The People Formerly Known As The Audience landed a piece on Wired.com today about the Open Architecture Network (OAN).  

The
story was part of a pro-am journalistic experiment orchestrated through
Assignment Zero that produced 80 distinct articles dealing with
crowdsourcing, of which 12 earned a spot on Wired's home page.  As one
of the OAN story contributors, I bagged my first byline on Wired.com,
one in which I was decidedly on the am side of pro-am. 
While my contribution was relatively small, it was enough to give me a
taste of the post-edit blues - most of my copy was either red-lined, or
reduced to the point of inaccuracy.   My original reporting expanded on
the technology choices and process of developing a collaboration site
using the open source CMS Drupal.   The final piece gives a nod to
Drupal and Sun Microsystems, but leaves the wrong impression:

"Even the software powering the site -- designed by Sun Microsystems --
is open source: the Drupal content management system chosen by
thousands of nonprofits for its ease of use."

Sun did not design Drupal, and while ease of use is one of the virtues of Drupal it's an oversimplified view of why so many nonprofits use it.  Granted, the focus of the story was not so much on technology as the potential for open source design, but one of the points red-lined from my copy was perhaps one of the most relevant given the context of this crowdsourcing experiment:

"Organizations that use Drupal for their online communities include... Assignment Zero."

Drupal is everywhere.   Drupal's integral role in the explosion of collaboratives born of open sharing and grass roots participation is worthy of an entire Wired issue, if not more than just a mention buried deep in one story.  Even among citizen journalism sites, it's a dominant software platform - witness The Witness Project, for example.

Still, good to see the momentum for Architecture for Humanity continuing in the media - in addition to the Wired piece, another story about the OAN appeared this week in Business Week, and AFH's founder, Cameron Sinclair, was added to the distinguished list of "Thinkers of Tech" for Fortune's iMeme conference next week in San Francisco.

We're still the audience, we just have something to say now.