CiviCRM Installation Notes
CiviCRM is installed in our main hosting order, under the subdirectory "crew/".
We're using the drupal version of civicrm, since drupal civi has some useful plugins for political organizations. Drupal was installed via the mf/pl control panel.
crew is under git source control. ~/masspirates.org/include/git/crew.git is a bare repository, and the master copy.
For themes
drush pm-download zen drush pm-enable zen
I haven't done any theme customization yet.
Additional modules installed
pathauto token
Installed civicrm, according to instructions at http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Drupal+Installation+Guide+for+CiviCRM+4.5+-+Drupal+7
I told civicrm's installer to use a different database than drupal itself. You'll see this database listed in the MFPL control panel. Rationale for using a different database: if we need to do any kind of non-civicrm drupal development, it would be nice to do this without dragging civi data into a local development environment.
Configuration checklist.