CivicActions

For its third DrupalCamp, the Paris Drupal community is performing an awesome experiment: building a website in 48 hours for a local NGO.

A very open application process drew a dozen applications from NGOs across France, with a wide variety of anti-poverty, development, and other missions. This led to the selection of Project Aurore, which is focussed on social development and "réinsertion sociale" for socially excluded groups. Aurore desire a new site to catalog social agencies in Paris (emergency housing, meals, healthe care, etc) so that their targetted communities can easily find what they need, when they need it, mixed with a video blog that reports on the same.

Today we're doing getting to know the mission and goals of Projet Aurore, wireframing, doing a content audit, building taxonomies, and starting some of the design. Tomorrow, well, we'll be doing everything else. We'll see how far we get, people seem optimistic! I'll post an update later.

In fact the project has an uncanny resemblence to one of our projects currently in development, so it'll make a great case study later for comparing a wild, open free-for-all 48 hour development process with 50+ developers to a 4-month long, 'typical' development process (if you can call the way we roll here at CivicActions 'typical') with a 4 or 5 person team.

Follow along on Twitter: #drupalngo
Drupalngo: http://drupalngo.org/en
Barcamp page: http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampParis3