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I'm a business writer and have used drupal to set up the companion site for my latest book 'Start Your Business Week by Week' (in which drupal gets a plug!).
We're a fairly big online news site in South Africa. We have implemented drupal to serve as our blog tool... the service so far has been a runaway success and the site has moved into our top 10 sections in the space of 4 months.
Can anyone comment on our implementation on drupal here. We wanted it pretty basic, but I am sure there are areas we can improve...
This introducation was kept as short as possible, Donorge is a very new donation service which is based on Drupal. (note that I (Casper) will also be present at the Drupal conference 2005 for Donorge) Also consider having a look at http://drupal.org/forum/4 to see the announcement of the ready for usage donations module
What is Donorge?
Donations are the most general way of supporting any organization and when you recognize we all have shared interests in donations, you will find the strongest points to be relations. Relations confront those who isolate. Donorge is a stand alone donation service, a free giving network developed under the GPL license on savannah.nongnu.org (at 5 - production/stable status). Donorge is very young, just about 2 months old but by now already more feature complete than the majority of other donation solutions (note that Donorge has been privately developed for over a year). Donorge is maintaining a low profile before it has tackled some it's interface and English, but Donorge in fact already is on-line and ready for usage.
Long term goal
Make people recognize that a giving network is better off organized when developed in the open. The Donorge mission: free donations, transparency, bottom-up control. To make people understand that an openly developed giving network is a priceless shared interest which cannot be afforded to ignore. “When I want to give something, I want to see before me a network which is openly dedicated to the act of giving and supporting. I want to recognize the strengths of that network in relation to my and the receiver's interests. I want to know the giving network remains neutral. A smart giving network which benefits people who want to give and receive money or goods. A shared interest dedicated to supporting each our own interests.”
We have just re-launched our site after some serious back engine redevelopment. Our shift has moved away from Windows hosting running Enterprise Edition Coldfusion MX and Microsoft SQL; toward a more open source platform environment called AMP: Apache, Mysql and PHP server side scripting.