For some time I have wanted to promote and write about a new Drupal site that went online recently. The site carries a similar mission I've tried to have with my own sites where those from competing projects, products, and organizations can come together for discussion. In this case, a site with the desire to build a "place for those of us interested in open source solutions and community issues". The site is OpenSourceCommunity.org.
What makes this Drupal site interesting is that one of the more vocal founders of the site, Amy Stephen, is a Joomla! fanatic. Also, one of the primary builders of the site, HarryB, is a Wordpress and Joomla fan who has hit a home run with this being his first Drupal site. Make no mistake, the people who have invested their time on this site do have their own special interests to promote and it isn't necessarily Drupal. However, they have put those special interests aside to come up with a site they hope to benefit developers and users of various open source projects. Anyone who has interest in open source no matter where they originate can sign up for their own blog.
While you're visiting the site, you'll want to check out this first post from a very intelligent, witty, and charming open source user. :-) I plan to occasionally post on the site on open source topics that don't exactly fit in the world of content management systems. OpenSourceCommunity.org, I hope the very best for this site.
What makes this Drupal site interesting is that one of the more vocal founders of the site, Amy Stephen, is a Joomla! fanatic. Also, one of the primary builders of the site, HarryB, is a Wordpress and Joomla fan who has hit a home run with this being his first Drupal site. Make no mistake, the people who have invested their time on this site do have their own special interests to promote and it isn't necessarily Drupal. However, they have put those special interests aside to come up with a site they hope to benefit developers and users of various open source projects. Anyone who has interest in open source no matter where they originate can sign up for their own blog.
While you're visiting the site, you'll want to check out this first post from a very intelligent, witty, and charming open source user. :-) I plan to occasionally post on the site on open source topics that don't exactly fit in the world of content management systems. OpenSourceCommunity.org, I hope the very best for this site.
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Thank you, Bryan!
Bless your heart, Bryan! You are very good to us and we appreciate it very, very much. Thanks for encouraging people to join with us and I am certainly thankful we have no contractual agreement (right?) to pay for traffic from your site because I'd have to tell Madi there is no college for her next year! You are absolutely the best! Thanks again! Amy :)
Site Down
I was surprised to see this site is no longer active. Was there official news around this?
Sort Of
There was no "official news" as I recall. Just a post saying the site was going away for a while and hoped to return in future.
I really don't know when and if it is coming back.
Open Source Community
I've sent a note to Amy Stephen from OpenSourceCommunity.org on the status of the site. Perhaps we'll here from her here. In April of this year, Amy wrote:
Just a heads up for site visitors. I am moving Open Source Community to a different Web hosting environment. I will be taking the site down sometime tomorrow evening and will likely be down for awhile. It could be a week - maybe two, but one day, it'll be back! Thanks!
After some questions, she later wrote:
I blogged a bit over a year with WordPress - and I loved it. WordPress is still my all time favorite blogger.
I used Drupal for a bit over a year and I love it, too. Drupal is, by far, my favorite group blogging environment.
I am a proud flag carrying member of the Joomla! community. I will migrate next to Joomla! 1.5. There is one show-stoppers that I have to first find time to deal with and that is the ACL. I have migration scripts written and tested. There are a ton of cool extensions I want to use that are available. But, I need to conquer the ACL - I want to keep things open for site users.
I do not know if I will tackle that right now since I am overwhelmed with life. But, I might. OpenSourceCommunity is for fun and I have fun with it and intend to keep that way. That's the reason for my soft answer. I really don't know.