Slide 1: X PRIZE Foundation
Drupal Case Study
Slide 2: About X PRIZE
• First X PRIZE
– $10 Million Ansari X PRIZE announced in 1996 for first private team to build and launch a spacecraft capable of carrying three people to 100 kilometers above the earth's surface, twice within two weeks. – Won by Burt Rutan and financier Paul Allen on October 4, 2004. – Knowledge & Technology purchased by Richard Branson of Virgin America and now being used by Virgin Galactic to offer the public trips into space.
• Current X PRIZES
– Archon X PRIZE for Genomics - $10 Million to first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days – Google Lunar X PRIZE - $20 million Grand Prize will be awarded to the team that can soft land a craft on the Moon that roams for at least 500 meters and transmits a Mooncast back to Earth. – Progressive Automotive X PRIZE - $10 Million to first team to produce a 100MPG production capable automobile built with specific guidelines.
Slide 3: Drupal was chosen for the following reasons
• Met all the requirements with regards to current and future planned functionality • Could be deployed against requirements in a quick timeframe with limited resources • Provided good performance using caching to handle traffic spikes X PRIZE was prone to • Provided a very flexible platform to customize using standard LAMP stack • Offered great extensibility in the form of modules • Offered a low cost of ownership which is important for a non-profit • Had a strong developer community with continuing support & upgrades
Slide 4: Here’s a high level breakdown of the 4 month deployment plan
• Selection of new datacenter for hosting • Setup & configuration of new servers (1 Production, 1 MySQL, 1 Development) • Installation of Drupal • Creation of templates for migration of existing sites • Drupal configuration
– Creation of content types, categories, & other core setup – Research, installation & configuration of all necessary modules
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Migration of all content from existing sites to Drupal Setup of user roles and access rights Training users on use of Drupal to create content Creation of new Google Lunar X PRIZE site, template, and content
Slide 5: Advanced Drupal Setup
• The reasons we chose this templating method were: • Single admin UI to manage all sites • Avoided duplicating setup for each site • Single sign-on, registration & profile for users to interact on all sites • Single codebase leveraged across all sites • Ability to easily aggregate content to main foundation site using views
Slide 6: GLXP Site
• • • • • GLXP Home 2 views on home page Custom icon prefixes Nav Functions code to link block titles out My Menu using “nice menus” navigation module
Slide 7: Teams Functionality
• Taxonomy Access Control
– Core only provides global “Administer Nodes” access rights
• Granular rights to creating / editing content types
Slide 8: phpBB module for Forum integration
• Intercepts and uses drupal account info • Uses private message module • Profiles link to Drupal profiles
Slide 9: Other Notable Modules Used
• • • • • • • • • • Admin Menu Brilliant Gallery / Lightbox 2 Pathauto Service Links Webform Captcha / Math Captcha Notify TinyMCE IMCE Feed API (soon)
