Open Berkeley: Small Team Solves Big Problems
In a world where...
- Your mammoth organization requires consistently-configured and branded websites
- Your customers demand power and ease of use
- Sites must be secure, high-performing, and designed with business continuity in mind
- Accessibility is paramount
- Disparate user requirements conflict with organizational standards
- Budget woes threaten to strangle you and your customers
- Bureaucracy lurks around every corner
- You’re from the government, but you really are here to help
How can one small team achieve big results?
Spoiler alert! Answers include:
- Stay flexible
- Use proven Drupal resources as your foundation
- Automate
- Focus on usability
- Create strategic partnerships
- Manage up
This session is the story of how a small group of underdogs created a highly effective and sought-after product for use in a slow-moving organization. It is a tale of harnessing Drupal passion to create a product that satisfies user needs, business needs, and the myriad policies and regulations of a large public university.
Our heroes built on existing code and vendor services to provide UC Berkeley with a custom Drupal-based website solution -- and contributed work back to the Drupal community at the same time.
The Open Berkeley distribution bakes in security and accessibility best practices alongside powerful content-authoring and layout tools that are easily managed by non-technical communications professionals. Come learn the details of this solution designed to scale and adapt to a constantly changing organizational landscape.