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Why management needs to understand the Drupal community to fully benefit from Drupal

Aug 17, 2011

The Drupal.org slogan says it all: Come for the software, stay for the community.

"This is the typical process by which people learn that Drupal's ultimate strength is its community, rather than its code base. Websites are like human beings - any two websites can be very different and do very different things, but under the hood they are 99% the same. Any website (large or small) has very small unique code base, compared to the enormous software stack that it sits upon. Other components in the stack are typically:

Drupal 7 relaunch of Energy.gov

Aug 11, 2011

Project Highlights
"Projected to save up to $10 million per year over the old system, the new site is feature-rich, readily extensible, and optimized to meet the substantial performance requirements of a major federal agency site. In addition to providing an enhanced user experience for both visitors and Energy.gov staff, the project brought to life innovations in data visualization and Drupal development.

Development highlights of the relaunched Energy.gov include:

Open-data-site compares 65 different indicators of schools

Jun 28, 2011

"The Federal Education Budget Project at New America Foundation just relaunched its open data site EdBudgetProject.org, adding new mapping and comparison tools for more than 65 indicators about the 14,000 public school districts in the United States and an entire new section monitoring 7,500 higher education institutions. The site features fast auto-complete search that allows you to quickly find any school district or higher eduction institution right from the homepage.

Websites That Enable You to Make a Difference

Jun 28, 2011

"Change.org - This is an online activism platform that has enacted change over the world. They recently got an Argentine journalist fired and got hacked for a petition against the Chinese government. Non-profits can register their organizations and then post their initiatives, updates and petitions for their followers to see. Furthermore, an individual can create a petition for a cause they believe in, and then use social media to get their network behind it. Some petitions have garnered upwards of 150,000 backers.

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