I do think that Movember's really hit a critical mass this year and this is the first year that OpenConcept's team has participated. It's a goofy thing to do with a group of men.  One thing I can say for sure, everyone seems to have an opinion about mustaches. It's been a significant shift for some of us as two of our team shaved off their beards to begin November 1st clean shaven. Fortunately, November's been a pretty warm month so far.

Our 'stache team is Jesse, Jason, Pawel, Eddie, Dutchy & myself. There are many other Drupal developers who have signed on as well Drupal 7 Accessibility Maintainer Everett Zufelt, long time Drupal greats like Boris Mann, other Drupal shops like Affinity Bridge, and best of all Dries & Acquia. This is a fun campaign that has certainly captured the attention of a lot of people and those behind it need your support $$.

Funds raised in Canada go to both Prostate Cancer Canada & the Movember Foundation and all to projects which seem to focus on research about curing cancer. I'd like to see this money be used to do more than just research a cure.  It should be supporting groups like the Prostate Cancer Canada Network Ottawa (a great Drupal 7 site btw) that are working to support survirors of prostate cancer and their families. I'd also like to see funding go to the research and advocacy for the causes of cancer. We live in an age where there known carcinogens which are still being added to our environment and new chemicals are being introduced every year without proper testing. The fight for the cure should not be preceeding the investigation about the cause. 

However, the call "to change the face of men's health" is really quite brilliant on a number of levels.  Men really haven't been raised to make our health a priority. Most of us, and I'm no exception, haven't gone for a physical for years, so finding a way to encourage and reward men for having an annual health check is a great thing.