[WebPub] drupal

[Peggy Carney]

Please take me off this mailing list.

Thanks

Peggy Carney

 

From: webpub-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:webpub-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed
Carlevale
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:19 AM
To: Lisa C Mayer
Cc: webpub at MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [WebPub] drupal

 

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
<http://groups.drupal.org/boston>  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 <http://drupalgroup.mit.edu/>  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 <http://drupalgroup.mit.edu>  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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