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.

Schumacher College looking for Drupal people

Posted by edmittance on September 9, 2015 at 10:08am

Hello,

I hope all are well and happy, and that this is the correct format and location for this post.

I've been asked to post this on behalf of a client who are about to embark on a Drupal 7 'social network' project to fit within an existing Drupal-friendly set up (D7, SugarCRM, Jitterbit, Moodle, etc.). They're a good bunch and it could be a friendly, long-term relationship with a neat evolving service worth looking into.

Here it is:

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Drupal Meetup at Playaskool in Black Rock City, Nevada, at 1:30pm on Friday, August 30, 2013

Posted by christefano on August 6, 2013 at 4:24am

Start:

2013-08-30 14:00 - 16:00 America/Los_Angeles

Organizers:

christefano

Kate Miller

DarrellDuane

Event type:

User group meeting

https://twitter.com/DrupalBRC

We're having our first Drupal event on the playa at Burning Man! Join us at 1:30pm on Friday, August 30, 2013, at Playaskool. Sign up below and follow DrupalBRC on Twitter for updates.

Burning Man Regional Groups and Theme Camps Using Drupal

Posted by christefano on August 3, 2013 at 11:38pm
Last updated by norma88nurse on Mon, 2018-05-07 09:14

This wiki page documents the Burning Man regional groups and theme camps that use Drupal as part of their online operations.

We'd like this document to be as accurate and up-to-date as possible, so edit this wiki!

Environment Agency hack day

Posted by edmittance on March 9, 2013 at 10:58am

Just seen and registered to go to this which might be of interest to some in this group:
http://www.envhack.com/en/posts/

Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS)

Posted by jrcbriggs on November 8, 2012 at 10:14pm

I am helping to write a proposal for €1-2m EU university research funds to build ...

Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS).

I dub this software4transition.

Summary of related initiaves

Posted by matslats on September 18, 2012 at 2:34pm

I think it's time for a summary of Transitiony Drupal initiatives.[Cross posted to Transition Drupal group]
Forgive me some of what I say will not be accurate, but my attempt here is to give a big picture.

First of all the 'official' initiative made some progress this weekend in separating 2 use-cases1) The transition groups themselves2) The local communities in which transition groups operate

Is anyone using Drupal to connect their neighbors? (Twin Cities)

Posted by netclift on August 31, 2012 at 2:23am

I am looking for Drupal folks interested in experimenting with Drupal to connect the neighbors on their own block. (or two)

Who's in?

At a minimum, E-Democracy.org can provide pizza and beer for those interested in a little hack event to put together some tools.

In addition to the latest social media, we are interested in ideas and tools about how to reach people on urgent matters via text as well as DrupalVOIP options to reaching elderly neighbors with voicemail calls.

The hack event would be a couple of months from now in St. Paul or Minneapolis.

Cheers,
Steven Clift

Counceling wanted: Social Network dedicated to sustainable settlements

Posted by creando sensaciones on July 31, 2012 at 6:49pm

I'm part of the IT Team of GEN (Global Ecovillage Network) and actually working on a Drupal platform which will be used by CASA (American Councel of Sustainable Settlements) and RIE (Iberian Network of Ecovillages). In the future more affiliated networks might join and thematic sites about related subjects (permaculture, green building, etc.) might get integrated.

Developing for the Ecovillage Network

Posted by creando sensaciones on July 24, 2012 at 9:16am

First of all I want to present myself. My name is Achim. I run a project about creative sustainability in Spain called Valle de Sensaciones (www.valle.de.sensaciones.de / www.sensaciones.de).
I'm part of the IT Team of the Global Ecovillage Network. Our network collaborates and identifies with the Transition Town movement. Thats why I just got member of your group and post this announcement here.

Using Drupal Commons distribution as a foundation

Posted by mariomaric on March 23, 2012 at 12:06pm

Hello everybody.

This is in some way call to arms! ;)

I would like to suggest CSA, Transition towns and other real-world communities and individuals to join forces and resources and help Acquia to build one community Drupal distribution to rule them all. :)

transitiondrupal.org current status?

