Drupal O: Websites ready to go out-of-the-box for campaigns, non-profits and small businesses

Track: 
Implementation and Config
Experience: 
Beginner

Drupal O is an installation profile for making websites that are ready to go out-of-the-box and easy to manage without prior Drupal or website experience. With Drupal O, webmasters never have to post the same thing twice. No knowledge of nodes, blocks or views required.

If you need to make a website that is (a) easy to get up and running fast, (b) maintained by people by people with little or no website experience, (c) tailored for campaigns and legislative offices, or (d) easy to customize for nonprofits and small businesses, this session is for you.

This session will tell you everything you need to know to get up and running with Drupal O.

Intended audience: 

campaigners
organizers
elected officials
small and medium-sized non-profits
small businesses
website administrators and configurators
module developers

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
1. Can I really build and launch a respectable website in 2 hours with Drupal O? (Yes.)
Question 2: 
2. Do you have a checklist of all the different pieces I need to get started? (Yes.)
Question 3: 
3. Is it easy to sign people up for my e-newsletter? (Yup.)
Question 4: 
4. What about integrating Facebook and Twitter with my website? (Quick and easy.)
Question 5: 
5. How do I enable/disable features for press releases, news clips, videos and slideshows? (We’ll show you.)
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Comments

Code

I'd like to see the distribution released to the community before wanting to attend a session like this. Is it possible to release this distribution before the conference (and hopefully before session voting closes, so I can give this a better vote).

Yes! Download the code here...

Yes. Thanks for asking. Download here:
http://starswithstripes.org/download

Here are some additional resources you may find useful...

Demo website (please log in and try creating a news clip or other types of content):
log in here: http://drupalo.starswithstripes.org/user
user: demo
pass: demo

Videos:
Demo: http://starswithstripes.org/drupal-o-demo
About Alpha Release: http://starswithstripes.org/drupal-o-alpha-release

Here are a few examples of live sites:
http://starswithstripes.org/portfolio

Here are a few examples of designs, or "skins", implemented with our Subtheme module:
http://starswithstripes.org/designs

Working well in Mass

My family's State Senator uses Drupal O in Massachusetts, and loves it.... Very empowering to local elected officials with little budget or technical staff. Would love to see this Session.

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