Paid Drupal services

Hi, I run a vbulletin community and have installed vbdrupal. My integrated drupal blogs area is working well so far:

http://www.apug.org/forums/content

I would like a site that basically enables users to 1. rate a venue (1 to 5 stars) 2. upload venue pictures.

Additional functionality should include:
search capability
user profile page
advanced forum
SEO friendly URLS and title/meta tags
report inappropriate posts to admin
"yes/no" found the user rating helpful.

I'm wanting to create an interactive sports website using drupal software. I know how to configure the software and install modules, but I need someone to design a theme. Doesn't have to be incredible, but must be sharp.

What can you do and how much do you charge?

Thanks,

Jason Parker

Non-Profit Media Arts Center

Accepting in-Kind Donations of Software Development

Help Save the Artists Before it's Too Late!

911 Media Arts Center (www.911media.org ) is a
22-year-old Seattle non-profit supporting digital media artists. Our members
are filmmakers, installation artists, audio outlaws and new media
experimenters.

We Are Building a New Website Using Drupal and we need help to finish off
the remaining technical tasks. Many of us are volunteers who want to help
out but don't have the technical skills. Our staff is busy creating an
amazing community of artists and they need our help. They need tools!

We have created the information architecture, the design, the content and we
have 22 years worth of video, stills, audio and tons & tons of amazing art.
We want to share it with the world. We've built the basic site.

But, alas, we need Software Development Assistance!

Specifically, we need a digital hero who can provide mad skills such as:

- PHP

- MySQL

- Automated equipment rentals - we have it designed, Drupal has
great tools but we need to tweak 'em a little

- Discounts and varied pricing for our Workshops. We have taught
hundreds of independent media artists who sign up for our classes. Members
get discounts. Again, Drupal has great tools, but we need some tweaks to

We are seeking an experienced web developer (or team) to plan and build a hot new “Web 2.0” application. The web app will run on it's own URL, parallel to our “web 1.0” content website.

Relevant skills and experience that would be useful / required / to-be-acquired are:

• the design, construction and usage of;
• Website APIs
• Web apps
• Databases
• Usage of CMSs
• AJAX
• HTML to print formats (PDF, ODF, DOC)
• “Web 2.0”
• Standards & Best Practices

Integration

This application will be integrated, and developed in parallel, with our primary content website and it's CMS. The two websites would likely be integrated at the levels of user management/authentication, ACL, templating, search, and other aspects where the CMS provides an appropriate and efficient framework for the application to build upon. Users will be common between the two websites.

CMS

Our preferred CMS is drupal. Therefore we prefer the application to be built using php and MySQL. Therefore experience with drupal's APIs would also be a big plus. At this early stage we are open to other possibilities and suggestions for CMS, if that will benefit the integration of the content and application websites.

Functionality

The web application will draw content from a range of different sources. Primarily, and initially from our own content website, and users' clipboards via copy/paste. In the future, content will also be drawn from other content websites and other sources via the API. (There will be opportunities to develop these for the winner of this contract. Experience developing extensions for Internet Explorer and Firefox would be appropriate.)

In the initial version of the application, that you are quoting on, there would be approximately;

• 10 views, all with a significant amount of AJAX
• 3 main objects
• One is highly dependant on the CMS, with very few actions/methods in the application
• One has about 3 common methods/actions, plus a couple related to converting html to print formats
• The last object has several more complex methods/actions that will be key to the features of the site and the API
• The API will initially only receive incoming content and transmit basic information, like statuses, authentication and small option lists.

Planning and cooperation

A more complete specifications document of the application's features and requirements will be available after signing a non-disclosure agreement. Your ideas, creativity, and suggestions will help finalize the details and specifications in tandem with our user-experience team and technical staff. We will be involved in the code-planning and testing stages of the application.

What to quote on

The user experience design, graphic design, and xhtml/css templates will be done in-house. Qoute on the software development and support only. Our content site will be done entirely in house with an “out-of-the-box” CMS. (However you will need to provide examples and support for the integration of the application into the content website, via the API or other 'hooks' in the application).

Code and Quality

It is important that code is clean, highly scalable, and well documented, so that it can be analyzed, debugged, and modified in-house or by other developers working on related project(s). We will require an example script that will set your quality standard to be quality-controlled by us.

We support and promote open source technology, standards, and best-practices. Elements of the application may be released as open-source via the appropriate methods at our discretion.

Support and future projects

Your quote should include a three-month extendible support period that allows for bug-fixes, completion of incomplete documentation, and any other issues that may arise after the completion of the project.

We will adopt a continual product improvement policy. So there will be opportunities for further development and support of the software, and other software to be integrated.

Other notes

We are in New Zealand, and geographic/timezone proximity would be a bonus, but is definitely not essential.

A no-compete clause will be required.

Please register your interest by sending an email to technical@calmer.co.nz, or you may apply through oDesk.

I am in search of a consultant, or service, to help me primarily upgrade my production Drupal installation. I have several caveats that prevent me from doing this myself.

Firstly, the site has grown much larger than I have expected and would need the support of a professional service who as done this before. I would need my site upgraded from 4.6.3 assumably to 4.6.9 and then up to 4.7.x. I have several modules that I am reliant on, and would need help upgraded them too.