Posted by hexag on January 19, 2012 at 11:36am

Hi all,

Really interested in this project, but there seems to be little activity on it recently. What are its current movements? I would be very interested in working on this project, especially in Drupal 7, which by looking at the design spec, should be more than possible with today's state of modules. I'm happy & able to do the backend monkey work & less comfortable with the theming.

Newbie here. With a major offering.

Posted by jackspiv on December 28, 2011 at 8:55pm

Hi, My name is Jack Spivak. In Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Please check out this full featured and, so far, "unadvertised" drupal communities installation/platform, GrassrootsPower!!

Just got excited to see that Transition is thinking about drupal!

I'm joining your conversation for whatever I can offer/provide. Been working about 3 years already to put a robust Drupal offering together for groups/communities interested in doing productive work together. It is based on a social network backbone but has a purpose and interface with a decided workgroup flavor. It is specifically targeted at social, economic and environmental justice movements and includes some very novel concepts around automatic information sharing based on principles of knowledge ecosystems and communities of practice.

Transition Edinburgh South uses Drupal 7

Posted by servicewriting on November 24, 2011 at 3:07pm

Hello everybody. I'm Sarah and part of Transition Edinburgh South.

For those interested, http://www.transitionedinburghsouth.org.uk uses Drupal 7.

I wrote most of the copy for it, and was on the team that developed the website. The project was interesting because it consisted entirely of people from the community.

We also used Open Atrium to coordinate the efforts. You can see me blogging about Open Atrium vs Face book

Drupal for resilient communities

Posted by matslats on May 6, 2011 at 12:26am

There is a clear, clear need for a certain kind of community web application, but so far, it hasn't been well articulated. Because the communities that need it aren't investing in web technologies, for various reason, the commercial sphere isn't addressing this need at all.

The needs this group is trying to address are in no way specific to transition towns.

Transition Asheville uses Drupal Commons 6.x-1.5

Posted by topfloorstudio on April 22, 2011 at 6:27am

If anyone is interested in discussing let me know: http://transitionasheville.org

Ty Hallock, thallock@topfloorstudio.com

Transition Network website survey results

Posted by edmittance on March 8, 2011 at 12:03pm

Hi all,

we've just completed a survey of the Transition Network site (http:/www.transitionnetwork.org) which I thought you might be interested in:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ed-mitchell/2011-03/web-project-s...

VoIP Drupal

Posted by pmackay on March 5, 2011 at 12:31pm

Saw this announcement go out, seemed worth being aware of:

Hello all,

It is with great pleasure that I would like to announce the first release of the VoIP Drupal platform (http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal)!

VoIP Drupal is an innovative framework that brings the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal sites.

VoIP Drupal can be used to build hybrid applications combining regular touchtone phones, web, SMS, Twitter, IM and other communication tools in a variety of ways, including:

Voice- and SMS-based Go Out to Vote campaigns

It's time!

Posted by aangel on January 17, 2011 at 5:51am

Now that D7 has been released, we have to make some fundamental project decisions.

Our own code base or wait for Drupal Commons to port to D7.
Which contributed modules to support?
Which unique modules to design and build?
How does the project get supported? (More below.)
How do we handle themes? Harvard's system in Open Scholar is elegant.
How do we upgrade installations? Features or the new kid on the block, Site Update?
Our own code base or Drupal Commons?

Benefits of Drupal Commons

Happy New Year!

Posted by ianedwards on January 17, 2011 at 12:32am

Just checking in with you guys to see where things are at. Is this still the main forum for communication on the TD project?

I've just signed up an account at transitiondrupal.org which seems to let me comment there. There's also been a lot of updates over there recently. But no names yet in the 'who' column on the features list - is the main issue waiting for all the modules to update ready for Drupal 7?

I'm new to team projects - I assume if I sign up for the Git code repository it will all become clear and I can start getting my hands dirty?

Transition US website -- google search results displaying spam

Posted by Carl Shuller on October 20, 2010 at 10:31pm

Hi,

I maintain the TUS website and wanted to get some thoughts from this group. When you type something like 'transition movement' into a search engine you will see an ad for xanax under the link to our website. Here is my path to resolve and was hoping to get your feedback ...

1) Search all core files for embedded text and delete (in process)
2) If this does not work then restore from backup (database and files)

3) Do an upgrade of core and all modules
4) Request Google to rescan our site

Has this kind of thing happened to any one on this list before?

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