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Harvard Magazine

Ezra — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:44:26 +0000

Harvard Magazine needed an ecommerce solution for selling text advertisements that vary in price according to the content of the text. GVS built an Ubercart payment gateway to support the CyberSource Hosted Order Page API, allowing Harvard to process payments offsite. GVS contributed the payment gateway back to the Ubercart core project, as well as enhancements to the UC_Node_Checkout module that was used to sell the customized advertisements.

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Hyperlocal News Installation profile

Greg — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:25:01 +0000

The Hyperlocal News installation profile is an "internal project" for some of the folks at GVS. Profiles are ways to bundle together Drupal, some contributed modules, and the configuration necessary to make the site actually do something cool. Users are presented with an wizard that sets up their site and does all the configuration necessary to get something to work.

History of the site: Denver's Baker Neigborhood

We originally built this as just a site for us to write about our local neighborhood: Bakernow.com. You can also see it in work on Ice Cream Denver

Releasing the code: thanks Ryan Ornelas

We were contacted about the site by Ryan Ornelas who wanted to use it himself. Ryan was kind enough to sponsor our work releasing the site as an install profile so that not only he but everyone could use it.

Available on Drupal.org

Now the code is available as the hyperlocalnews project on drupal.org where people can download it for free, get support, provide ideas in the issue queue, and provide improvements in the form of patches.

Case study

We have written an in-depth case study of the BakerNow site implementation.

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The Economist

Greg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:28:48 +0000

I (Greg) have been reading the Economist since I was a teenager, so I was quite excited to hear that they were going to be moving to Drupal. Of course, I was even more excited when I got the opportunity to work on the project.

The Economist provides a variety of services, but their most popular one is the very dense newspaper they deliver each week full of insightful articles. As printed media undergoes an enormous change in the age of online delivery, The Economist draws inspiration from the Prospectus and their mission statement to find a purpose:

"To take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy timid ignorance obstructing our progress."

Growing Venture Solutions has engaged with developers at The Economist and many other fine consultants including Cyrve and Four Kitchens. We are working with their scrum teams to build the tools necessary to host a severe contest online. Included in these tools are features that drive at the heart of Drupal: content management, identity, rating, and individually focused customization.

Much of the work is making its way back to the Drupal community. The Views Bulk Operations and Voting API modules have seen some improvements already. The amazing Table Wizard and Migrate modules were vastly improved as a result of their use importing data into the site. As we move beyond the migration stages of the project, we should be able to make even more improvements to Drupal.

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