Dries Buytaert

United Nations using Drupal

The United Nations is using Drupal for their End Poverty Campaign. The site is part of a network of Drupal sites that stand up against poverty. This network of sites is part of the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they agreed to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

The End Poverty site was built by Development Seed. They told me that the United Nations has been pushing the envelope by funding the work on some forthcoming internationalization features that will be used to replicate some of their sites in multiple languages.

Glad to see that the United Nations are good (Drupal) community players. ;)

It is great to help make a product that many people like, but it is even better when that product helps improve the world a little bit!

Drupal meeting in Ghent

On June 1st, we'll have another Belgian Drupal User Group meeting. This time, we'll meet in Ghent where the people from Across will talk about gfmd-fmmd.org, a Drupal site they built for the Belgian government. The meeting targets intermediate to advanced Drupal users, and we'll cover topics like the content construction kit, views, access control and internationalization. More information is available in the announcement at drupal.be. The event is free and open for everyone, but registration is required.

CD&V using Drupal

The CD&V (Christian Democratic and Flemish), one of the main political parties in Belgium, is now using Drupal for their official website.

Hillary Clinton using Drupal

Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton announced today that she'll embark on a campaign to become the first female president of the United States. And do you know what? Her supporters made her a Drupal campaign website already. Yay!

United Nations using Drupal

NATO using Drupal

Recently training was conducted for participants representing a number of NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) Training Centers.

Participants were led through a set of scenario driven exercises using a system based on Drupal and XMPP. The scenario encouraged participants to "meet" online (even though they were sitting across the room from each other) and coordinate events and information in "semi public and private spaces". The group also modeled and simulated how to find subject matter experts using the expertise keywords, profiles, tagging, and search.

Interesting to see how social software tools (i.e. Drupal) are used by institutions such as NATO, and glad to see that we help make the world a better place ...

NASA using Drupal

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is using Drupal for their Academy of Program / Project and Engineering Leadership website (APPEL). Sweet!