In the October meeting, I talked about a site I'm developing for the Independent Communicators Alliance. The site-in-progress is at icatriangle.org/drupal (the current site is icatriangle). I've attached a .doc to this post that explains the intentions of the site.
My next steps in this are to figure out what modules are most appropriate for our needs. I developed it in Drupal 6; when I last worked on it back in August a couple of key modules were not yet stable in 6, but I'm hoping that's not the case now. I'm going to review Views, CCK and Panels and see if they will do what we need. Any suggestions are very very welcome!
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Have you looked at CiviCRM?
By hallmanClaire, I think CiviCRM might be useful for your membership and profile functions. I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. Your concerns about displaying email addresses made me think of it this morning.
They have a forum specifically for "Pre-installation Questions" at http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?board=5.0. The description: "Is CiviCRM a good fit for your organization? Post and review evaluation and pre-install discussions here."
civiCRM
By claireI didn't see a 6.x version on the drupal site, but didn't realize that there is one available on the civiCRM site. My big concern is that it requres "MySQL 5.x with INNODB enabled" and our host is using MySQL 4.1.22-standard. The only other concern is how long it would take to implement when I'm so close with the current configuration. But you're right, it does look perfect for our needs except for the MySQL issue. I might have to play with it a bit locally (my localhost doesn't have INNODB but it is MySQL 5.x), and see if the advantage is worth switching hosts.
cheers
cd