Our client, a prominent national nonprofit in the US, had built a custom Drupal platform for their 50-odd state-level affiliates. Now they needed to get all those affiliates onto the platform by bringing forward their existing web content.
As a relatively new standard, ActivityPub is not yet super well documented either for adopters or for developers. To help address that, in January 2020 we undertook a project to produce ActivityPub documentation guides.
Drutopia is a flexible and extensible Drupal distribution that can be used as the basis for building a customized platform for your network or organization.
As always, the best way to test out how things are working is to get busy and start using them. And so far the results of building with Drutopia are feeling pretty positive.
Change can often be a hard thing for groups—even progressive groups. Getting a staff team to willingly adopt new software or a new website can be challenging. Especially for staff who always feel a shortage of time in getting the important work done.
A current project we're working on at Chocolate Lily involves upgrading a Drupal 6 site to use the Drupal 7 Open Outreach distribution. It's the first time we've used a Drupal distribution for an existing Drupal site instead of a new one.
What is Drupal good for? Drupal is often used for creating complex organizational websites that might take weeks or months to develop from initial plans to launch. But what if you need a site, like, tomorrow?
Any way you do it, upgrading an organizational website to a new major version of Drupal - for example, from Drupal 5 or 6 to Drupal 7 - is a significant task.
