> Nathan Moore here, the General Administrator at Free Speech Radio News.

> Just joined this Google group to look at some details of rolling out the
> Spot.Us model as a component of FSRN's operations.  We're looking at this as
> a way to solicit donations for and increase the presence of some of our
> reporting that is very rare in the U.S. -- particularly our on-the-ground
> reporters in Pakistan, Gaza, Iran, etc.

> Many thanks to David for pointing me tohttp://www.digidave.org/2009/03/how-to-build-your-own-community-funde...

> One question strikes me immediately -- has anyone tried to roll out the
> Spot.Us code in a Drupal site?  That is, can the Ruby On Rails code somehow
> be integrated with a drupal environment?  FSRN's site is built on drupal,
> which makes a lot of sense for us.  But I'm not sure if/how drupal and RoR
> work together or talk to each other.

> I suppose this might also be a good question for our website administrator,
> but I wanted to see if anyone has had experience with it.

> Thanks much!

> ~Nathan

> --
> Nathan Moore
> General Administrator
> Free Speech Radio News
> (608) 554-0225
> ad...@fsrn.org

> Nathan
>  This is a very good question.

>  The quick answer is: Yes - they can work together, but not without a
> lot of pushing and pulling. It is less than ideal and would require
> somebody that really knows their databases and general programming
> languages (php and ruby).

>  Just to let folks know: Spot.Us is going to start its next
> development phase soon (Septemberish) and the site will begin to
> improve again so that it will be more functional for people and easier
> to install.

> Best
> David

> On Jul 9, 4:02 pm, Nathan Moore <thetallnat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,

> > Nathan Moore here, the General Administrator at Free Speech Radio News.

> > Just joined this Google group to look at some details of rolling out the
> > Spot.Us model as a component of FSRN's operations.  We're looking at this
> as
> > a way to solicit donations for and increase the presence of some of our
> > reporting that is very rare in the U.S. -- particularly our on-the-ground
> > reporters in Pakistan, Gaza, Iran, etc.

> > Many thanks to David for pointing me tohttp://
> www.digidave.org/2009/03/how-to-build-your-own-community-funde...

> > One question strikes me immediately -- has anyone tried to roll out the
> > Spot.Us code in a Drupal site?  That is, can the Ruby On Rails code
> somehow
> > be integrated with a drupal environment?  FSRN's site is built on drupal,
> > which makes a lot of sense for us.  But I'm not sure if/how drupal and
> RoR
> > work together or talk to each other.

> > I suppose this might also be a good question for our website
> administrator,
> > but I wanted to see if anyone has had experience with it.

> > Thanks much!

> > ~Nathan

> > --
> > Nathan Moore
> > General Administrator
> > Free Speech Radio News
> > (608) 554-0225
> > ad...@fsrn.org