It needs your help to develop so please feel free to edit at will. Transition is still such a new type of movement that encompasses so much of our lives that it's tricky to know how deep to go but let's use this Wiki as a way to begin discussions.
Read moreKick off call recording
Hi, all. Here is the kick off call from May 6, 2010. In it we introduce ourselves and discuss the goals of the project, which roles are filled and unfilled, the major components of the project and a rough timeline. Nothing is etched in stone but I think there was consensus of the direction we're headed.
If you are planning on participating in the project, please have a listen so that you get a sense of all the above. (And if anyone wants to jot down notes and add them below, that would be great....)
The intros are the first 10 minutes or so and you'll hear André, Chris, Paul and Wes. T
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