Drupalcon Boston 2008 - Activism http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/taxonomy/term/39/0 en UrbanMinistry.org http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/showcase/urbanministryorg <p>UrbanMinistry.org, which TechMission launched in April 2007, is one of the leading Web 2.0 destinations for the faith-based social services sector with partners including Salvation Army, World Vision, Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, CCDA and many others. The site is an integration of Drupal, CiviCRM, Moodle and ChristianVolunteering.org. </p> <p>The site has over 5,500 items of content including a Wiki for with thousands of pages of nonprofit resources and over a thousand workshops audios and videos on nonprofit topics from partner nonprofit conferences. Site media are presented using a variety of customized node types: videos can easily be embedded from YouTube and other external services, audio can be bulk imported from the filesystem and played on an embedded Flash player, book listings can be imported from Amazon, and both blogs and wiki entries can be easily composed using FCKEditor. Most recently, we added a jobs board using the Jobs Module which uses a custom CCK nodetype to present user-submitted job opportunities.</p> <p>All the content coming from TechMission, its partners, and site users can be classified using multiple Taxonomy vocabularies. Partner content is presented in distinct themes using Taxonomy Theme. Taxonomy Access Control Light restricts access to members-only content.</p> <p>Users can find content quickly by navigating through the Book hierarchy in our Encyclopedia of Urban Ministry wiki or by using the Faceted Search to drill down through the taxonomy structure. Links to both Faceted Search results pages and custom Views are used to present specific types of content, such as CCDA conference audio from 2006 or books on volunteering targeted at churches. Pathauto creates readable URLs for all nodes, taxonomy terms, and RSS feeds on the site. Users may also subscribe to our media through iTunes; we use Views RSS combined with the FeedBurner module to generate podcasts with trackable subscription statistics.<br /> Our UrbanMinistry.org Drupal installation serves content up to other domain names, including ChristianVolunteering.org, BlazingGrace.org, and City Vision College (<a href="http://www.cityvision.edu" title="www.cityvision.edu">www.cityvision.edu</a>). Referer Themes change the site look and feel radically depending on what site users have previously been viewing. </p> <p>The site provides association management system using the combined power of Drupal and CiviCRM. Membership in TechMission’s AC4 association and enrollments at City Vision College are handled by CiviMember. The site also provides Google mapping capability for over 2,000 nonprofit organizations using CiviCRM. New AC4 members, City Vision College students, and ChristianVolunteering.org are also automatically granted accounts on UrbanMinistry.org. </p> <p>The site is also integrated with our online school City Vision College. Students can use a single-signon between the the Moodle course management system at cityvision.edu/courses and UrbanMinistry.org. All major course content is available for free online through UrbanMinistry.org.</p> <p>Drupal’s flexibility and modular structure make it the ideal platform for a rapidly-changing community-based website like ours. From small beginnings, UrbanMinistry.org has quickly grown to become a central hub for TechMission’s programs, as well as a media repository for several prominent. The site has become integral to our mission of using technology to transform vulnerable communities.</p> http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/showcase/urbanministryorg#comments Activism CiviCRM integration media news social justice social network Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:04:48 +0000 rdsmith@drupal.org 1475 at http://boston2008.drupalcon.org Free State Project http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/showcase/free-state-project <p>The Free State Project is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire. They are looking for &#8220;neighborly, productive, tolerant folks from all walks of life, of all ages, creeds, and colors who agree&#8221; to the political philosophy expressed in the Statement of Intent, that government exists at most to protect people&#8217;s rights, and should neither provide for people nor punish them for activities that interfere with no one else, and support the creation of a society in which the maximum role of civil government is the protection of citizens&#8217; rights to life, liberty, and property. </p> <p>In essence, this includes everyone who wants to cut the size and scope of government by about two-thirds or more. Put in a positive way, most FSP members support policies such as abolition of all income taxes, elimination of regulatory bureaucracies, repeal of most gun control laws, repeal of most drug prohibition laws, complete free trade, decentralization of government, and widescale privatization. People of this disposition may go by many names: &#8220;classical liberals&#8221; (not the same as modern liberals at all, but followers of Thomas Jefferson and similar thinkers), libertarians, paleoconservatives, constitutionalists, voluntarists, etc., etc. Most recently, this would include a majority of Ron Paul supporters.