Drupal is community website software, not really productivity software. But sometimes a client wants to add some productivity tools in.

The National Union of Teachers is the UK's largest teaching union with over 250,000 members. Synergy has helped the union organise it's officers using a Drupal 4.7 installation.

Synergy already provides an email service for NUT officers - so we decided to integrate email straight into Drupal.

Ernesto Leal was arrested on May 1st, taken from his home and sent to Belmarsh high security Prison where he was kept on a 23 hour lockdown, to await a deportation hearing. After 7 days he was moved to to Forest Bank HMP in Manchester where he was incarcerated for nearly a month.

He was imprisoned as part of The Home Office round up of foreign criminals, a week before the elections in England, as what has been described as 'politically motivated' and 'a knee jerk reaction to electoral pressures'. He was served with deportation papers.

Within 2 hours of hearting of Ernesto's arrest, Fabriko had a campaigning website up and running. The site attraced well over 400 registered users within a week. The campaign, run by Ernesto's family, gained the support of individuals, Members of Parliament, trades unions and other organisations.