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Now that 2008 has officially arrived, we are eagerly pulling all our existing sites consolidated onto our platform infrastructure, freeing ourselves from (some of) the nightmares of ongoing maintenance and security updates, while we ramp up some new development projects for this year.
Meantime, I've been having some interesting conversations with others in the local drupal community, and eagerly watching the latest developments from a couple of projects related to the Anarres Drupal Platform: AutoPilot and HostMaster 2.
This month seems to be the month of Drupal updates. While the Drupal community prepares the 6.0 release, we are still working to get all our sites updated to the 5.x series. Sadly, this leaves little bandwidth to help with the D6 release, aside from some basic install/upgrade testing and reporting of bugs as/if we find them. Fortunately, once we've caught up, it should now be much easier to keep things up-to-date.
We have been working hard over the last few weeks and months to gather together a wealth of existing sites, develop a solid infrastructure, and build a solid foundation on which to base what I've come to think of as Anarres 2.0.
Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely skeptical of the actual meaning of the 2.0-style buzzwords, but in some very practical ways (read: from my perspective as a developer and worker-owner), it seems rather apt.
Anarres began working on the Ashoka.org family of sites in conjunction with Jason Diceman of Coop Tools, who helped Ashoka put together a team of developers to support and continue to build a growing list of online projects.
This includes many international Ashoka sites in many languages, an online Fellows Database, and a "contests toolkit" which drives sites like the Social Innovation Canada Awards
Anarres provides free web, mail, and domain hosting for its clients in conjunction with a warranty contract whenever we develop a custom Drupal site, or as a subscription-based "service" on our Standard or Custom Platform.
We support our sites' "good functioning" with email-based ticketing and managed security upgrades. This does not include troubleshooting desktop or network software itself, but extends to the distribution and receipt of email through Anarres servers, as well as the Drupal Platform, security monitoring and updates to our servers, and so on.