Drupal
I have been determined to learn how to use Drupal for several years now. The Drupal experience can be broken into three groups of understanding. The development or software writing, the design and layout, and the end user administration. It's possible to be all three of these at once, but generally someone is a mixture of these three at varying degrees. Drupal is an infinitely flexible infrastructure; it can literally function as any form of media; from phone system, message system, application framework, financial system, etc. And further, it can be all these at the same time, interwoven at the core. This is a far cry from the systems we work with today, where everything has a separate nexus of it's own, which leaves humans as the transit between systems which are often sitting on the same desk in front of us. Is the system the boss of us? or are we the boss of the system?

Social Programs
A few years after I discovered Drupal, I took leave from being a somewhat uninspired freelance graphic designer to work at Catholic Charities here in silicon valley. Take a look at their web page, it's a relic from the 90's. I'd been involved with their communications effort loosely as a freelancer and I was starting to see the potential of Drupal to integrate systems from every part of an organization, and not just a webpage or public media stuff. So I decided I would switch gears and help run their Shared Housing Program. We simply helped people make matches in houses to share costs therefore creating affordable housing from existing unaffordable housing.
The system consisted of a small staff meeting in person the people interested in finding a place to share. All the information was held by the staff in paper files, It was literally a box of 3x5 cards in it's early days, and went on at it's steady pace for over 20 years.
Digital
Enter Craigslist. That link allows anyone with access to a computer to find shared housing on their own, making the shared housing program's system functionally obsolete. With cost of living as high as it is, it doesn't make sense to pay a few people a lot of money to produce a fraction of the outcome that people looking for shared housing can collectively do on their own at Craigslist.
However the Shared Housing Program still has the distinct advantage of being a human third party in the process which gives some people a huge amount of security, and I agree 100%.
Drupal House
I believe that we could have challenged that area of Craigslist if we blended our 'humanness' with their information technology. And I looked for it in 'Drupalizing' houses and educating the co-inhabitants to administer the system. This would not only become the match making process, but a drupal system would afford all kinds of sharing applications; like food sharing, car sharing, collective child care, etc. I believe it could literally create a functional widespread sharing economy.
As I began discovering these ideas, I started to think that if people were going to invest a substantial amount of their being in a drupal system, there could be a much more fundamental importance to the infrastructure.
Ecological Architecture
What if we used this shared space living environment as an opportunity to develop economy in the inefficiently used spaces of single family houses and small apartment complexes? We need to upgrade our current fossil fuel dependent infrastructure anyway, and I believe it is in small suburban structures that we can best learn the principles of passive solar design at a personal and cooperative level, while developing a business model that fosters "green" products and infrastructure improvements to proliferate.

My focus is studying the Open Source Software community's "pragmatic methodology" and ground up creation processes to find functional correlations with it's process to the collective redesign/rebuilding of single family homes with ecological principles. A collaboratively maintained communications architecture and the collaborative design and rebuilding our structures could help each process flourish in unison in an exciting new economic model and redevelopment process.