DrupalCon Chicago 2011 Site

Ezra — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:15:29 +0000

Attendance numbers at DrupalCon conferences have dramatically increased over the past several years, so the non-profit Drupal Association decided to invest in the Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) as a standardized platform for building DrupalCon sites. The Drupal Association hired GVS to add several new features to COD, and support the local DrupalCon Chicago site-building team, staffed by Palantir.net.

The DrupalCon Chicago site features a highly versatile schedule, and a Birds of a Feather (BoF) scheduling tool that allows attendees to self-schedule their own informal sessions into designated slots in the session calendar.

The site also features organizer-curated sessions, as well as session proposals and community voting, to help select additional sessions. Attendees can filter the lists of sessions by Track, Skill level and keywords, and create a personalized schedule of sessions.

One of the site requirements was integration with the RegOnline registration system. GVS built and released the RegOnline API module. While Drupal has great tools for selling tickets and managing attendee data, it's great to have more options for integration with third party services if that is required by a particular event.

Following the success of the DrupalCon Chicago site, future Drupalcon teams are using COD to build the sites for the upcoming London 2011 and Denver 2012 DrupalCon websites.

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KIPP Colorado

evelyn — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:30:17 +0000

The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) is a network of free open-enrollment college preparatory public schools in under-resourced communities throughout the United States. Today there are 82 KIPP schools in 19 states and the District of Columbia serving over 20,000 students. KIPP Colorado has two schools in Colorado with more planned for the future. With their growth and success came the need for a new website to further raise awareness of their mission.

With a beautiful new design in hand from Bainbridge Studios, KIPP needed a Drupal shop to bring it to life. We created the Drupal theme and configured several features, including a rotating photo block on the home page, a newsletter sign up box and an event calendar. We were conscious of setting up the site so that as KIPP opens more schools in the future it will be a simple matter for them to add new pages for those schools.

After the site launched, KIPP sent us this happy news:
"We are thrilled with the site and have already received several online donations as a result of the email that was sent announcing its launch! Thanks so much!"

We have also written an in-depth case study of the KIPP Colorado site.

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DrupalCon Chicago 2011 Site

KIPP Colorado