Is this a module or an install profile?

Yeah, this should likely be moved to an install profile.

We have a collection of custom modules that we have written for NYSenate.gov which we are planning to release here once we've cleaned up the code a bit. Some of them are just "glue" modules that have very specific application to our website, but the goal is to develop them for more general use. I started this project mostly to have a placeholder for the nyss namespace, which I doubt that anyone else would want to claim anyway. I've recently posted a couple of individual modules outside the "nyss" namespace and will try to steer future development in that direction, but I think we will have some "nyss_" modules that we'll want to release here also.