Broad prosperity. Shared responsibility. Effective government and progress toward a better future. Progressive U has kickstarted and nurtured students (and former students) blogging about progressive issues and creating their own voice in the media since they started as a Bryght Light site back in February 2005.

Thanks to the hard work of the Progressive U team (including founder and publisher Art Morgan) and gentle fostering of the community, Progressive U was an early success for Bryght and continues to thrive so much that others including Inside Bay Area have taken notice.

They have moved to a Bryght Virtual Private Server on our Bryght Hosting platform to accommodate their high traffic and need for extra features to facilitate the conversation on the sites.

We are heartened by their success and asked Art about their use of Drupal.

Art said: "We use many great features of Drupal, and we intend to use even more after we upgrade to Drupal 5.0. In addition to most of the standard features, we use buddylist, invite, nodevote, userpoints, similar, organic groups, tagadelic, and several other contributed modules. Our current theme is based on amadou, and we have received great support from the theme developer on the drupal.org forums. We are constantly amazed by the Drupal community and how everyone helps each other create great sites using open source software. "