Sustainable Alachua County: A Web Work in Progress

It’s been a while since I last wrote about my (volunteer) work for Sustainable Alachua County. Back in March of this year, I started to build a social network for the Gainesville nonprofit using BuddyPress, an impressive suite of plugins for the WordPress MU platform.

But I put the BuddyPress project on hold when my colleague John Casey and I got ambitious and aspired to build a mega-site for SAC using Drupal, another open source content management system. After some time of tedious tweaking, we decided to revert back to the WordPress-based system.

I’ve now got a rough draft of the new Sustainable Alachua County website that I built using BuddyPress, and I recorded a screencast preview of how it works for the SAC board members:

I’m still waiting on the SAC board members to get some feedback on the site, but I’m hoping we’ll stick with the general idea you see in the above video.

Update: The SAC website BETA is up.