Actually, their main site is http://www.deandefense.org It is a MovableType Blog. I've been including their entries, via syndication in my Drupal http://ahynes1.homeip.net:8180/drupal for quite a while. At present, it seems to work quite well for them. They've been getting some national press coverage for the job they've been doing.
They may need to upgrade at some point in the event that they need to regionalize, but much of their focus has been on the national media. They also currently support a mailing list and an EZboard based forum. I'm not sure I see what benefits they would get from moving to Drupal that would make up for the amount of work it would take to move. Am I missing something? Aldon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of zachary rosen Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [developers] Dean Defence Forces - app (fwd) So there is this web community set up to track Dean related news stories accross the country and "assist" them in writing critiques / letters to the editors if they disagree with the stories. They do a very good job and have many active participants: dean2004.blogspot.com. Josh and I have been emailing them a bit to see if they would be interested in running DeanSpace Drupal. Josh did a very good job describing what our tools would do, and they responded with a "what does that have to do with us?". I sent them back a paragraph promising that our tools could do exactly what they needed them to do: allow local communitities to track local news about dean, allow state communities to track state news, and give them better tools to build a communitity around national news. I basically proposed we would build them an app inside the Drupal communities dedicated to tracking local dean-news. But is this really required? A news critique is just a blog post to them, so all we would have to do is flag it as a "news-defence" item rather than a "blog-news" item, and then display it however we want in Drupal (in a block / intertwined with blog posts / whatever we want). And metadean could differentiate easily enough so we could have "news-defence" bubbling capabalities very easily. This reasonable? -Zack
