Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community Websites

[Hummel, Tracey S - (thummel) (thummel]

Shelia,

Sorry for the confusion. The public portion of the Sonora Cohousing website is 
done using Drupal: http://sonoracoho.com. Sean is referring to the internal 
portion that is not visible outside the community. I believe it is entirely 
hand-coded.

The Drupal community is world-wide and goes by a philosophy similar to 
cohousing.... inclusion, cooperation, and working collaboratively for the 
benefit of the entire community. The Drupal community is amazing.
What is really great about Drupal is that you can create a website (without 
content) and then clone it within minutes to get another fully-functional 
website up and running really, really quickly... just add content & users. The 
'clones' are fully customizable & expandable and the administration of the site 
can be turned over to a community member who does not need a ton of technical 
skill to maintain the site. This is what I do for the Community-website 
project:  http://community-website.org.

I'm happy to share with other Drupal developers or would love for more people 
to work with me on this project.  I've gotten input and support from several 
communities but it is always helpful to have more.

Thanks,
Tracey

-----Original Message-----
From: Sheila Hoffman [mailto:sheila [at] hoffmangraphics.com]

Sean, your offer is most generous.  Those are extensive features and the
Sonora site looks wonderful. I'm a graphic designer myself and while I work
a lot in WordPress someone else in our forming group is a Drupal expert. So
our site is setup with similar features to yours, using the Drupal
OpenSource platform (I designed the logo and site). We're a newly forming
group: www.capitolhillurbancohousing.org.

I looked at your link and read about Mosaic. I am unfamiliar with it. For me
it raises a bit of a concern as it looks proprietary (meaning custom and
unique to you). Please correct me if I'm wrong. I just feel that it's best
for communities to work with tools that are in wide use so that they do not
become dependant on any sole provider. I know that both WordPress and Drupal
are such trusted platforms that in very wide use.

To that end I offer another resource for communities in need. I've come
across this site in my web travels. They offer very low cost sites based in
Drupal. Here's their link: http://community-website.org/ I am in no way
affiliated.
Happy New Year.

Sheila
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Tracey Hummel
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