</p> <p>Drupal-wise, the site was migrated from mostly handbuilt static content maintained by a single webmaster for a few years, with over 1000 pages, and some java based backend signup code for the membership tracking and statistics. At this point, it&#8217;s all done with Drupal, including more complex signup options allowing different membership conditions depending on the member&#8217;s own preferences. Development is tracking using source control, and the IT team consists of about 5-6 volunteers.</p> http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/showcase/free-state-project#comments Activism advocacy libertarian membership New Hampshire politics social Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:37:02 +0000 sethcohn 1200 at http://boston2008.drupalcon.org JustCauseIt.com http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/showcase/justcauseitcom <p>JustCauseIt.com is the website for the upcoming print magazine, JUST CAUSE. The website provides editorial content from the magazine and expanded coverage on topics covered in the magazine including directories of organizations, calendars of related events and interactive blogging for individuals, organizations and corporate CSR. This vibrant social network allows many voices to be heard, and facilitates civic engagement on a local level – while still linking people across the country around common causes.</p> <p>The initial version of the site was built in approximately 3 months with a cross functional team including a Project Manager, Lead Engineer, Theme Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Information Architect, Visual Designer and Application Specialist. The client was closely involved in the process from its inception and continues to be as new features are deployed on an iterative basis.</p> <p>The site makes significant use of <a href="http://drupal.org/project/cck" target="new">CCK</a>, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/views" target="new">Views</a> and <a href="http://drupal.org/project/panels" target="new">Panels</a>, as well as <a href="http://drupal.org/project/og" target="new">Organic Groups</A> and a number of other contributed modules.</p> http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/showcase/justcauseitcom#comments Activism blog community community publishing magazine media social networking Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:07:13 +0000 Gregory Heller 1190 at http://boston2008.drupalcon.org V to the Tenth web site http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/showcase/v-tenth-web-site <p>The <a href="http://v10.vday.org">V10 site</a> was designed to encompass every aspect of the tenth anniversary year for V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Culminating in a large celebration in New Orleans, the site allows the visitor to experience a snapshot of what <a href="http://www.vday.org">VDay</a> has grown into.</p> <p>The site includes profiles of many of the movement&#8217;s activists, including Jane Fonda and Kerry Washington, an interactive timeline of V-Day&#8217;s history, a news room, and even a ride board to go to the celebration.</p> <p>The activist profiles required the integration of numerous clips into video galleries which in turn were integrated with text profiles on the various activists &#8212; this presented a daunting technical challenge with integrating video, flash, and the content management system.</p> <p>In spite of its scope, the V10 web site was developed in three months with a limited budget using Drupal, an open-source content management system.</p> <p><strong>About V-Day</strong><br /> V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.</p> <p>Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. In 2006, over 2700 V-Day benefit events took place by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.</p> <p>The site was developed by Studio:Module of Miami, FL<br /> <a href="http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/user/170">Claudio Luis Vera</a>, creative director<br /> Alisha Haydn Vera, designer<br /> Richard Roth, developer<br /> Felix Arteaga, developer</p> <p>The team at V-Day included<br /> Amy Squires, client lead and webmaster<br /> Susan Celia Swan, public relations<br /> Kate Fisher<br /> Madeleine Gavin<br /> and many others at VDay</p> <p>The ({}) branding for the V to the Tenth event was handled by TBWA Chiat/Day of Los Angeles</p> http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/showcase/v-tenth-web-site#comments Activism advocacy feminism international non-profit Studio Module violence against women Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:24:50 +0000 modulist 928 at http://boston2008.drupalcon.org