Building a Community Site with Drupal Sean Dague http://dague.net @sdague

Poughkeepsie Farm Project

Why am I here? Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:17:37 -0500 From: Sean Dague <sean@dague.net> To: web@farmproject.org Subject: getting involved with the farm project web presence? I was curious about getting involved helping out with the farm project web presence. I was specifically thinking it would be really interesting to have a online forum to let members easily cross communicate with each other, as well as share recipes and the like. I'm happy to work on creating such things, so wanted to reach out to figure out who I should get together with on this. Is there some sort of tech committee for the PFP that I could be involved with? Please get back to me when you get a chance, Thanks, -Sean

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:17:37 -0500 From: Sean Dague <sean@dague.net> To: web@farmproject.org

User forums New look No heavy maintenance Better workflow for updates

Non-Profits Can't Afford Technical Debt

Drupal Written in PHP One of top 3 open source CMSes Core is very minimalist, all function in Modules Very extensible / themeable Rich users / permissions system Input sanitation Vibrant open source community Supported by most $4 hosting

Installing Drupal Make a MySQL db and user Grab source from http://drupal.org Stick in the root of virtual host http://virtualhost/install.php

What the hell does Content Management System mean anyway?

Couldn't we just do that with Mediawiki?

What the hell does Content Management System mean anyway?

Content / Nodes Page Meeting Location Title Body Title Body Presenter Date Notes Presentation Location Title Body Address Map

Content Types Farm Project Newsletter Food Matters Webteam Page Produce MHAA Indoor Meeting Location Star Party Event Boiler Plate MHVLUG Meeting Location Event Conference Organization

First year of work

MHVLUG website Focus on Events Red Theme Automatic roll over for Next Meeting Automatic meeting archive iCal for phone support

MHAA Website Focus on Events Dark Theme (like night) Very clear if Star Party is cancelled/postponed Surface special events, meetings to front page

Drush - Drupal Shell drush dl - download a module from drupal.org drush en - enable a downloaded module drush dis - disable a downloaded module drush up - update all enabled modules drush pm-list - list modules drush status - provide status report of the site

Modules drush dl / drush en all of these admin_menu devel cck views pathauto globalredirect linkchecker mollom / akismet / captcha

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