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Eric Gundersen
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Eric is President of Development Seed, an online strategy shop in Washington, DC. Eric has developed communications strategies and tools for organizations around the world, ranging from international development organizations to major media outlets. Recently he has been mapping food security projects in Africa, developing the intranet at the World Bank for their international communications team, and building decentralized data collection tools to survey public health organizations' capacity to respond to bird flu outbreak on the ground in Southeast Asia.

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Decentralized Data Collection and Real Time Mapping with Drupal
Overview of Our Mapping Session for the Do It With Drupal Conference
Dec 9, 2008
by Eric Gundersen

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.

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5 Comments
Interested
Dec 22, 2008
Peter W

The mapping work you folks are doing is awesome. I look forward to seeing the session!

Very interested in seeing this!
Dec 16, 2008
Ryan Scott

wish I could have made the conference! I would be very interested in seeing video or slides about this.

Excellent work. This brings a lot of value to the community and dare I say, the world? :)

Eric's Presentation
Dec 15, 2008
Joe

I was there and thought Eric did a great job explaining not only what was done for the Pandemic Preparedness Capacity Map, but how to pull off mapping in general with Drupal.

Will surely be interesting
Dec 10, 2008
Manuel Garcia

I hope this gets recorded on video also, for all of us mortals that won’t be able to attend, if not the slides will surely be interesting also – thanks for doing this :)

Hi Manuel, Eric tells me
Dec 12, 2008
Bonnie

Hi Manuel, Eric tells me that the session was recorded, so once it’s put online I’ll post the link : )

Cheers, Bonnie