Site Architecture

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.

MeeGo has come to rely on the COD platform as a cost-effective way to spin up event sites with a familiar set of features, which is then customized for their event, including a dynamic session schedule that supports streaming and personalized attendee schedules.

GVS built the MeeGo Conference site and the Quango Design + Marketing agency contributed the design. The MeeGo project is an active sponsor of the Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) and funded many important early COD features, including initial design and implementation of the schedule view.

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.

CertifiedToRock.com was created to allow community members and employers to get a sense of someone's involvement with the Drupal project.

The Denver Spanish House (DSH) is dedicated to helping people explore the culture of the Spanish-speaking world. They currently offer classes catered to a variety of specialties. The project spans the company's creation in 2006 through the company launch in 2008 and ongoing maintenance.

Arapahoe Community College needed a more flexible and scalable system to manage the content on their growing website which had over 3,000 pages and attachments. They needed a flexible partner who could help their internal web team learn Drupal at the same time as building out specific parts of the site. GVS provided a variety of services over the course of the project.

GVS designed a knowledge management system to reduce work for administrators and improve access to guidelines, processes and procedures at the University Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.