[WebPub] drupal

[Ed Carlevale]

On Jun 23, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Lisa C Mayer wrote:

> I think there's benefit to using WebPub for Drupal questions.

Lisa,  I agree with this and think this is the way to go.

> There's been a few attempts to start an MIT usergroup, there used to  
> be developer.mit.edu and a Boston MIT Drupal group, and they didn't  
> take off.

Not sure about this. The Boston Drupal Group meets the first Tuesday  
of every month in E51, 6:30-9pm, and is led by Drupal Core Developer  
Moshe Weitzman, and is hosted by Sustainability at MIT. They've been at  
MIT for the past year, and at Harvard before that.

I started the MIT Drupal Group. I've been at MIT for 20 years, have  
volunteered as webmaster for the MIT Energy Club for the past 5 years,  
and for Sustainability at MIT for the past two years. I am the only non- 
student on the executive board of either group. Drupal is exploding in  
popularity right now -- now Verizon is hiring Drupal developers -- but  
it is explicitly in relationship to Drupal and Sustainability that I  
am trying to move things forward at MIT. I love Drupal, and would be  
happy to do anything with it. And I think the community of Drupalistas  
is extraordinary. But Drupal has unique functionality to offer when it  
comes to communicating the issues of sustainability, and over the next  
year that power will become more and more apparent.

The MIT Drupal Group site is back up, and web pub members should join  
it so that they can see the behind-the-scenes administration -- that,  
in my opinion, is all that makes Drupal unique. I have no idea how the  
site will or should evolve.  But this is a very unique moment in time  
-- in politics, in media, and in web development. I'm certain Drupal  
will play a major role in those changes, and seeing those changes  
evolve in real time seems a great opportunity for all of us. But I am  
equally certain Drupal has a revolutionary power to contribute to real  
change in communication, and that's what I'm trying to move forward in  
sustainability at MIT.

Ed



>
> We have a very diverse group, with members stretching all over the  
> US and UK in both industry and education.  Since anyone who is a  
> member can post to the list, it's already set up as a support  
> system. Plus then we could keep all those Drupal resources on the  
> webpub.mit.edu blog.
>
> My two cents....
> Lisa
>
>

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