More than sixty people gathered in Galway, Ireland in April 2009 to talk, learn, and exchange ideas about Drupal. Drupal is a popular, reliable and very flexible content management system that’s used on many well-known websites. While they were there the attendees built free websites for two Irish charities. You can see the results at www.ruralsa.ie and www.zikomo.org. Both look great, well done to those involved!
Back in Australia the FullCodePress competition to build two charity websites has announced its team members and attempted to answer a tricky question: are events like this damaging to the web development community? I don’t think that charitable one-off events like this are anything other than a good idea. They’re nothing like design competition websites such as 99designs.com which encourage cookie cutter designs for minimum pay. At FullCodePress and the Drupal competition, professionals are pooling their skills to create quality products at no cost, purely for the challenge and the social good.
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