SoberFolk.Org is a online AA Clubhouse dedicated to the recovering community.

SoberFolk.org is a Joomla based internet site. Joomla is an open source software system developed by people and groups around the world. There are thousands of plug ins to this system developed by different companies and individuals all over the world. We have tried to select the best of these for our purposes. We probably have over a dozen installed. The most significant of these is JomSocial a reasonably priced commercially sold product. Additionally there are plug in to this JomSocial system as well some of these are free some are sold. Almost all of these software systems continue to be developed and enhanced so each of them must be updated on a regular basis. So keeping all of this held together and moving in the right direction is the responsibility of Subikar and his team of developers and designers at ITCSlive.com

our thought page: http://www.soberfolk.org/thoughts.html

There are literally thousands of products that work with Joomla. Sometimes when we need a given function we have to check out hundreds before we find one that does exactly what we want for today’s problem but also for the future. There are many systems that have been installed on this site that we are not currently using because of the effort that it will take to populate the databases for those systems and incorporate them into the site. We have big plans for the future, but we try and live a day at a time.

This site has been under development for a long time but only went live less than nine months ago. Since then our membership has gone from 0 to 6,000. We couldn’t have done that without the very hard work of all of Subikar and all of the people at ITCSlive.com If you are interested in building your own social networking site please feel free to contact me or Subikar and we will be happy to explain how we put this together and why we made the decisions that we did. My strongest recommendation would be to hire Subikar and his team to implement your site.

The ideas behind this site were developed 15 years ago when I started another social networking site called Digital Democrats. That was back in the early 90’s. When I started that site my first major supporter was Theo G. Her support and encouragement allowed me to launch that site. Later in that effort I was joined by a partner James B. whose dedication and vision allowed us to build that site to the point that we had 50,000 members. The ideas for this site were taken entirely from that experience. So I dedicate this site to Theo G and James B and their foresight.

our meeting page: http://www.soberfolk.org/meetings.html

Digital Democrats was extremely expensive to build without James’ generosity it would not have happened. The cost of our monthly computer systems alone were prohibitive. Every function that we had was built by hand. While there were application generators they were very crude by today’s standards and the problems were overwhelming. The email coming in because of problems etc was swamping us. So when I started this operation my objective was to find a public domain version of all of the tools that we needed so that we could modify existing software. The amount of money that James spent in that great cause was massive. But this site could not have been built without the lessons that we learned from that effort. So for that reason James is the father of this operation as well.

for more information please visit here : http://www.soberfolk.org/