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History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

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Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

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ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).

To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.

There is a dashboard running for the archivebot process at http://www.archivebot.com.

ArchiveBot's source code can be found at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot.

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Drupal Distributions, an Open Source Product Model

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Business

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Scheduled: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 from 3:45 – 4:30pm in B301

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Excerpt

Drupal has the ability to bundle contributed modules, configurations and settings, and custom code into a single package that can be easily installed and further configured by end users. The end result is an application-in-a-box focused on a specific set of requirements. Now that you or your business has invested hundreds or even thousands of hours creating your masterpiece, what do you do with it?

Description

There are already some very established Drupal distributions such as OpenAtrium (project management), Managing News (aggregation), Drupal Commons (social network) and many more. The dominent business model evolving around these products is providing commercial support, much like RedHat does for Linux.

But there are other avenues as well, including getting a set fee each time a distribution is used on a managed infrastructure stack such as Acquia’s and even through acquisition.

ThinkShout has a distribution for conservation groups called WaterShed Now that is already in use by over a dozen organizations and we’re working on another one with Shomeya called RedHen, an open source CRM built natively with Drupal 7.

This talk will cover some light technical details about Drupal distributions and how they work, how some of the more prominent distros are fairing in the wild, and how ThinkShout hopes to capitalize on the one’s we’re working on.

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Lev Tsypin
ThinkShout
- Website: http://thinkshout.com/
- Blog: http://levelos.com/blog
- Twitter: levelos
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Biography

I’m a senior engineer and co-owner of ThinkShout, Inc., where I lead our technical design, as well as user interface and module development. Previously, I founded and led Level Online Strategy here in Portland, OR.

When not working to help organizations through technology, I like to take advantage of the areas they protect, be it on foot, skis, or bike. At least when I’m not wrapped up with my 2 boys, which isn’t very often these days!

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- * Drupal Distributions, an Open Source Product Model
  - Title: Drupal Distributions, an Open Source Product Model
  - Track: Business
  - Room: B301
  - Time: 3:45 – 4:30pm
  - Excerpt:
    Drupal has the ability to bundle contributed modules, configurations and settings, and custom code into a single package that can be easily installed and further configured by end users. The end result is an application-in-a-box focused on a specific set of requirements. Now that you or your business has invested hundreds or even thousands of hours creating your masterpiece, what do you do with it?
  - Speakers: Lev Tsypin

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