[Nfb-web] NFB-WEB Sandbox

[Michael Hansen]

Arnold,

Couple more comment about Affilate and chapter use of Drupal. You
asked if there has been any thought to affiliates and chapters making
use of it. Offically I don't konw the answer how ever I have obviously
thought about it. The NFB of Nebraska and the NFB of Arizona are
currently using it along with the Webmaster committee website.

As for ISPs having it available or not. nfbnet.org has it available to
install right from within cpanel. The use of Drupal on nfbnet.org
websites was infact a topic of discussion between Dave Andrews and
myself as Dave was making plans for the new server.

I am hopping that the experiences I gain and lessons I learn from
these 3 sites helps us determine whether or not this is a desirable
option of Affiliates and Chapters. If we get to the point were a lot
of chapters are wanting to use it we could even look into a multi site
installation on nfbnet.org. This could make maintaining drupal easier
as sites would be sharing some common files.

Mike
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Mike Hansen



On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Arnold Bailey <arnoldbail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike.
>
> Thanks to Everett and yourself for the comments.
>
> My interest in Drupal is twofold.
>
>   1. Curiosity and to expand my knowledge.
>   2. I have this vision of creating a platform to draw blind and visually
>   impaired students into investigating programming as a career. It would be
>   great if it was at a national level; but, a chapter level is ok. With 70%
>   unemployment in our community, there is obviously a great need. I must
>   admit, though, that, other than Peter D,, I've found zero support. But, I
>   can't give up the vision without feeling I've let down a lot of kids. The
>   Drupal development platform and learning support activities that it
>   requires, I think, is a great learning mechanism.
>
> Arnold
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Michael Hansen <mhansen4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Arnold,
>>
>> Everett is correct. My thought on the matter would be how much do you
>> want the ISP to take care of versus how much are you the Admin willing
>> to take care of?
>>
>> Mike
>> ---
>> Mike Hansen
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:20 AM, E.J. Zufelt <everett at zufelt.ca> wrote:
>> > Good morning,
>> >
>> > If the ISP supports mysQL and PHP it takes about 20 minutes to install
>> > Drupal for a hosting account.
>> >
>> > HTH,
>> > Everett
>> >
>> >
>> > On 4-Mar-09, at 8:37 AM, Arnold Bailey wrote:
>> >
>> >> Mike,
>> >>
>> >> Very nice work. I did notice that in firefox the navigation side bar is
>> >> located into the center of the webmasters sandbox page. In IE it's fine.
>> >>
>> >> One question I have. Is there any thoughts given to affiliate and
>> chapters
>> >> usage of drupal? It seems like it would make sense for the affiliate and
>> >> chapters to pull a drupal theme and NFB applications and use them on
>> their
>> >> site, The problem is that drupal is not usually found on most ISPs. I
>> >> would
>> >> think that a single ISP that has drupal support would be cost
>> effectively
>> >> justified.
>> >>
>> >> Arnold
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Michael Hansen <mhansen4 at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> The Sandbox is now up and running on our website. If you want to play
>> >>> around with a drupal install and not have to worry about breaking
>> >>> something there is one there for you. If you want to experiment with
>> >>> other things just create a sub directory off of the root and dorp in
>> >>> your code. Complete login information is posted on our website.
>> >>>
>> >>> Let me know if you have questions.
>> >>>
>> >>> Mike
>> >>> ---
>> >>> Mike Hansen
>> >>>
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