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small-sites/abstract.md

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+In January's meeting, we learned about Drupal for big projects. Is there still a place for small sites in the Drupal ecosystem?
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+Yes. The same features that make Drupal projects consistent, repeatable and maintainable for large corporations can contribute to an affordable and independent offering for much smaller websites.
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+Benjamin Melançon from Agaric will tell us all about Drutopia, an ecosystem of Drupal distributions. The project is at a crossroads of the two ways to make the power of Drupal accessible to grassroots groups— solely as a quick-start distribution, or as a cooperative platform that offers an alternative to services like Squarespace or Wix without the black-box, proprietary code business model and vendor lock-in.
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+Initial description from https://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-Drupal-Group/events/267069414/

small-sites/small-sites-drupal-outline.md

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-In January's meeting, we learned about Drupal for big projects. Is there still a place for small sites in the Drupal ecosystem?
 
-Yes. The same features that make Drupal projects consistent, repeatable and maintainable for large corporations can contribute to an affordable and independent offering for much smaller websites.
+This is a followup to January's meeting, which unfortunately i was out of town for, but i understand we learned about Drupal for big projects.
 
-Benjamin Melançon from Agaric will tell us all about Drutopia, an ecosystem of Drupal distributions. The project is at a crossroads of the two ways to make the power of Drupal accessible to grassroots groups— solely as a quick-start distribution, or as a cooperative platform that offers an alternative to services like Squarespace or Wix without the black-box, proprietary code business model and vendor lock-in.
+Here we ask the followup question:  Is there still a place for small sites in the Drupal ecosystem?
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+Yes. The same features that make Drupal projects consistent, repeatable, and maintainable for large corporations can contribute to an affordable and independent offering for much smaller websites.
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+Drutopia is an ecosystem of Drupal distributions that is trying, in various ways, to bring Drupal's enterprise capabilities to everyone.  The project is at a crossroads of the two ways to make the power of Drupal accessible to grassroots groups— solely as a quick-start distribution, or as a cooperative platform that offers an alternative to services like Squarespace or Wix without the black-box, proprietary code business model and vendor lock-in.
 
 Initial description from https://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-Drupal-Group/events/267069414/
 
 
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 First question of course is why?  We're cold, calculating professionals, every one of us.  We use the best tool available.
 
 Why not WordPress or Backdrop or Ghost or Grav or Jekyll or Hugo?  Why not Ruby on Rails or Django?  Why not SquareSpace or Wix, for that matter?
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 ## Making things easier
 
-* Sharing configuration (feature modules)
+  * Sharing configuration (feature modules)
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+  * Good documentation
-* [Skins](https://www.drupal.org/project/skins ) instead of subthemes, an approach Drutopia is now taking.
+  * Just making the software easier to use (including modules to replace custom code, like my "In Other Words" module)
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+  * [Skins](https://www.drupal.org/project/skins ) instead of subthemes, an approach Drutopia is now taking.
-* Most of what you need arleady built— distributions.
+  * Most of what you need already built— distributions.
 
 
 ### Distributions
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   * Small business site, with [Druppio](https://www.drupal.org/project/druppio_small_business_distribution )
   * Online magazine or newspaper, with [Thunder](https://www.drupal.org/project/thunder )
   * Online community site allowing active subgroups, with [Open Social](https://www.drupal.org/project/social )
+  * Program and event locator, such as for finding out-of-school-time opportunities for kids, with [Find It](https://agaric.coop/findit )
   * Church site, with [OpenChurch](https://www.drupal.org/project/openchurch )
   * Corporate site, with [Droopler](https://www.drupal.org/project/droopler )
   * Learning management system, with [Opigno LMS](https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno_lms )
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   * including [Varbase](https://www.drupal.org/project/varbase ), a sort of generic starting point.
   * and of course, for a grassroots group, [Drutopia](https://www.drupal.org/project/drutopia ).
 
-You can take any one of these distributions, and build your site on it.  It can give you a big head start.  It may bring some headaches, too, but, that's Drupal.  That's web development.  That's life.  Still, grab and hack, which is a reason to start with a product-and-a-framework in one, a content management system and a framework in one like Drupal, in the first place, can give your small site a boost.  If you change
+You can take any one of these distributions, and build your site on it.  It can give you a big head start.  It may bring some headaches, too, but, that's Drupal.  That's web development.  That's life.  Still, grab and hack, which is a reason to start with a product-and-a-framework in one, a content management system and a framework in one like Drupal, in the first place, can give your small site a boost.
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+If you change much, however, you've likely essentially forked the distribution, and have a Drupal site that was once based on Distribution X.  And that's fine!  
 
 ### Drutopia's approach to distributions