Grouped User and Content Management in D8

OHSU is one of Portland, Oregon's largest employers—a research university and hospital with over 16,000 employees. And not one of those 16,000 employees is part of a centralized content team. This presentation is a case study in finding a technical solution to support decentralized content ownership in a large organization.

Although content creation and management is distributed across OHSU, we control the technology platform, code, and visual design. In 2017, we began to migrate 30K+ pages from a dated CMS to Drupal 8. We had to figure out how to provide some continuity in governance for the 300 contributors who may be responsible for content across a thousand entities. How could we support a decentralized approach to content ownership and avoid a sprawly mess of users, groups, menus, and roles?

We'll cover:

•  The governance model (and lack thereof) that created this challenge

•  Our initial technical architecture and why we didn't go with a multisite approach

•  Why we chose the Group Contrib module and how we customized it

•  The good and bad of this approach

•  How we expect this to grow and change