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Drupal for the ‘Grassroots’! April 10, 2007

Well, litterally so, it’s also about an organisation called Grassroots.org. I just came across this post on the Digital Divide mailing list yesterday. The organisation offers nonprofits ICT solutions for free. And, one of the tools they include in their offering is the Drupal Content management platform.

While Drupal is Free (as it’s open source), this organisation goes a step further and offers free hosting, free support and training material and free domain name registration for the first year! Well, I sure hope non profits make use of this opportunity.
And yes, another thing! These guys are applying for an innovation fund, and need some help, as they are running against time (there is a deadline to meet in 3 days, on the 14th). Called the NetSquared innovation fund, it finances projects based on a voting system from the larger community out there. So, please visit http://www.netsquared.org/projects/vote and register / vote.

It’s good to see open source tools being adopted by ‘grassroots’ organisations to further their cause, and happy to note that Drupal is out there as the choice.