[consulting] Feasibility

[Andrew R. Kelly]

Amy, it appears you still have confusion over what Drupal Gardens is.  It is
a Drupal development platform with pre-defined modules which run on a D7
core, essentially Drupal-in-a-box for non-Drupal people to build Drupal
websites.  They also hosts the end result, which is why you probably are
viewing it as a hosting provider.  Before you decide on that hosting
solution you should decide whether or not their canned set of modules and
theme capabilities can support your existing site, and that they have the
ability to allow you to actually use that 10 hrs/week for your developer to
customize the way you want (I doubt it).  

If it were my dollars I'd contract with a freelancer here that is familiar
with Drupal Gardens to do a quick feasibility study (1-2 day effort).  I'd
include in that study a request for hosting options if Drupal Gardens turns
out to NOT be the best route.   Your biggest challenge will be finding
someone with DG experience since its designed to NOT need bright folks like
this list has ;).

Hope this helps, just trying to help you get the most from your non-profit
dollars.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Weinstein Amy
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 1:08 PM
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
Subject: Re: [consulting] Feasibility

Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments and ideas.  

It is true that the writer of the job description (me) is NOT a techie and
so does NOT necessarily know the most accurate way to phrase the request.
So, this is where my new consultant comes to my rescue!  I do not have a
definitive way I want to do this project (sorry if it sounded like I did in
my original post).  I just know one thing.I am currently using Drupal 5 and
I need to be using Drupal 7.  Also, I am using GoDaddy as a host, but I want
to be using Drupal Gardens.  

Someone mentioned the 'discovery' stage.and yes, it is true that I do not
have a large budget and so I was hoping to minimize this stage given the
information above.  But of course, I would respect the decision of the
consultant in terms of how to proceed and recognize that some discovery
would be necessary to assess the most cost and time efficient way to manage
this process.

Again, thanks so much for your perspective.I'm learning a lot and I know
that the outcome will be worth the effort to find the right solution.  Now
if I could just find someone who wants to do the work......

Amy J. Weinstein
98 Random Farms Drive, Chappaqua, NY  10514
Phone/Fax:  914-762-3494 -----www.fightplga.org
amy at achildrensbraintumorcure.org

"PLGA Children should fight for their dreams, not for their lives."




On Feb 13, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Vivek Khurana wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann 
> <nan_wich at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> I have done the upgrades both ways (5->6 + 6->7 as well as rebuilds). 
>> For me, it's largely a toss up, but I am finding more and more that 
>> sites still on 5 are there because it was difficult to go to 6, 
>> therefore will be difficult to get to 7. So, I am now approaching all 
>> D5 sites as though they are most likely going to need rebuilding. I 
>> have one major D5 site left currently, and I know it is going to be a 
>> rebuild of epic proportions (other bids have run in excess of $100K). 
>> But while we're at it, the site also needs a significant redesign, so 
>> we might as well bite the bullet and do it all together.
> 
> I recently did a D5 to D7 migration for a fairly large news site and 
> it wasnt difficult, took us about 2 weeks to migrate all content 
> types.
> 
> regards
> Vivek
> 
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