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What is Drupal good for? Drupal is often used for creating complex organizational websites that might take weeks or months to develop from initial plans to launch. But what if you need a site, like,...
View ArticleWhat's new with Open Outreach?
What’s new with the Open Outreach distribution for nonprofits? Lots!There are now over 250 sites using Open Outreach. After working on getting this distribution up and running for so long, it's...
View ArticleDrupal Apps: the answer to plug and play Drupal site building?
The Apps approach to making Drupal site building easy is gaining support. But there's a long way to go before Apps can provide sites seamlessly integrating components from multiple providers.Apps: the...
View ArticleOpen Outreach: how to help make it happen
"We think Open Outreach on Pantheon is an incredibly powerful tool for site builders and web-savvy nonprofit staff and a great place to begin for those new to Drupal." - Andrew Ward, East Bay...
View ArticleWhy you should consider running for the Drupal Association board
Chances are you're reading this because you're passionate enough about Drupal to read the Drupal Planet feed with your morning coffee or afternoon doughnut. If so, you or someone you know might be just...
View ArticleIntroducing the new Open Outreach CRM based on RedHen
The latest release of the Open Outreach distribution for nonprofits comes with built-in CRM (contact relationship management) support, based on the new RedHen CRM.CRM is fancy shorthand for contact...
View Article"There's a distribution for that"
If you're a group having a Drupal website built for you, one of the first questions you should ask is, "What distribution will you base the site on?"And conversely if you're a Drupal site builder with...
View Article"Drupal distros sound great, but...."
Despite the great Drupal distributions available, most Drupal site builders have yet to start using them regularly for building client sites.There seems to be a bunch of perceptions out there about the...
View ArticleA multiplicity of Open Outreach sites
As the developers and maintainers of the Open Outreach distribution for nonprofits, we’re curious to see who is using the distribution to further their website building efforts. The results are a...
View ArticleWelcome Backdrop! and the road not taken
Back in 2008, when Drupal 6 was released and version 7 was only a faint glow on the horizon, the Drupal project stood at a crossroads with multiple possible futures. One of those futures was the one...
View ArticleWhat can Joomla learn from Drupal about distributions?
Browsing joomla.org, I recently noticed the following in the Joomla roadmap: The Joomla! CMS [content management system] seeks to create a variety of distributions of the CMS to address a variety of...
View ArticleOpen Outreach welcomes new partner Praxis Labs
A managed hosting service will be the first fruit of a new partnership between Chocolate Lily Web Projects and the Montreal-based cooperative Praxis Labs aimed at strengthening and expanding the...
View ArticleDrupal 8 configuration management: what about small sites and distributions?
In a recent blog post, Drupal 8 co-maintainer Alex Pott highlighted a seismic shift in Drupal that's mostly slipped under the radar. In Drupal 8, he wrote, "sites own their configuration, not...
View ArticleDrupal 8 and distributions part 2: problems and prospects
This is part two of a series on configuration management challenges in Durpal 8. Part 1 looked at challenges for small sites and distriubtions.What is the state of support for distributions in Drupal 8?
View ArticleCustomizing the Open Outreach distribution: A case study
As part of a long-term collaborative partnership with the University of Victoria's Geography Department, Chocolate Lily has been working on producing a customized version of Open Outreach suitable for...
View ArticleAnnouncing Drutopia
Drutopia is an initiative within the Drupal project that prioritizes putting the best online tools into the hands of grassroots groups. By embracing the liberatory possibilities of free software and...
View ArticleThe Coming Drupal Fork
Conditions are ripe for a fork of the Drupal project. But what kind of fork?In recent days there's been a bunch of insightful and thought provoking reflection within the Drupal community (as well as a...
View ArticleFrom Critique to Action: Transforming Drupal Through User-Centered Economics
As controversy swirls around the Drupal project leadership, community members are asking searching questions about the role of corporate influence in the project.It's a good time to take a step back...
View ArticleManaging Shared Configuration Part 1: Configuration Providers
At the Drutopia project, one of our big focuses has been improvements to configuration management in Drupal 8. In this series, I'll be covering our work to date along with related efforts and...
View ArticleManaging Shared Configuration Part 2: Configuration Snapshots
This is the second installment in a series presenting configuration management work that comes out of the Drutopia initiative.In part 1 of this series, Configuration Providers, we introduced the...
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