Project management consulting and training for social change organisations.
The project management training participants I've been working with at the LEF are in the middle of their 6 week practicums right now — 7 teams have been paired with 7 not-for-profit organizations to manage 7 different technology projects, 4 of which are open source content management system implementations. Because the 4 CMS teams are doing all of this for the first time, and because their timelines are as tight as they are, they've all decided to use the same CMS so they can share learnings and divide up work where possible.
The teams have chosen Drupal as the CMS to standardize on, and this morning, we brought in Derek Laventure of the Annares Working Group, a worker co-operative providing open source software development and training services to not-for-profits and NGOs, to take them through a 3 hour tour of Drupal and get them started. Derek presented a really well defined set of step-by-step instructions for configuring Drupal, modifying themes, installing contributed modules and performing advanced customizations. Highly recommended if you need to take a group through Drupal training yourself!
