Our software is perfect for them. Their upgrade to movable type has helped, but they are still in the same jam as the main DFA site - they are swamped by their users. DFA / DDF aren't just blogs at this point, they are web communities. Unfortunatly they are both still stuck with blog software which does a barely-adequate job of providing for the needs of the users.
If all the web communities sites we set up have a DDF page in them then the DDF community can become vastly more powerful on a local and a national scale. Users will have a local place to participate doing DDF work (offloading administrative and community building to local sites) and the DDF main site (top DDF node) will be able to draw from a much larger and organized particpatory base to do their job all the better. -Zack On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Aldon Hynes wrote: > 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 > >
