DrupalCon Singapore Splash Awards

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Celebrating Outstanding Drupal Websites

Welcome to the first-ever DrupalCon Splash Awards in Singapore! Join us for an unforgettable night of recognition, inspiration, and celebration as we honour the best Drupal projects across the Asia and Asia Pacific region. 

The Splash Awards are a prestigious institution within the Drupal community, designed to showcase and celebrate outstanding websites and digital experiences built with Drupal. These awards highlight the creativity, technical excellence, and innovative solutions that Drupal agencies and developers bring to diverse industries and challenges.

Typically held in various countries, the Splash Awards have now reached Asia for the first time, integrated with DrupalCon Singapore. This exciting event brings together the best Drupal projects from across the region, offering a unique platform for recognition on an international stage.

⭐️ A night of Drupal Stars

When: 5:15PM Monday December 9, 2024
Where: DrupalCon Singapore! Inside the Garden Ballroom at PARKROYAL Collection Marina Bay

Attendance is open to any DrupalCon Singapore ticket holders.

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How to Create an Award-Winning DrupalCon Singapore Splash Awards Submission

For agencies and website developers, the Awards provide a unique opportunity to showcase your work and receive recognition for your team. Previous winners have told us that the ability to market their business as an "Award winning Drupal agency" and to demonstrate their qualifications helps them to win more work. Perhaps even more valuable is the stronger bond it creates between the agency and their client, who also receives recognition for their hard work. 

The Award Ceremony itself is a gala event with our hosts and nominees encouraged to dress up in black tie for the best possible photos when receiving their certificates and trophies. This year, we're happy to confirm that the "Best in Show" award will be announced by Dries himself! 

To enter, you must submit your website via before closing on September 27. To explain the submission and judging process, we encourage you to join us on September 6 when the Splash Awards Singapore organisers will be hosting an webinar to explain the submission and judging process and to answer any questions you might have about the Awards.

If you missed the webinar, you can watch the recording below.

Categories and Criteria

The DrupalCon Singapore Splash Awards welcomes two different types of projects: "Drupal Websites and Digital Experiences", and "Open Source Drupal Projects".

Drupal Websites and Digital Experiences

The best and brightest Drupal websites are recognised in six separate categories:

  • Government
  • Publishing
  • Not for Profit
  • Education
  • Design / UX
  • Corporate

Each entry is then assessed by an independent panel of judges who assign a score in one of five criteria:

Concept - The plan behind the website. 

Is the concept clear, unique and consistently implemented? Does the website tell a clear story? Does the chosen strategy and the final elaboration of the product fit the objectives that served as the starting point of the project? 

Design and Accessibility - Everything that is visible for the end user, including UX, motion and visual design on both desktop and mobile. Judges will be looking for a design that is of a high quality, fits the target audience and supports the message that needs to be conveyed. Accessibility is also a key element in the consideration process. 

Technology - Websites should be assessed for their speed and whether they function properly. In this criteria, the Drupal application is also being considered: has the build followed Drupal standards? Is the implementation innovative? Integrations with third party systems is also considered. For judges who know how, feel free to run Lighthouse scores and other synthetic user tests to measure technical efficiency. 

Business case - In this criteria we are looking for a positive business outcome for the website. Has the website increased sales, lowered costs, and provided a better brand experience? Do the analytics from the site show that the goals have been achieved or even exceeded?

Community value - Drupal is an open source platform and owes its existence to the community behind it. All submissions will be judged on the value the website returns to this community. This could be code, for example modules published on Drupal.org, but also indirect contributions, such as spectacular case study and well-known brands that use Drupal which contribute to marketing Drupal.

Open Source Drupal Projects

A special category just for open source projects such as modules, Camps, distributions, and any other effort by members of the community designed to make Drupal a more attractive and useful option for it's users. 

Entries in the Open Source category are assessed on five different criteria:

Problem - How significant is the problem this project is trying to solve? How ambitious are the project leaders? Judges could award a higher score for a project that solves a big problem for a small group of people, or a project that solves a small problem for a very large number of people. Projects that solve a problem for an underrepresented group of people (ie, accessibility, language) should receive special consideration. 

Presentation and Marketing - Does the project communicate its goals effectively? Really great open source solutions that nobody knows about don’t help as many people as they could. Higher scores are awarded for projects that do a good job of communicating with their intended audience by clearly explaining what they’re trying to do, and making a serious effort to always reach out to the community to raise awareness.

Community Activity - Does the project enjoy contribution and engagement from non-maintainers? Open source projects thrive when a new crop of interested people decide to get involved and contribute to the project as well. You could award higher scores based on how effectively the project maintainers engage with their community and encourage contribution, as well as how active that community is. One key test here will be how many users just ask for help, vs how many users help other users without the maintainers being directly involved. 

Support - How actively do the maintainers support the project? Are the project maintainers consistently and reliably involved in answering support requests from their community? Is the documentation thorough and up-to-date? Are there nice touches like tutorial videos, conference presentations, and other efforts made consistently to help users of the project get more out of it? 

Quality and Consistency - Does the project show the best that Drupal can offer? Quality metrics can vary depending on the type of entry here. Code quality might work for some, but not others. Instead, judges consider if the project is built/delivered to a high standard without any rough edges or clearly unfinished areas. Bonus consideration for projects that have a published roadmap that is delivered against. 

Conditions of Entry

Before submitting your entry to the DrupalCon Singapore Splash Awards, please note the following conditions of entry:

  1. The DrupalCon Singapore Splash Awards is only available to organisations in the Asia and Asia Pacific regions. This means:
    1. For websites: they must be developed for organisations primarily operating inside the Asia and Asia Pacific regions. Developers and agencies who live or work outside of Asia and the Asia Pacific region can submit if their client is inside the region. 
    2. For open source projects: the key maintainer(s) of the project must live and work in the Asia and Asia Pacific regions. 
  2. You must have the approval of the site owner to enter them into the Awards
  3. In each category, up to 4 nominees will be selected. From these four nominees, we will announce one winner and one runner up at the end of Day 1 of DrupalCon Singapore
  4. An agency or developer may make not more than 2 submissions in any individual category, but may make any number of submissions across all categories. This includes submissions made from subsidiaries or affiliated organisations.
  5. Submissions who are not shortlisted as nominees are not permitted to use any Splash Awards collateral or marketing materials.
  6. Submissions must be live and public websites which are expected to remain online for at least one year after the award ceremony. Judges will not review websites which are not finished yet. 
  7. Each entry must be accessible to the judges and the general public. Intranets and sites behind firewalls and passwords cannot be judged fairly and as such are not eligible.
  8. If a category receives fewer than 4 submissions, it may be removed from the event.
  9. To avoid the appearance of any conflict of interest, any organisation which directly sponsors the award ceremony may not make any submissions.
  10. Drupal Asia Steering Committee members and DrupalCon Singapore event volunteers are not permitted to influence or alter the voting outcomes for any category, other than to disqualify the votes of any judging panel member found to have an undisclosed conflict of interest.  
  11. Sites which are submitted do not need to be in English, but it will be harder for judges to evaluate your submission if they do not speak that language. We encourage you to submit links to English translations/versions of the site where possible.
  12. Previous winners and nominees of the DrupalSouth Splash Awards are allowed to enter as this is a separate award show covering the entire Asia and Asia Pacific region
  13. Final scores are tabulated by the planning team and are not published
  14. Any judge who is found to have breached confidentiality or an undisclosed conflict of interest will be removed from the panel and their votes voided.