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By zacker on
Greetings,
We at, hack4dean.org, a working group of professional software engineers, graphical artists, students, and other miscellaneous innovators are in the beginnings of a monumental web development project. Our goal is to create and support extensible web community tools for all interest-based and regional groups who are participating in the Howard Dean’s grassroots campaign. The first set of tools we will release will be built on Drupal.
Here is a Wired article about the project.
We are attempting to build a network of deployed Drupal web communities each serving different geographic or affinity based groups of campaigners. The technical hurdles in creating this network are no doubt large, but by no means monumental. Further details about the networks design are on this page.
When this network is functional its impact and implications on our world could be astounding. We are attempting to make history. If you are interested in helping us, please register to join the working group hack4dean, or if you have any questions please email me at: zrosen@uiuc.edu.
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design goals
after reading your design ideas, looks like you'll need to work with breyten's import module since it will store rss feeds as nodes and allow promotion of specific feeds to the front page.
Great news
Drupal+Dean form an elegant synergy. Like Drupal, Dean plays it honest and strong against better known competitors. I have already volunteered my skills for this venture.
We need coders, themers, hosters, copy writers, publicizers, and everything else under the sun. Please join us.
Link to Design page is bad
Small problem.
Your sentence "Further details about the networks design are on this page" links to http://www.americansfordean.org/index2.php?option=desig
Which doesn't exist.
Good luck!
Stew Stryker - Upper Valley for Dean
Politics Here?
This is good news, and it is nice to see Drupal utilized in 'common circles.' Political comments endorsing Dean, though, are probably best left outside of Drupal.org, right?
Reading the comments for this story tempt me to advocate for my candidate and explain how Dean is not the best candidate, however, that is not the purpose of this site.
Don't forget about the other
Don't forget about the other Presidental site on Drupal
Bushblog.us.
Drupal's CMS is ideal for a gathering of ideas and input that a political campaign would bring to the table.
Submit as a New Story
if Howard Dean gets a whole article for use of Drupal, why not other candidates?
Announcements welcomed but ...
Feel free to submit such announcement but bear in mind Zack's post got promoted thanks to quality of the writing, the technical information, the innovative character of the project and - last but not least - because it is about Drupal development. It is much more than a plug or a "yet another Drupal site"-style announcement.
Sounds like an opportunity
Now that more than one candidate has a drupal site, we should think of ways to really leverage the medium. I'm thinking a good goal would be to facilitate citizen research using drupal.
How about starting with an agreed upon taxonomy for common issues, and tightening the dialog with RSS, trackback and 'blog this' type functionality. Tack on the site-cloud and single sign-on features and we might have something new and powerful in the political arena.
Joe Lombardo | joe@familytimes.com | My Blog
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In retrospect -- It's
In retrospect -- It's really awesome that any candidate for US political office used drupal. I know that this may piss off drupal users, but to have a mention of drupal helping anyone out is way better than a specific drupal site endorsing a political agenda. I think drupal should be non-partisan but there could be much more support for drupal if people knew that drupal was at the heart of free speech, regardless of whom was using it.
this link to deanspace says
this link to deanspace says "DeanSpace is running outdated software and needs to be upgraded. It will be back up relatively shortly. If you have questions please email zack" ??