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[Adam Sheesley <myddrn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Addressing:
>2). Integrate with the design team<http://forum.theosdf.org/index.php?board=8.0>:
What's the best way to get a design into a drupal template? Someone should
probably talk to the art department and start to lay the groundwork for a
cooperative >existence (please don't just walk in and demand a design,
remember we need to work within their processes too =). I don't know what
Drupal templates look like, so someone better qualified should >broach this
topic with the designers. Maybe there's a designer out there who has worked
on Drupal templates before?

I don't know a terrible amount about how well this would actually work to
learn how to theme Drupal (as I've never had to mess with creating a theme)
but I'd suggest that some motivated individual from the design team get
Drupal running on their local machine and install the Zen
theme<http://drupal.org/project/zen> and
have a party.  If anyone needs help setting up a stock Drupal install give a
shout and I can help.  I have to run now, but I suppose it would be good to
copy this to the design mailing list too

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Andrew Ettinger <sillydeveloper@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Good call Toast! (And happy 2011 everyone!)
>
> Sam, that was an awesome response. I love your open source insights. =)
>
> I noticed a few other volunteers offering their services, but they didn't
> know where they could help.
>
>
> We're a diverse group, so based on who is interested in what, we should
> probably steer people to what we are currently toying with:
>
> 1). Drupal, CiviCRM (and related plugin development)
> 2). Something like CAPP<http://www.theundermine.info/wiki/index.php/Ideas_for_computer-aided_political_participation>
>  (discuss here! <http://forum.theosdf.org/index.php?topic=25.0>)
> 3). Open data initiative advocacy<http://forum.theosdf.org/index.php?topic=6.0>
>
> 4). ??? Something new people are interested in working on that other people
> want to work on ???
>
> I think there's a lot of different fronts we can attack this thing, and
> people should scratch their political and development itch as long as it's
> within the core mission of the OSDF. That being said...
>
> Does the Drupal series in LP (https://launchpad.net/osdf/drupal, see the
> code at https://code.launchpad.net/~sillydeveloper/osdf/trunk) accurately
> reflect the current state of our Drupal setup?
>
>
> Someone, or some people, are going to have to take point on the Drupal
> process, and that people just isn't going to be me. I don't know Drupal well
> enough to even know the steps involved. I can certainly help, but someone
> that knows what they are talking about needs to take over that series and
> blueprints on Launchpad.
>
> I think there's a couple things on the drupal front outside of LaunchPad
> that we can be proactive about:
>
> 1). I assume part of the Drupal configuration is needing to know how the
> writing team wants to operate (who edits what? who has permissions? how do
> you propose a story?). Maybe we should ask them on the forum and get the
> conversation started <http://forum.theosdf.org/index.php?board=26.0>. This
> will allow us to give access to the content folks so they can fill out the
> site while we...
>
> 2). Integrate with the design team<http://forum.theosdf.org/index.php?board=8.0>:
> What's the best way to get a design into a drupal template? Someone should
> probably talk to the art department and start to lay the groundwork for a
> cooperative existence (please don't just walk in and demand a design,
> remember we need to work within their processes too =). I don't know what
> Drupal templates look like, so someone better qualified should broach this
> topic with the designers. Maybe there's a designer out there who has worked
> on Drupal templates before?
>
> 3). How do the people who have done grassroots organization want to
> organize in CiviCRM? Have they used it before / have suggestions? Probably
> should ask them <http://forum.theosdf.org/index.php?board=24.0> too.
>
> I know it doesn't look like there's people on the forums... but there are.
> I think people are waiting for someone to *do* something: Every time I
> post someone new responds. We're doing stuff, so we should start reaching
> out and helping these groups form up like a proper open source style
> organization (i.e., somewhat controlled chaos).
>
> [/drinks coffee]
>
> ~ Andrew
>
> P.S. Caveat: I have no idea if I was linking to the correct forums above,
> so use your best judgement. =)
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Toast McFarland wrote:
>
> Happy new year everyone.
>
> Can anyone help clean up https://code.launchpad.net/osdf? I noticed a few
> other volunteers offering their services, but they didn't know where they
> could help.
>
> Additionally, does the Drupal series in LP (
> https://launchpad.net/osdf/drupal, see the code at
> https://code.launchpad.net/~sillydeveloper/osdf/trunk) accurately reflect
> the current state of our Drupal setup?
>
> Also, I would like to propose separate milestones for Drupal functioning as
> a CMS to replace the current Wordpress setup, and another for the end result
> of Drupal+CiviCRM.
>
> Questions? Comments? Feeback? Go go go! [/pour_coffee]
>
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