[Imc-drupal-dev] Knight Foundation Grant for Drupal IMC

[yan]

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Hi,

I'm yan, volunteering with IMC Germany and IMC Venezuela. Apart from
Indymedia I have been working with Drupal for about a year and a half.
Both IMCs I'm working with are using MIR right now.

IMC Venzuela might plan to switch to Drupal in the next year to obtain
features that MIR doesn't offer.

IMC Germany is in a kind of crisis which might result in a process
similar to Italy, i.e. a regionalization - but that's not sure. Anyhow
there are voices that call for a new CMS.

In both cases using Drupal is not very concrete but might be an option.
I personally like Drupal a lot and I'm glad there are people caring
about adjusting it to IMC needs.

I don't really have much time to offer and my programming skills are
limited, but I'm gonna be following the discussions here to see where I
can help out.

The grant idea sounds great to me and I'd also like to support those who
called for a more general approach then thinking about a DadaIMC->Drupal
transition. I think the other CMSs should be included.

Best,
yan


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Hola,

soy yan, trabajando con CMI Alemania y CMI Venezuela. Aparte de
Indymedia he trabajado con Drupal por más o menos un año y medio. Ambos
CMIs con las que trabajo utilizan MIR actualmente.

Puede ser que el CMI Venezuela planee cambiarse a Drupal durante el año
que que viene para obtener las ventajas de un sistema más nuevo.

El CMI Alemania se encuentra en un tipo de crisis y es posible que
resulte en un proceso como el de Italia, es decir, una descentralización
- pero eso no es seguro. De todos modos hay quienes llaman por un CMS nuevo.

En ambos casos utilizar Drupal no es muy concreto pero una opción. A mí
personalmente me gusta mucho Drupal y me alegra que haya gente que esté
trabajando en adaptar Drupal a las necesidades de los CMIs.

No tengo mucho tiempo que ofrecer y mis capacidades de programación son
limitadas. Sin embargo trataré de estar pendiente de los debates acá
para ver donde puedo contribuir.

La idea de la beca me parece estupenda y quisiera apoyar a los que
pidieron una aproximación más general que pensar en una transición
DadaIMC->Drupal. Creo que los otros CMSs deberían estar incluidos.

Saludos
yan


On 23.10.2008 16:03, Sofia JarrinT wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> In the past couple of days, we've created a loose coalition of
> Indymedia people to apply for a Knight Foundation grant
> (http://www.newschallenge.org/) to build an Indymedia Drupal prototype
> for ALL Indymedias (which I guess will include an Indymedia install
> profile)... The deadline is November 1st.
> 
> The idea developed originally from Belgium and Boston Imc and since
> then has snowballed to include UK Imc, Indybay, and possibly, Urbana
> Champaign and Bolivia Imc. Please let us know who else we need to invite...
> 
> The goals so far on how exactly to use the money or manage it, if we
> get it, are a bit up in the air. We originally thought that we could pay
> IMC Drupal developers so that they could spare the time to make this
> possible. Why get paid now? I guess it's a feeling of urgency that if we
> don't, this will take too long to get done, and Imcs continue to close
> down because of tech difficulties. Techs lack the time and the money
> should hopefully give them the space to allocate that time.
> 
> Another idea is to allocate $ to local Indymedias through the global
> fund, so they in turn could "hire" an Imc Drupal tech to help them
> implement the site...
> 
> I've just uploaded our First Draft to the Drupal wikki here... And
> will be uploading suggested changes very very soon:
> 
> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/ImcDrupalDev
> 
> We also need to work on a proposed Budget and Timeline.
> 
> Worries, concerns, uncomfortable ikkyness, excitement, ideas?
> 
> peace, Sofia Boston Imc


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