Building, Collaborating and Scaling Drupal Distributions for Federated Organizations

Building, Collaborating and Scaling
Drupal Distributions for Federated Organizations 
 
Alex Schedrov Team Lead, Software Architect at FFW
Craig Paulnock Assoc. VP of Digital Product, YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities
John Kennedy Product Manager, Acquia
#openy

ALEX SCHEDROV
Team Lead, Software Architect
I’m from Ukraine.
9 years in web development.
I dream about own music
band 🎸
http://dgo.to/@sanchiz
http://fb.me/schedrov
http://sanchiz.net/en

CRAIG PAULNOCK
Associate VP of Digital Product
and Innovation
20 years WebDev, PM, Prod.
I’m daydreaming about
snowboarding right now🏂
http://dgo.to/@cpaulnock
https://linkedin.com/in/craigpaulnock/

JOHN KENNEDY
Open Source Product Manager
I’m from Australia.
15 years in Cloud & Open
Source
I dance West Cost Swing 🕺
http://dgo.to/@johnkennedy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnakennedy/
https://twitter.com/CommerceJohn

CONTINUATION
http://bit.ly/openy-baltimore-2017
DrupalCon Baltimore 2017 session about
Open Y distribution where we examine
how we are leveraging open source, Drupal
8 with one of the largest federated non-
profit organization in the world, the
YMCA.

Open Y 
 An open source platform for YMCAs, by YMCAs built on Drupal 8.

United States
874 Associations
2,700 locations
20 M Members
Worldwide
130 Countries
11,000 locations
58 M Participants

There are
YMCAs in more
than 130
countries, each
serving the
unique needs of
their community.

What is OpenY?
A philosophy that
collaboration drives
innovation and impact
A community of YMCAs
and technology
Partners
An open-source platform
for marketing, ecommerce
and digital products

EVALUATE OPEN Y
SANDBOX.OPENYMCA.ORG
Username: admin
Password: openy
The sandbox is the fastest and most
convenient way to experience Open
Y. All changes are reset every two
hours.
We will update Sandbox with the
latest Open Y stable release.

CORE TEAM
The core team consists of Y team
members who are responsible for the
Open Y distribution, maintenance and
roadmap.
This team is tasked with the goal of
ensuring Open Y meets the needs of
the associations and the people we
serve.

Acceleration Funding
Community and volunteers
YMCA of Greater Houston
YMCA of Greater Seattle
YMCA of Greater Twin Cities
Other Committed YMCAs
HOW OPEN Y IS BUILT

YMCA of Greater Twin Cities
Group Exercise Schedule
Personal Training
Retention Campaign
…

EXAMPLE FEATURE
User stories and
requirements are
reviewed by Open Y
core team
Personal
Training on
ymcamn.org
Feature is
Decoupled
Submitted as
“Pull Request”
Feature is
reviewed by
Open Y core
team
Feature is
merged into the
Open Y codebase

EXAMPLE USER STORY
As a member of the YMCA, I will be able to purchase personal training
packages from the website so I can attend a training session.
WHY?
What is the expected
functionality? What
should the user be
able to do?
Who is the targeted
audience?
What is the significance
of this, what does the
given feature or
functionality achieve?
A user story typically describes a business requirement
and consists of 3 parts:
WHO?WHAT?

composer create-project ymcatwincities/openy-project MY_PROJECT --no-
interaction --no-dev
INSTALLATION
Latest stable

composer create-project ymcatwincities/openy-project:8.1.x-development-
dev MY_PROJECT --no-interaction --no-dev
INSTALLATION
Latest stable
Latest development

composer create-project ymcatwincities/openy-project:8.1.x-development-
dev MY_PROJECT --no-interaction --no-dev
INSTALLATION
Latest stable
Latest development
cibox.tools docksal.io
Development environment
*github.com/acquia/blt
* - not part of OpenY

PROJECT
github.com/ymcatwincities/openy
*bit.ly/openy-github
Installation profile and all OpenY
features.
github.com/ymcatwincities/openy-
project
*bit.ly/openy-project-github
Composer project(wrapper) for
easy installation process.

WHAT IS THE DISTRIBUTION?
Setup of features out of the box.

