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[Bear K <bear@ursine-design.com>]

Hi folks,

I ran into the CivicSpace project a couple of days ago. It's an effort 
to customize the Drupal (PHP/mySQL) CMS system for civicly engaged 
websites. It came out of the US Howard Dean(iac) campaign. They're 
really added a lot of nice new features, and I think this is a really 
powerful system. It's also designed to help with real world events and 
planning (announcements, mailinglists, contact lists, event RVSP tools, 
volunteer organizing etc). That might be beyond the scope of our 
project, but then again, it might tie into what Andy G said on the PIW 
list about moving beyond the cyberworld. How about PIW launch parties 
in our respective cities? :-)

Check out http://www.civicspacelabs.org/
Also, the ad campaign for Firefox is running on it: 
http://www.spreadfirefox.com

I'm working on customizing the PIW website to use the system, I'll put 
it on another system to show you when I'm done. We don't have to opt 
for running the site on it, it's just really cool, and I want to play 
with customizing the skins to run a real site. (They even have a TAL 
template engine). :-)

Cheers,
Bear Kaufmann
www.ursine-design.com