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The Door for New Contributors to Drupal is Still Locked

How can people feel good about contributing when the issue queue is so long it can be months before your code is reviewed?

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Strengthened by the Solidarity Economy Forum in Detroit

In Detroit, many once thriving neighborhoods lay in ruins - a testament to how the dominant economic system fails our communities. Hundreds of people met here to imagine and build an alternative economic system - a solidarity economy.

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Web Components: What Are They, and Can We Use Them Yet?

Web Components are a group of related standards promising to bring component-based extensibility to HTML documents. The great promise is that once you or someone else builds some component that provides a particular feature, it can easily be included and reused in other projects.

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How to Organize Drupal Global Training Days Workshops: Experiences and Lessons Learned

How to organize a Drupal Global Training Day workshop with key lessons learned from the trainings organized in Nicaragua.

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Visualizing and Growing Diversity in Software Communities

If you cannot visualize it, chances are you cannot realize or actualize it. How can people build their vision of a diverse community?

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Moving Towards a Service Oriented Architecture

We helped Zeit Online relaunch their publishing platform by first mapping out the services their system delivers.

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Working with Long-term Projects

What we've learned on long-term projects to help ensure the tech stack stays current.

"Remaking worker representation" slide in front of full small auditorium

Putting Powerful Platforms under Cooperative Control

Several hundred people gathered to talk about the problems of an online economy reliant on monopoly, extraction, and surveillance—and discuss how to build a "cooperative Internet, built of platforms owned and governed by the people who rely on them."

Indie Web Camp

Marking up Drupal's Blog Posts for the IndieWeb

A brief introduction into the IndieWeb movement and steps to bring your site and blog onto the independent social web, with code for Drupal 7.

Disposable Drupal Installations with Drush

You can easily create a disposable Drupal installation with a few drush commands.

Using Migrations to Provide Default Content

Using Migrate and JSON files we can supply default content as a way to immediately see how the layout will deal with it.

Richard Stallman and Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky and Richard Stallman - Meeting One

Richard Stallman and Noam Chomsky met for the first time.

Richard Stallman speaks at NYC Camp

We are the Mothers and Fathers of Future Freedoms

If there are two people on planet Earth that truly understand freedom and human rights, I believe it would be Noam Chomsky and Richard Stallman.

Performant Bulk-Redirection with Apache RewriteMap

Redirect users from an old path to a new path using a handy directive offered in Apache's mod_rewrite called RewriteMap.

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Altering Views' Results

Override a Drupal Views' result with hook_views_pre_render().

Migrate HTML the Easy Way in Drupal 7

How to migrate HTML into a Drupal 7 site.

Worc'n Holiday Party - Agaric Worker/Owner Meetup

The Worc'n Holiday Party

On a cold December night, we met at the Industry Lab to celebrate the Worcn group and our membership in the cooperatives we belong to.

A Yard and a Half Landscaping Cooperative - Agaric Worker/Owner Meetup

An Evening of Cooperatives and a Half

The CEO of A Yard and a Half Landscaping Cooperative shared her experience transitioning her company to a cooperative.