Identity Open Space event in Vancouver

Kaliya Hamlin, a friend of mine from various converenences, is involved in the planning/convening of an open space conference in Vancouver about single sign on, identity related issues. What do I mean by that? Well, I think Kaliya can explain it better. I agree with her that it is important for folks from our sector (social source, progressive technology) to be in on these discussions. The identity layer will really propell our experience of the internet to the next...

Drupal Camp Seattle June 28, 29

CivicActions is co-sponsoring Drupal Camp Seattle with Vancouver Drupal ASP Bryght and Rain City Studios (also based in Vancouver) on Wednesday and Thursday, June 28, 29 at the Richard Hugo House. I’ll be facilitating and co-facilitating sessions for non-coders on e-campaigning with Drupal, boot-strapping your site with Drupal as a non-coder, CiviCRM for power users and a quick tour of the views module. If you’re in the Seattle area, and interested in learning about Drupal, register and drop...

Wardriving with Arthur

Arthur Foelsche and I take a few minutes away from the rest of the CivicActions June Off Site in Geyserville, CA to troubleshoot and fix a mail issue for a client. Geyserville is a rather small town, no internet cafes. So we made due, after about 10 minutes of wardriving, we found an open wireless signal near the railroad...

More Drupal Mapping from Development Seed!

Had a quick Skype with Eric Gundersen of Development Seed. Eric and I catch up every week or three to talk about developments in drupal development. Particularly the modules that our shops are working on (and modules that other shops are workign on too!). We’ll be having a call sometime soon to talk about their seed campaign module, our mapthing module, and forward and send. Basically this is my dream recipe that does viral e-activism with maps! Eric pointed me to this blog post about some google based geotagging work they are doing. “[They are] working on building a new geocoder module for Drupal to make syndication of content to maps and Google Earth easier.” Looks like Dan‘s MapThing module might be able to play nice with this. Or maybe this provides the functionality that Dan’s does WRT to mapping things other than users? I’ll let them sort it...

MeCommerce from GoodStorm

GoodStorm, the Drupal Powered on demand T-Shirt printing service, is launching a new service called “MeCommerce” (see article here which will allow bloggers (and other websites) to include an ecommerce widget which will: allow bloggers to insert product listings in a javascript and iframe box on their sites and keep 50% of the retail mark-up for themselves. Blog readers will be able to purchase books and CDs inside the box without leaving the blog page they are on. Blog publishers can populate their boxes by tag or with specific items of their selection. This is kind of like a “stuff i like” concept (see Stuff We Like). Incidentally, CivicActions has a GoodStorm Store where you can buy a “CivicActions Empowered” Shirt, or a Drupal Camp Seattle...