Looking for drupal developer in Boston

The Jewish Women's Archive has launched its first drupal sub-sites (http://jwablog.jwa.org, http://birthday.jwa.org for two that are public) and is looking for help to get to the next level. In particular, this winter we want to convert the main site to Drupal (http://www.jwa.org ). We also have begun to enter the current century with our latest online collecting project (not Drupal), http://katrina.jwa.org.

Most of the current site is written using static html and is entombed in pre-current-century html tables. Over the next couple years we want to standardize the codebase, focusing on a css-only layout, rethink the overall site layout, and add a host of new services on selected sections, starting with geography-based queries (using either the google or yahoo map apis), tagging, comments, and other site personalization.

First, we want to move all current static content into Drupal. Much (most?) content will be normalized. Controlled access areas will be set up. Older applications written in Java (jsp), which talk to an old Oracle database will be left for a future phase (we're not ready to re-architect that database). Some especially gnarly usability messes (http://www.jwa.org/teach/bestpractices/ ) may be fixed at this stage, or at a later date, depending on what scope fits available time and current budget. We may also be looking for a Drupal equivalent of Fez (a php-based front end to Fedora digital repository--not Fedora the Red Hat project), a parallel project which is also getting underway.

If any of this interests you, and you have a deep enough understanding of PHP and especially Drupal to help us understand where the Drupal affordances lie and how to best architect to take advantage of Drupal, we'd love to hear from you.

Ari Davidow
adavidow@jwa.org