LA Drupal September 2008 meeting

When? Tuesday, Sept. 30th, 7pm-9:30pm

Where? RMI Los Angeles located at 525 Venezia Ave., Venice, CA 90291 No RSVP required.

Topics

Using Drupal: Stand Up To Cancer

The wonderful national campaign against cancer uses Drupal for their website, and they even use CCK! Come see how the campaign uses Drupal for the web site and internal organization.

Rain Breaw is the technical supervisor (film industry title that comes closest to "webmaster") of the Stand Up To Cancer website - standup2cancer.org. Launched on May 28, 2008, this website was built for two purposes: 1) to advertise the televised fundraising special that aired on ABC, CBS and NBC on Sept. 5; and 2) to assist the special in its goal of raising millions of dollars for cancer research. SU2C built two major donation-driven interfaces into the website in an effort to increase donations, The Constellation, and the Team Challenge. With a long-term goals of becoming a community environment for those impacted by cancer (everyone), a reporting mechanism for the spending of donation dollars, and a continued donation engine in mind, SU2C also built (and continues to improve) a TV channel, a magazine, a user forum, and other tools into the site.

SU2C's model is to direct 100% of public funds raised to actual cancer research. All labor costs for development of the website and show were underwritten, all tools were donated, and all services were deeply discounted. SU2C initially chose Drupal for its website not out of experience or interest, but because it seemed to be the best affordable option given the extremely limited timeframe SU2C faced (the website was conceived, built and launched in less than 5 months). While Drupal made it possible to launch this complex site in a short period of time, the limited experience of the various parties involved in this project led to unique challenges.

Rain (www.rainbreaw.com) is an independent film director/producer and co-founder of the web and internet media development company, SunRain Productions (www.sunrainproductions.com). Stand Up To Cancer is a detour in Rain's career of which she is quite proud.

Tales from DrupalCamp LA 2008

Come talk about what you learned at DrupalCampLA this month. Did you find new modules that you love now? Did you learn good tips on themes? If you didn't attend then this recap talk will be worth your time.

Plus...

In addition to our presentation(s) of the night we have open-mic opportunities for those who have general Drupal questions or need help, time for those who are hiring or looking for consultants, upcoming Drupal training announcements, raffle prizes for attendees, and as always, the end of the meeting networking session with the fun and knowledgeable LA Drupal crowd.

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