Palante Tech Blog

07.17.2013
As part of our commitment to the worker cooperative movement and open source business principles, we want to make the documentation that runs our business freely available.  To that end, today we're opening the "PT Commons", a repository of internal documents that may be of interest to other cooperatives and tech providers.  Find it at: https://hq.palantetech.coop. For new and forming cooperatives, you'll find documents like our bylaws and certificate of incorporation.  For folks doing similar work, you'll find technical documentation about how we do our job.  Over the coming weeks, we'll be reviewing more of our internal documentation and making it available online!  If there's a document you'd like to see right away, feel free to let us know. PT Commons
03.08.2013
A common need when creating Drupal content types that include geographic info: a key|value formatted list of US states and territories that can be dropped into the allowed values attribute of a field. I found this great start, a list of all the states, then added the territories and their postal codes from Wikipedia. Hope this helps someone else!
05.18.2012
If you search online, the most common method for extracting a list of subscribers of a Mailman list requires command-line access to the Mailman server.  There's a much more user-friendly way to do it via the web interface. The easiest way is to pull up the roster, which you can do by taking the web address for the admin interface, and substituting the word "roster" for the word "admin". So for example:
04.27.2012
Palante Tech will be running at limited capacity on May 1st to allow us to participate alongside our client organizations, allies, and the thousands of others across the United States and around the world organizing for the Occupy general strike and International Workers' Day. We're happy that as a worker-owned cooperative, we were able to bring our shared values and beliefs to this consensus-based decision.
03.22.2012
Palante Tech is excited to announce Benjamin Doherty as the newest member of our cooperative! Benjamin, aka bangpound on Drupal.org and elsewhere online, is a longtime Drupal developer and contributor to Drupal core and modules.
12.04.2011
This is a writeup of our internal process for troubleshooting rdiff-backup/backupninja errors. Please note that it's a work in progress!