The EFF ( Electronic Frontier Foundation ) is now using Drupal

I hadn't seen a post about it, so I wanted to pass along the info that the EFF( Electronic Frontier Foundation ) has just upgraded their site to use Drupal. In case you are unfamiliar with them, some details from their about page:

From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar — and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.

Blending the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists, EFF achieves significant victories on behalf of consumers and the general public. EFF fights for freedom primarily in the courts, bringing and defending lawsuits even when that means taking on the US government or large corporations. By mobilizing more than 50,000 concerned citizens through our Action Center, EFF beats back bad legislation. In addition to advising policymakers, EFF educates the press and public.

EFF is a donor-funded nonprofit and depends on your support to continue successfully defending your digital rights. Litigation is particularly expensive; because two-thirds of our budget comes from individual donors, every contribution is critical to helping EFF fight —and win—more cases.

And here is their post on the website overhaul:

EFF Website Overhaul!: As you may have noticed if you're hitting the site directly, rather than our RSS feeds, we've just launched a full site redesign and restructure. It's been a long time coming, and we're way excited about it!

We’ve made some design and navigational changes that should be immediately apparent. But by far the biggest change for eff.org is that we're now running on the open source content management system Drupal. Migrating into a CMS was a hefty challenge, as our website is almost as old as our organization, and has thousands of pages and files. But we did it, and the end result of this herculean data massage should be that we're able to get more information up on our website, and to you, more quickly.

This project was a major undertaking for EFF, and we have some much-deserved Thank Yous to hand out:

• Big thanks to all the people who work on Drupal, it's a great open source CMS and provides an excellent content management solution to many nonprofit & grassroots websites. And extra special thanks to the helpers on Drupal IRC, who handled quite a few eff.org related questions.
• About halfway through the migration project, we were graced with the tech chops of Tim Jones, who ended up writing a bunch of custom Drupal modules for us and generally making this whole thing come together. Without his extensive help there's no way we would have gotten the site out the door, and he proved so invaluable that as of November he’ll be at EFF fulltime.
• Huge thanks to EFF ally Matt Earp, who handled a lot of the messier parts of content migration over the summer.
• Finally, thanks to EFF staff and associates, who helped along the way by answering questions, sifting through piles of site content, offering input, and being incredibly patient.

One of our main goals with this site migration was to make eff.org more usable and organized, and we hope you like it! We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions. Email us about the new site by emailing newsite@eff.org.

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