This page is a group-editable wiki containing descriptions of the Snowman test sites that are being built during the 1-month R&D phase. If you're working on one of these sites, edit this page and post information about it below. Include a descriptive title, your username, a summary of the specific 'User story' that you're building for, and the URL of a demo site if available.
Foodie club - eaton
Members of Nosh, a local foodie club, meet every week or two to try out an area restaurant; trade recipes and cooking tips; and to socialize. They were previously using Meetup.com to organize, but quite a few members are frustrated that there's no good place to leave their write-ups of the restaurants, or save the recipes shared at the meetup. Dave, one of the newest members, already has an account on a hosting service that lets him install Drupal. He offers to install it and host the group's site!
Demo site: Example.com
Small NGO - Jeff Burnz
Human Rights Libya Group (HRLG) is a small NGO based in Sweden. The purpose of the group is to raise human rights awareness in Sweden and to provide funds and resources for several groups working in Libya. The website needs to have a discussion forum, news, a simple information page for each group and a sitewide contact form. If possible they would like a way of accepting public donations - PayPal would be OK. The sites primary language will be English, however some pages will need to be in more than one language (Arabic, Swedish, English). Occasionally they would like to embed videos in news and forum posts - these are normally hosted on a private account at Vimeo. None of the members are web geeks and in general computing skills don't extend much beyond word processing, email and managing the facebook page. The boyfriend of one of the groups members has built a few Drupal sites and offers to knock something up, but doesn't want to be involved long term.
Demo site (currently offline)
Collaborative Album - agentrickard
The Johnson family is virtually documenting their history. They have lots of old photos and memorabilia that the younger generation has no connection to. Many family photos contain people and places that need to be identified.. Members of the family can upload photos for comment, create linear photo albums (using Book module), and link photos to personal stories using field references. The site will feature simple navigation to upload and share photos and personal stories, user profile pages to enable connections, and the ability to tag pages with both concepts (using free-tagging) or with other site members. The family has no tech experts, but someone has access to Drupal installer on a shared host and has heard about this install profile from a friend.
The intent is a simple shared site where groups of people (such as DrupalCON attendees) can create and share histories as a small community. Works for families or any other group. Targeted at people who want a little privacy for their photo sharing. (Anonymous users will be able to see photos and comments by default, however; the install profile setup wizard could alter that behavior).
I will probably build the demo site using Flickr photos from DC Chicago. (A long as they are Creative Commons.)
Demo site: TBD
Local Farmer's Market - Carolyn
A local farmer's market needs a website to share basic info such as hours and location, and to advertise what foods will be in season and available at the market each week. There are about 10 to 20 farms represented. The farmers need a way to get community members aware of and invested in seasonal foods. To this end, the producers give out recipes for seasonal foods and would like community members to share such recipes with each other as well. One of the organizers of the market, Joe, offers to start a website with Drupal on shared hosting.
Demo site: Soon
Political Run
Local politician is running for office and political manager enlists eager, technically proficient talent to build out a social site to help build voter base.
The politician and manager understands the power of social technology to reaching out to the community, but just "wants it to work". Using both development and artistic talent a site is to be built that will allow interaction of the community, from photos and blog posts to questions and answers. The end users on both sides, the community and the politician both will have no clue what a "Drupal" is. They both have expectations on how the site should work intuitively.
The tech and artistic talent decide on a Drupal install so that they can rapidly roll out a small community reach-out site.
Work at Jelly - Matt Farina (mfer)
The Drupal site would be to coordinate a local Work at Jelly group. It would communicate when and where an event would be happening as well as coordinate on finding locations and times. Additionally, one off times and places where people come together and want to communicate what they are doing can happen through the site as a way to invite others to join them.
Demo site: Soon
Comicdrop - bastlynn
A wecomic artist has a great story to tell and the art to go with it but no website to get his work to his audience. He's used Wordpress and Comicpress before on another webcomic but didn't like how Comicpress updates would blow away his custom theme and artwork on any update. He also didn't like the comment system that came with Comicpress and had to install PHPBB to give his community a place to talk. He wants a site that gets his art up quickly so he can get an audience started that doesn't split his audience across multiple venues, a site that lets him do a custom theme (he has some minor experience with Wordpress themes) without being worried about upgrades destroying all his hard work. And he'd like some room to grow - if the comic really takes off, he'll need spam handling and a store front and maybe some ways to integrate his twitter and facebook feeds - so some directions on where to get more features would come in handy.
Demo site: http://comicdrop.unpretentiousmonkey.com
Next step: Live fire. I will be contacting a short list of webcomic artists to ask them to give the profile a test drive re: usability and ease of configuration.
A Family Site - cghobbs
A family wants a website where they can post news, events, and photos related to the goings on of the extended family. It's setup by a woman in her mid-forties. She know how to use a computer and sites like facebook very well, but doesn't know how to write HTML. She's setting this up because her parents and her siblings are spread out across the country and they need a better way to keep in touch. They are considering using myfamily.com but it has a yearly free. She's heard of Drupal, knows its free, and know someone who could spend a couple hours helping her set it up (but not much more time than that). Being able to upload and share photos, family news, and upcoming events are the most important things to her. Oh, and her parents are in their 70's and they need to be able to use it too!
Demo site: Soon
"SnowMaker" Local DIY/Maker Community - Grayside
The local DIY/Maker hobbyists in the town of Heterodyne are interested in moving their email conversations and cafe fliers to a website. They want a place where they can pick each other's brains, post tutorials, keep a project log, announce their demo gatherings and regional maker fairs, and create some media-heavy posts recapping cools demos and happenings at the events.
Demo site: Soon
NPO - dalin
A small non-profit organization needs a website to list staff, projects, news, and a way for people to contact them.
http://snownpo.communit.ca/
http://drupal.org/sandbox/dalin/1102398
Small Community Festival Site
A small non-profit organization needs a website to promote their community event/Festival online and to built a social online platform for all the community members to share and get in touch and a way for people to contact them.
Example:
http://talabarowari.co.in/
Small Art Studio Collective - yoroy.
I built a small site for the local print studio (http://www.gaghilversum.nl). A non-profit organisation run by artist. About 25 members, more than 1000 people (mostly school kids) each year come to do workshops or courses. The sites first objective was to get a decent brochureware site up and running. Home, news, about, facilities, courses, contact.
Now, I'd like to use the same site to facilitate some simple private communication between the 25 members. It's a loose collective and not everybody is always in the loop on what's happening: preparing exhibitions, courses and other events and also updates on new materials & tools. So this is kind of a reverse Snowman scenario: Starting with a public site, looking to add member-specific communication channels. Main issue I'm running into is I want to use core forum for the members discussion but can't seem to make those bits private (since responses there are comments just like the comments that are made to public news posts). Access control is my main stumbling block in the core-only scenario.
Demo site: http://www.gaghilversum.nl