The last few years have seen non-profit creative and educational organisations embrace the web in reaching out to their members and the larger public. Part and parcel of this development has been the maturing of a group of technologies and tools which lend themselves to building truly community-based websites, which are functional, flexible and accessible to all people on whatever device they may use to connect to the internet.

At the very centre of this trend is the 'Open Source' movement, which represents both an ethical attitude and an approach to web technology, i.e. not only should websites be community-based - whatever that means - but the tools and content should come from the community and have no artificial proprietary restrictions placed on their use.

Drupal was born and has evolved – both as software and a global community. It is now “the” content management framework of choice for leading non-profits and social sector organisations, who also contribute mightily to the ongoing design and development of Drupal.

At F2S we're pro 'open-source'. We build our CMS websites in Drupal and so take a participatory role in Drupal's collective intelligence. We draw on and contribute to the open source movement!