How can you get real time data from food security organizations operating on the ground in Africa into the hands of decision makers working to prevent famines based in Washington, DC? I’ll talk about how you can do this with Drupal tomorrow at the Do It With Drupal conference.

In this session, I’ll discuss how to think about workflow based on your target audiences, what that means from a website architecture standpoint, and how you can meet your audiences’ specific needs with Drupal’s flexible architecture and a few newly developed contributed modules. The goal of this session is to enable you to go out and build your own real time mapping tools, similar to what we’ve done for the Food Security Portal.

Agenda

• 15 minutes to review the fully functional and live Food Security Portal
• 10 minutes to review the different modules that power the site
• 15 minutes to look at how to do this from a “Drupal out of the box” perspective
• 10 minutes to discuss the custom code/glue that makes magic happen on the Food Security Portal
• 10 minutes to talk about some of exciting developments coming in Drupal that will make serious applications built with Drupal even more powerful (including Drupal’s SMS and RDF tools)
• All remaining time will be for questions

I’ll post my slides here after the presentation, so if you can’t make it to the conference come back to check them out.