This gives a few notes on why I did it and how it was done.

In the course of building the Paopi site, we found that on my shared ssl account, the team could not get a civicrm civicontribute donation workflow to go all the way through to a payment processor.

The interns determined we would need a private ssl. To get one, we would need to finalize hosting for paopi. I worked with Mr. Angeles to finance this. It turns out for a shared hosting account, static IP, private SSL, bluehost would end up being $2 more expensive than hostgator. Also, hostgator had a plan offering that packaged up everything you need into a business plan for $10.36 per month when you bought 3 years of service.

We bought 3 years of service. I locked in to a paopi.org web address through godaddy since it was $5 per year cheaper than procuring the web address straight from hostgator. I changed the default name servers for paopi.org to point to the hostgator named servers.

Next, I had to move the site from bluehost.

Here's a checklist of things I had to do:

• Use phpmyadmin to export the paopi drupal and civicrm databases as .sql files. The drupal one which had most of the work done to it was about 20 megs. The civicrm was 2 or 3 meg.
• I had to edit the sql scripts on my home computer searching and replacing instances of foreignt, my bluehost shared host user with the appropriate web address (paopi.org) or directory settings that were present in hostgator.
• I had to create shell databases for paopi and paopicivicrm in hostgator and import the edited sql scripts from my home computer into them through the hostgator cpanel. I don't have ssh yet on hostgator because the request is still in.
• I had to create a hostgator mysql database user that had acces to the shell databases.
• I had to edit the sites/all/ civicrmsettings and settings.php files to change references to foreignt database users to the one I created on my hostgator account
• Some of these edits required temporarily chaning permissions on some locked files. Remember to change the permissions back to avoid any security holes.

That's pretty much it.

ASSIGNEMENT:

Business Analyst –requirements for the WEBSITE. Contact Robert Angeles.

Web Designers – your PLAN in designing the WEBSITE. DRAFT. 

Project Manager – The flow of the website

WEBSITE: (if you have plans already sir, or the client had a plan already, it's ok sir)

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CONTACT US

WORK PLAN:
By Next Week, we have accomplish the documentation of the proposed website. We will study on how to use Drupal 7. If our proposal has been approved, we will start immediately (assuming all the requirements are sent to us).

NEEDS FOR THE WEBSITE:

Pictures

Background of the 3 Charities

Contact Information of the Charities

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Correct me if I misunderstood something Mr. Garcia. Thank YOU!

I'm going to assess the different things I've got going on now at home and at work and try to pull together into a model/story for how I will carry on my next decade of life.

Family

• Finances 
  • Mint.Com is helping me clear up a blurry picture. Now I can set better goals for my kids educational future and my retiremnt with my wife.
  • Prudential Financial Services - I am having periodic financial reviews with our financial planner to also make sure we're on course.
  • As I turn 40, I have in place insurance,retirement,and social security to ensure my wife and daughters will have what they need.
  • Need to continually optimize planning for the future with the opportunity cost of using the money in the present.
• Our story
  • We enjoy and are well integrated with our community in Conshohocken and Philadelphia. I am glad to give the girls one place to call home and see what you can do by setting roots down.
  • We are also bringing the kids up to embrace their Filipino culture taking them to restaurants, watching Filipino TV, cultural and charity events, trips to the Philppines.
  • Enjoy sharing our lives with relatives and friends in driving distance, trips to see family abroad, and of course everyone else through Facebook.
  • Melissa has a great influence on the girls' academic scholarship and understanding of medicine/science. Of course, my influence is on the turning them into an elite special force with jedi like skills in web and application development. We rely on Music Training Center for the musical influence though we as a family enjoy listening to all sorts of music. Our strong relationships with frieds and family provide the rest of their influence.

Communities

• Cognitive Metaphors Filipino Web Internship
• Philippine American Outreach Program / Joy and Caregiving Foundation
• Knights of Columbus
• Conshohocken Catholic School
• Conshohocken Environmental Advisory Council
• Conshohocken CYO
• YMCA Adventure Princess Program
• Montgomery Country Special Olympics Bowling
• Pentaho Philadelphia User Group
• Philippine Energy Market
• Foreign Trained Dentists
• Drupal
• Apple iPod/iPad Development

Work

My profession provides the experience, time, and money I need to be involved in all of this. I look forward to a day when I can bring all of these areas closer together.

