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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/ )