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January 31, 2012

Drupal site in a day

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What is Drupal good for? Drupal is often used for creating complex organizational websites that might take weeks or months to develop from initial plans to launch. But what if you need a site, like, tomorrow?

June 11, 2010

Upgrading to a new version of Drupal: Questions to ask before you begin

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Any way you do it, upgrading an organizational website to a new major version of Drupal - for example, from Drupal 5 or 6 to Drupal 7 - is a significant task.

June 10, 2010

Our approach to site development

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Get as much as you can out of existing solutions. Often, this means adjusting expectations or adopting different solutions for the same problems.

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Rosemary Mann

Rosemary Mann brings to Chocolate Lily twenty years of experience working in the nonprofit sector as executive director, board member, and community volunteer.  It is through this lens of collaboration, group process and engagement that Rosemary approaches this role of managing the interplay between web technologies and progressive action for social change.

May 30, 2012

What's new with Open Outreach?

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What’s new with the Open Outreach distribution for nonprofits? Lots! There are now over 250 sites using Open Outreach. After working on getting this distribution up and running for so long, it's gratifying to see that it's starting to build some momentum.

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Nedjo Rogers

Nedjo is a recognized leader in bringing the power of the Drupal web platform to NGOs and nonprofits.

April 12, 2013

A multiplicity of Open Outreach sites

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As the developers and maintainers of the Open Outreach distribution for nonprofits, we’re curious to see who is using the distribution to further their website building efforts.

September 26, 2013

Welcome Backdrop! and the road not taken

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What if Drupal 8 had taken a different path? What if profitability and expanding market share and wooing enterprise clients weren't the driving aims? What if, instead, we'd focused on stability, usability, and accessibility for small and medium sized organizations.

October 4, 2013

What can Joomla learn from Drupal about distributions?

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Browsing joomla.org, I recently noticed the following in the Joomla roadmap: "The Joomla! CMS (content management system) seeks to create a variety of distributions of the CMS to address a variety of common niche markets." Good idea!

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CRD Community Green Map

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The CRD Community Green Map is built around the Debut Location feature, extended to incorporate a wide array of imagery as well as the striking Green Map icons, some of which have been produced to reflect the ecological uniqueness of Southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.