Big news folks- CivicSpace Labs has just helped a major new eCommerce company launch this week using on CivicSpace/Drupal, at http://www.GoodStorm.com. We think this is going to be one of the highest traffic CivicSpace sites ever launched, and it's already yielding a lot of new useful Drupal code(organic group stores, e-commerce products, sub-products, apparel, paypal pro, e-civicrm).

GoodStorm is explicitly aimed at helping non-profit organization earn income to support their work through merchandising-- which is to say that it provides production, online sales, and fulfillment of printed branded apparel as an online service. We think that where CivicSpace helps to provide online tools to organizations, GoodStorm will help the organizations help themselves to become financially sustainable.

We had to push a bit, but we succeeded in getting it all built on Drupal, and tons of new Drupal eCommerce functionality is being funded, built, and contributed back to Drupal as a result. CiviCRM will be integrated as a toolset for each storeowner, and there will be modules to easily integrate GoodStorm storefronts directly into existing Drupal sites.

Development for Goodstorm was made with contributions from many Drupal developers and has been contributed back to the Drupal community or will be shortly. Contributions include: Karoly Negyesi: organic group stores and forums, Jeremy Andrews: PayPal Pro, e-civicrm, Gordon Heydon: e-commerce sub-products, Nedjo Rogers e-commerce sub products, e-commerce apparel, e-commerce custom, Jeff Robins: LogginTobbogan patches for 4.6, Matt Westgate provided e-commerce expertise and maintained many of the contributions. The site was developed by the Goodstorm team lead by Mark Burdett and Nathan Ramella who will be leading efforts to move the Drupal code back into contributions where it will benefit from community use, patches, and security reviews. Marc Scheff was the creative director and the site was designed by Heather Miller.

With that, I'm off to do my holiday shopping at GoodStorm to support a great new CivicSpace/Drupal project and, more importantly, the good organizations it supports!

If you would like to be a partner and help raise funds for your organization you can read about it here http://www.goodstorm.com/participate

The CivicSpace Labs Team