Purpose
The event website is one of the most important and laborious tasks associated with producing a quality Drupal event. For some events, the website is the main application that helps organize and build the entire experience from collecting session submissions to assigning presentations to the schedule.
The Drupal Event Platform (DEP) committee within the Drupal Event Organizers Working Group (EOWG) is looking to reduce the time and resources it takes to create an event website site through the creation of a flexible and customizable website starter kit for event organizers.
- Event Platform Project
- 2022/23 Project Status
- Event Platform Demo Video
- Sites using the DEP (comment on #3365632: Keep list of Events Platform users to have your site added here):
Goals
- Focus the website creation efforts of event organizers on a single open source platform to reduce duplication of efforts
- Create an MVP (minimal viable product) that can meet the needs of at least 80% of Drupal events globally
- Reach and maintain adoption by at least 40% of all Drupal events globally
- Model for Drupal best practices including accessibility, usability, inclusive design, documentation, security, performance, and internationalization
- Provide an extensible, modular platform that allows event organizers to choose to use default functionality or build custom components
Meeting Times
We will be meeting on Zoom on the 4th Tuesday of Every month at 2pm ET
- Zoom Link Meeting - Use this link to join our Monthly DEP Committee Meeting
- Drupal Event Organizer's Google Calendar Add the Drupal Event Organizers calendar to see all of the meeting dates and times for all EOWG Meetings
Call for Volunteers
The DEP committee is currently looking for 5-7 volunteers to lead the development of the starter kit. This is a great opportunity to contribute back to the Drupal community on a highly visible and impactful project.
The commitment for participating will be to attend the monthly meetings and complete assigned tasks in a timely fashion, approximately 2-6 hours per month.
To ensure we have a well-rounded team we are looking for volunteers to fill the following roles.
Accessibility Specialist
Accessibility is a must for any website, but particularly so for websites serving the Drupal community. We seek volunteers with previous experience with accessibility best practices and testing to lead our accessibility efforts.
Backend Developer
We seek volunteers with experience building Drupal 8/9 websites using best practices. Volunteers should be comfortable with custom module development, Composer, and configuration management..
Designer
Many Drupal event teams don’t have design resources to devise a custom design for their event website so it is important that the out-of-the-box design be suitable for use by many Drupal event websites. We are looking for a volunteer designer to produce a style guide and mockups (low and high fidelity) for the default DEP theme.
Documentation and Training Specialist
Establishing clear guidelines and instructions are critical for adoption, particularly because Drupal event organizers may not have experience creating websites. We are looking for someone who enjoys going through different site-building scenarios and writing easy to understand documentation for event organizers.
Front-End Developer
We are looking for volunteers who have a solid grasp on Drupal site building, Twig templating, and modular CSS frameworks like SASS to implement the design for DEP’s default theme in Drupal 9.
Multilingual Specialist
As Drupal is a global project with events all over the world, we are looking for a volunteer with experience building multilingual websites in Drupal 8/9 to lead our efforts to ensure that DEP is usable by events anywhere in the world.