NRG Energy - I'm learning a lot about the energy market. It complements the time I spent at PJM. It's an inspirational place to see a company try to change the face of the US energy market in cooperation with government, community, and industry. I'm also enjoying helping to set the project agenda with by business customers and doing everything in my power IT development / communications / relationship building wise to make those projects happen. I'm happy I get to use most every tool in my toolbox here and get to work with other strong players.

3Touchpoints.com - hoping to nurture my venture with my partner Sushant. I've been throwing leads, advising on data warehousing and trying to figure out service offerings around Pentaho, educating myself on web analytics.

Side work - Once in a while, my colleagues or someone new from the internet throws me a side job.  It's always interesting to step into someone else's world for a while an fix a problem/capture an opportunity through IT/management/communications/sales skills you can by age 40 perform in your sleep. Of course, it's yet another opportunity to learn/stretch skills you are not so adept at.

More on this later. This will be a lving article that I will continue to edit throughout the month.

This wiki could serve a lot of folks including:

• People who want to remotely or locally run a web internship without too much formaility.
• Programmers looking for extra hands who can move your Drupal projects faster in exchange for some coordination and mentorship.
• Programmers on the management track looking to get experience with managing / outsourcing.
• Filipinos abroad looking for a general way to donate their expertise in computer science towards helping students in the Philippines

"You say you want a revolution? Well, you know, we all want to change the world." - The Beatles

Abstract:

The Cognitive Metaphors Filipino Web Internship program started in 2006 with one student. In 2009, I took on 5 students to continue to build out web communities that I am passionate about using the Drupal content management system. My overall motivation is to leverage my talents and eventually create opportunities for my fellow Filipinos and family back home in the town of Plaridel, Bulacan, Philippines. My grandfather, Emilio Garcia, once served as Mayor of Plaridel during the Japanese occupation in WWII, 1945.

The following is a cookbook that I hope others will follow to promote interest in Computer Science in the Philippines. Please feel free to adapt these ideas to the communities that you are most passionate about. Young people need many more opportunities to apply significant hours of supervised practice if they are to become proficient in this craft. Malcom Gladwell's Outliers claims you need 10,000 hours of practice to be really good in any endeavor you wish to master.

--Anthony

Here's a lists of communities that are a part of me. I'm either actively involved in them now or grew up in them.

Conshohocken Catholic School - www.conshohockencatholic.org

Knights of Columbus - www.kofcconshohockencouncil1603.org

Conshohocken Little League - assistant coach

Montgomery County Special Olympics - Bowling coach - I grew up in bowling leagues and am happy to share my skills in this worthwhile program from Sept - Nov each year.

Joy And Care Giving Foundation and St. Anthony's Development Center - this is my mom's foundation and the school she built on land left to her sisters and her. The school serves underpriveleged children with a pre-school and soon to be 1st, 2nd, and adult vocational education.

The Philippine-American Civic and Cultural Community of Staten Island (

PACCCSI) - Grew up bowling on Saturday nights, Christmas parties, family parties.

Plaridel, Bulacan, Philippines - My grandfather was the mayor of this town during WWII around  the time of the Japanese occupation.

Rutgers / Comp Sci Department / English Department

Penn State Great Valley / Information Science Department

Saint Joseph's High School

Our Lady of Fatima Elementary School

Saint Joseph's Rosebank Elementary School

Drupal

Pentaho

I'll write more later. The idea is that to some extent, I am or plan to use the social networking skills I am building up .

I've just finished a great 3 day session at Drupalcon D.C. 2009. On a sad note, in the last hour of the conference I lost a gold cross pen that I bought on my first date with my wife. It had my name on it so my outside hope is that someone will look up "Anthony Garcia Drupalcon" and find my profile and contact me. Either way, I'll going to take the sentimental energy I had stored up in that pen and turn it into a lot of Drupal energy.

At the conference, I learned alot of new techniques to do cool things with data and Drupal and visualization, Integrate Drupal with Facebook,  my special interest in Education/Church sites, the business side of Drupal and more. I've met the Drupal luminaries. I especially was star struck by the Lullabot folks. Now, it's time to go back home to apply it. I thought I'd write up an action plan on practical ways I could apply what I've learned in short, medium, and long term ways. I'll put together a list below of things specific to what I am working on rather than made up stuff.