Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-13 Thread Sam
I came to IxDA through a link in a recent post by Dries Buyaert, one of a few people I follow on twitter. I really Iike the design of your site so I joined the community immediately. Drupal as a backend helps designers focus on issues at the system level without worrying too much about underlying

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-13 Thread Santiago Bustelo
Great news! Are there any planned features for local groups support? -- Santiago Bustelo // icograma Buenos Aires, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39726

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-12 Thread Leisa Reichelt
just wanted to confirm that UX/Usability are a priority for the next release of Drupal (Drupal7) - and that I'm working (with Mark Boulton) on a project to make it a lot more friendly to non-developers. I was very happy/excited to hear that the IxDA have chosen Drupal :) As others have mentioned,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-11 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
Hi IxDA members, I have posted the IxDA Conan release plan document on our Board Blog. This explains our decision-making some more, and also presents the design targets for the first releases of our new infrastructure. See http://board.ixda.org/node/12 Please do visit the blog, and send in your

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-11 Thread Adrian Simmons
I've been using Drupal for 5 years but only joined IxDA a few weeks ago (hoping to learn a bit more about interaction design). I was delighted but slightly surprised by this announcement because Drupal has such a bad reputation for usability* - but as Dave and Nasir said, Drupal is a platform and

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-11 Thread Jackson Fox
I'm actually glad to hear you chose Drupal, as I just made the same decision for our local UPA chapter's new website. It's nice to see I wasn't crazy :) @Adrian - As a complete Drupal novice, I've found it to be powerful, poorly organized, and overly complicated. The power is what made me

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-10 Thread Den Serras
I went through a lot of testing to choose Joomla, and of course I've second-guessed myself many times, so I'd love to hear the reasoning. Currently the IXDA site doesn't have a lot of functionality, and it seems that Drupal is very good at doing one thing really well when you have good

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-10 Thread dave malouf
Den, we are not re-designing the existing site. We are tearing up the platform from the ground up. We needed a platform and Drupal is that with one of the largest developer communities out there today. I'm not sure where you get the doing one thing part of Drupal. It is a highly extensible

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-10 Thread Nasir Barday
We've done an extensive analysis of the major community-based environments out there, and Drupal was our clear top choice. As Dave said, Drupal has a strong developer community and out of the box covers a majority of our requirements. Additionally, we can fill in the gaps with custom modules and a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-10 Thread dave malouf
Someone offline felt I was being rough. Sorry, not my intention to be rough, so I apologize. Thanx Nasir for posting your response. --d ave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39726

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Otwell
There's an IxDA Board blog? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39726 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-10 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
Um, yeah, there's an IxDA Board blog since a couple months ago. Didn't you notice the little Board Blog link on the About page? ;) So, right. We need entirely new infrastructure upon which to build IxDA.org. :) It has been a long time coming now, and we're excited to be joining the 21st century.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Otwell
There's an About page? :-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39726 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-09 Thread Elizabeth Bacon
Hi folks, I want to share the news that our IxDA infrastructure initiative has selected Drupal to provide the technical platform for our website redesign project. For more on this decision, please see: http://board.ixda.org/node/11 Cheers, Liz

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxDA selects Drupal

2009-03-09 Thread Alina
I used both Drupal and Joomla and decided that Joomla is ten folds better. I'm just curious why Drupal over Joomla? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39726