diff --git a/small-sites/abstract-small-sites-drupal.md b/small-sites/abstract-small-sites-drupal.md index cf9317e..347d523 100644 --- a/small-sites/abstract-small-sites-drupal.md +++ b/small-sites/abstract-small-sites-drupal.md @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Initial description from https://www.meetup.com/Twin-Cities-Drupal-Group/events/ 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? + * Webforms * Structured content * Faceted search @@ -32,11 +34,25 @@ Approaches: * Sharing configuration (feature modules) -* Skins instead of subthemes +* [Skins](https://www.drupal.org/project/skins ) instead of subthemes, an approach Drutopia is now taking. + +* Most of what you need arleady built— distributions. ### Distributions + * Restaurant + * Small business + * Online magazine or newspaper, with [Thunder](https://www.drupal.org/project/thunder ) + * Community site allowing active subgroups, with []( ) + * Corporate site, with [Droopler](https://www.drupal.org/project/droopler ) + * Learning management system, with [Opigno LMS](https://www.drupal.org/project/opigno_lms ) + * Government sites, [GovCMS](https://www.drupal.org/project/govcms8 ) + * Volunteer coordination, with [Volunteer Center](https://www.drupal.org/project/vc ) + * and [more](https://www.drupal.org/project/project_distribution?f%5B0%5D=&f%5B1%5D=&f%5B2%5D=drupal_core%3A7234&f%5B3%5D=sm_field_project_type%3Afull&f%5B4%5D=&f%5B5%5D=&text=&solrsort=ds_project_latest_activity+desc&op=Search ) + * including [Varbase]( ), a sort of generic starting point. + + ## Growing big enough that the bumps seem tiny @@ -52,6 +68,10 @@ Approaches: (A term I coined, but someone else coined it independently. Which makes it a movement.) +LibreSaaS is a business model that works for Free/Libre Open Source Software (even if people don't *care* whether it is free/libre or not, at least libre software isn't at a disadvantage. + +LibreSaaS has qualities that are enterprise and movement friendly (the easy to get started, can take full ownership/control as needed angle) + * Round Earth, Drupal + CiviCRM by Drupal support and maintenance experts MyDropWizard. * Open Social * [Open Church](http://openchurchsite.com/ ) @@ -114,17 +134,21 @@ I've essentially been talking about centralizing our way to being able to compet That hasn't been fashionable in tech circles since... ever. We're supposed to create decentralized protocols -and of course, Mastodon is a pretty big success (find me on social.coop), but despite the relative decentralization, it's a fairly fragile ecosystem. +and of course, [Mastodon](https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon#readme ) is a pretty big success (find me on social.coop), but despite the relative decentralization, it's a fairly fragile ecosystem. + +Mastodon went public four years ago today + + +Completely decentralized approaches, like Scuttlebutt, are not hitting that ease of use Cooperative platforms can provide the business model which -It has a business model that works for Free Software (people don't *care* whether it is or not, but at least libre software isn't at a disadvantage. -It has qualities that are enterprise and movement friendly (the easy to get started, can take full ownership/control as needed angle) # Cooperative Platforms powered by LibreSaaS + * [Social.coop](https://wiki.social.coop/home.html ) and [Sunbeam.City](https://sunbeam.city/about/more ), running on Mastodon (and also using Loomio and Open Collective). * [CoopCycle](https://coopcycle.org/en/ ), the European federation of bike delivery coops. Governed democratically by coops, it enables them to stand united and to reduce their costs— including by producing Libre Software. * [Fairmondo](https://www.fairmondo.de/ ), an online marketplace (Germany). @@ -145,7 +169,17 @@ It's not all bad. If you search for "Squarespace" or "Wix" on Meetup.com, the o Of course, Meetup.com itself sold out to the biggest real estate scam of .. well, the past two years .. [WeWork](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/wework-is-a-scam ). +Meetup was the epitome +Late last year + +Real shame they aren't open source, with full data portability, for when the venture capitalists in charge inevitably start siphoning our blood to + +... and there's [work to get events and meetups capabilities off the ground in the ActivityPub space](https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-for-activitypub-apps#events-and-meetups + +but discoverability is hard. + +So again: More central platforms, under control of the people who use them Historically, under pressure, many people have turned to forming cooperative associations. @@ -170,8 +204,28 @@ We might have a solution to the problems of people being unable to afford to liv +Decline of groups.drupal.org, drupal.org + +Meetup +Stack Exchange +Slack + + + +Do you maintain a site or have a client with a lot of community interaction on it? + +Groups, forums, posts with comments? + +We at Agaric have an example of each: NICHQ, TeachersWithGUTS.org, GEO.coop + Drutopia? +Failed to be community-first. Not sure that's possible but that's what i'd like to aim for now. + + +join the actually-existing federated social web + +That's what [Mastodon did](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-activitypub-is-the-future/ )