Drupal

As mentioned in the previous post, the recently announced Blackbaud acquisition of Convio - two giants in the closed-source world that provide web services primarily for non-profits - caused a stir not only in the non-profit world but also in the Free and Open Source software world.  Allen Gunn of Aspir

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With this week's announcement that Blackbaud will buy Convio there have been many questions whether this will be good or bad for the nonprofit organizations both companies count as their clients. We have often had clients and other nonprofit organizations we come into contact with us ask about the open source tools we specialize in, and how they compare with the proprietary tools or Software as a Service offerings that they've heard about. One very clear difference is that the open source tools don't get bought up and consolidated.

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The video below is a demonstration of our recent work using two open source software platforms to build native iPhone and Android apps for the InterAction Forum conference. 

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A community specifically for Drupal developers and users at universities is in the formative stages, see: Forming a Drupal in Higher Edu Consortium; (groups.drupal.org).

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Do it for the puppies.

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Recently, I blogged about Drupal's plans to integrate HTML5 into its next release. However, version 8 of Drupal is at least a year away. What's a Drupal dev to do, if they want to start using HTML5 right now? There are a variety of tools and techniques. Let's look at them.

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HTML5. If you haven't heard of it, perhaps you've seen the 50's superhero inspired logo (left) which is popping up all over?

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One of the things I enjoy about working with CivicActions is the commitment to quality, and one of the best tools in our quality assurance arsenal is the Dev QA Live release process for staging and deploying Drupal sites. We don't just build you a website, we build it and test it and QA it over and over until we know we got it right. And it's not done until it's "done".

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Leo Burd from the MIT Center for Future Civic Media and Owen Barton from CivicActions ran a webcast last week with an introduction and update on VoIP Drupal, which is a framework for allowing your Drupal site to make and receive phone calls and interact with the site by phone.

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