Website Challenge

Posted Fri, 2009-04-17 10:09 by mairead

The Rural Science Association was chosen to be part of DrupalCamp Ireland web building challenge. The event took place on the 4th and 5th April 2009 in DERI, NUI Galway who were sponsoring the event along with 101 professional web development, Dublin & London and Annertech, Dublin. The Rural Science Association was represented by Helene Dooley, Mairead Rohan, Paddy Fitzpatrick, Bernard Joyce and Dermot Leavy.

Drupal is a powerful open source content management system which allows users to easily publish, manage and share a wide variety of content on the internet.

Over fifty organisations, charities and NGOs from Ireland applied to participation in the Drupal nGo competition and the two winners were:

Rural Science Association
Zikomo Ireland

Two teams assigned to each group consisted of designers, site builders, theme developers, trainers and mentors. The sprint challenge was an excellent way for IT wizards to get involved with community organisations and make a meaningful contribution to the Drupal project. The event was lead and overseen by Addison Berry, head of Drupal’s documentation team who came from the US to be in attendance.

Participating in this event provided the Rural Science Association with a state of the art website free of charge. It also gave the committee members an opportunity to work along with advanced Drupal developers to build the website in a comfortable and fun environment. The team consisted of:

Team Leader:

Stella Power, Annertech, Dublin;

Content and Structure Team:

Sile Ginnane Fluid Edge, Dublin and Ennis; info@fluidedge.ie;

Heather James, Kids’Own/IT Sligo; Stephen Gray, Nicva;

Fergal O’Kane, Nicva;

Features Team:

Stephen Walsh, Nortel; Derek Bridge, UCC; Michael O’Keeffe;

Aidan Murphy, Irish Farmers Journal/Agricultural Trust;

Balazs Dianiska, Efero vallazs.d@efero.com;

Design Team:

Conor Cahill, Fluidedge, Dublin and Ennis info@fluidedge.ie;

Eugene Flynn, 54 Degrees;
Colm Ward, Fluidedge, Dublin and Ennis info@fluidedge.ie;
Anthony Lindsay, The Wheel; Tony Crosse, Artist/Designer;
Franny Gant, LGBT Consortium;