Building The Site

Initially there are 3 default roles: unauthenticated users, authenticated users, and the admin role. Unauthenticated users can read content and that's about it. Authenticated users can add comments. Admins can do everything.

Like on a UNIX system, I don't work in admin/root if I can help it. I'll temporarily escalate my privileges to perform whatever task is needed, then I get out. This is so I don't accidentally break things in big ways. This is also why you don't bless your own account with super-user privileges.

The first attempt to launch disastercommohio.org wasn't much of a success. My career got in the way and our host organization was going through a lot of personnel changes.
Time has passed, I'm in a new role at the day job, and this frees up a lot of my evenings and weekends now. The main project that we've been working on is maturing and if not self-sufficient, there are new participants that are moving it forward.