Please pass this along to those you think would be interested. - Steve
From: Steven Clift <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:24 PM Subject: Helping the Mailing List Module for Organic Groups on Drupal - Opportunity to Contribute $250+ Hey all, time to put that Drupal "e-mail matters" with online groups love to the test. Who is in with me to contribute $250 to this call - http://drupal.org/node/1035930#comment-5770276 Below is a note that I just sent to the Open Source for Neighbors online group that I host. I've re-oriented that "Neighborly" group recently to encourage anyone involved in any kind of open source neighbor to neighbor tech to use it. Context: http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/2PO8e6aBBqEOBu6ObDT3UQ So who is with me? ... Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 From: Steven Clift <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:07 PM Subject: Helping the Mailing List Module for Organic Groups on Drupal - Opportunity to Contribute $250+ To: [email protected] OG Maillist is one of those Drupal modules I've been following: http://drupal.org/project/og_mailinglist It would be central to crucial full e-mail participation on any open source electronic block club efforts on Drupal. There was a call to contribute today to updating the module for Drupal 7 and I encourage others to join me by putting up $250 to help. Who is in with me? Steven Clift E-Democracy.org See: http://drupal.org/node/1035930#comment-5770276 #18 Posted by davidspencer on March 23, 2012 at 1:51pm I have been talking with one other individual about helping to fund Kyle's work to convert this module to D7. It seems like there are probably a number of folks out there that want or need to see an upgraded version of this module, so I wanted to throw out the idea of putting together a Chip-In or something to that effect to get this knocked out. Feel free to contact me offline if you prefer, but it would be nice to see some solid commitments, even if they're small, from some of the people or organizations that have benefited or stand to benefit from this excellent piece of work that Kyle has put together. Sorry if this is out of line in any way...I don't mean to step on any toes, but I need to see this work completed and I'm willing to contribute a good portion of the costs, so I'm hoping there are others in the same boat. Thanks. Login or register to post comments #19 Posted by netclift on March 23, 2012 at 2:57pm I'd be interested in a new features overview. My non-profit is interested in experimenting with Drupal (and other open source platforms) for very local online groups. We call them "electronic block clubs." I'll chip in $250 today if five other groups step up in the next 48 hours. We are tracking tools like VOIPDrupal, CityGroups (Drupal-based directory), and others. We have a non-Drupal GPL platform - http://groupserver.org - that we use now for very public neighborhood forums. See: http://e-democracy.org We have no plans to stop using it, but we have an opportunity to test and compare other tech in the field with small private online groups for 100 households on down (or for an apartment complex). Things that matter to us: 1. Full e-mail participation 2. Ability to require real names field with registration 3. Ability to moderate new users automatically, unmoderate selectively, or unmoderate universally 4. Ability to auto-insert poster name, selected profile info, and a link to their web profile into e-mail messages 5. Ability to limit the frequency of posting by a user by time to prevent domination and keep e-mail a viable option for more participants 6. Ability to create fully operational accounts with e-mail participation and group memberships select from the paper sign-up sheets we use - see http://e-democracy.org/inclusion I will gladly donate $250 toward the cause if five others step forward to match me with no strings attached. Those are just some of my goals for online group technology that we've found crucial in our work. On that note, I host a ~100 member online group with developers from many platforms interested in using open source tools to connect neighbors. One of my goals is to make local connecting work all over the place. Join us: http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/neighborly You'll note that I identified Drupal as a potential platform for our future BeNeighbors.org directory. It is not a done deal, but seeing momentum for multi-channel unified online group experiences in Drupal would be huge. So who will join our pledge? Steven Clift E-Democracy.org P.S. If you've played around with integrating DrupalVOIP, Organic Groups, and this add-on, let me know. My dream block club tool would allow people to have two priorities for delivery - normal and urgent. So if someone on the block has just collapsed in their yard, right after calling 911, someone could text, e-mail, or call-in and send a message immediately to the block asking for someone who knosw cpr to come to X location and it would go out to people how they prefer to receive it, while less urgent neighborly communication could be received normally. (Which may be an automatica call with text to speech for an elderly neighbor without Internet sharing some messages via IVR. 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