]> http://www.unionwebservices.com/taxonomy/term/129/all en http://www.unionwebservices.com/all_news/technology/168 <p>We have to say this about <a href="http://www.drupal.org/">Drupal</a>. We have never seen a development process so heavily invested by in a group of ad hoc developers, yet managing to be focused, controlled, carefully-coded and oriented toward a larger vision of building useful community software. The pace is head-spinning at times, but this project has much to offer labor unions. <br /><br />This is the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">open source</a> process working at a level only exceded by projects like Firefox, Apache, and Zope - and they all have foundations or corporations that support them. Drupal doesn't, but that too is in the works. Recently, <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google </a>funded the development of several components.</p> <p>The best news is that a team of developers has hitched onto the Drupal bandwagon and started a programming initiative that is specifically focused on creating organizing software.</p> Technology Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:48:29 -0500