PROGRAMS
STRUCTURE
Customers can explore all
available programs and
categories provided by
the Y.
sandbox.openymca.org/programs/swimming

MEMBERSHIP
Membership calculator -
page where customers
and potential members
can explore all available
membership types and
proceed with checkout.
sandbox.openymca.org/join

LOCATIONS
Locations finder - place
where customers can find
all branches, camps and
offsite locations.
Contain various filters
that allow to narrow
down search results.
sandbox.openymca.org/locations

Branch page itself
contains all necessary
information about
branch, such as branch
hours, address, phone,
latest blog posts and etc.
BRANCHES
sandbox.openymca.org/locations/east-ymca

SCHEDULES
Schedules page provides
easy and quick access to
the timetable of classes
and sessions.
This page also provides
quick access to the
registration and main
information about
classes.
sandbox.openymca.org/schedules

COMPONENT
Components -
paragraphs that
render static fields or
dynamic blocks.

STATIC COMPONENT DYNAMIC COMPONENT

Content
Landing Page
Y structure and schedule Locations
Membership
Example: Homepage, Schedule,
About
Used for adding different pages
to the websites that will display
Open Y components.
Blog Post
Blog posts are used to add
content to the webiste, like
news, stories and updates.
Alert
Alerts are used to add very
important messages to the
website that should be
prominent.
Program
Category
Activity
Class
Session
Example: Swimming, ChildCare, Kids
and Family, Health & Fitness
Example: Drop-In Swim, Swim
Lessons, Personal Training
Example: Swim Lesson - Adult,
Small Group Training - Youth
Example: Small Group Training -
Yoga, Swim Team - Beginning
Example: Lap Swim(every Monday
at 9:00AM)
Branch
Camp
Facility (offsite location)
Example: West YMCA, Downtown
YMCA, White Bear Area
Example: Day Camp, Family Camp,
Summer Camp
Example: Bear Creek Elementary,
Cottage Lake Park
Membership
Example: Family, Couple, Youth,
Adult, Senior

USER GUIDE
Current documentation is
at GitHub.
The code comes with a
Guided Tour feature that
will help to introduce
people to Open Y
administration.

langcode: en
status: true
dependencies:
module:
- menu_ui
id: openy-menu-overview
label: 'OpenY Menu Overview'
module: openy_menu
routes:
- route_name: entity.menu.collection
tips:
main-navigation:
id: main-navigation
plugin: text
label: 'Main Navigation Block'
body: 'This Navigation Block is what appears in the header, or "top" of your page. This
is where you have all of the links on your site for pages like Locations or Schedules. This
is the block we will edit later to add or make changes to the main navigation on your Open Y
site.'
weight: 2
attributes:
data-class: 'menu-label:contains("Main navigation")'
github.com/ymcatwincities/openy/blob/8.x-1.x/modules/openy_features/openy_menu/config/optional/
tour.tour.openy-menu-overview.yml

DEMO
CONTENT
Using Migrate module and
«embedded_data» plugin
we generate demo
content from YAML files.
Moreover it may be
removed any time
(migrate rollback).

THEME
The included theme,
called Rose, currently
comes with three color
pre-sets based on
YMCA branding
standards and can be
customized using
Drupal Core module -
Color.

A LOT MORE FEATURES…
CHECK THEM OUT ON
SANDBOX.OPENYMCA.ORG 
OR 
GITHUB.COM/YMCATWINCITIES/OPENY

NOW EVERY Y CAN GET NEW,
SECURE AND POWERFUL WEBSITE
IN ~15 MINUTES.
https://youtu.be/RCvsLANsbm8

NOW EVERY SMALL Y CAN USE
FEATURES THAT ONLY LARGE Y
COULD AFFORD.

DIGITAL 
EXPERIENCE
DELIVERY

ONBOARDING & INSTALLATION
WITHOUT DEVELOPMENT

In-place documentation in the CMS
that will walk user through User
Interface and explain basics.
In-place docs1.

In-place docs1.
Video/text tutorials that give
customers understanding of how to
configure Open Y, setup various
features and use distribution.
Tutorials2.

Installation Wizard3.
Installation wizard that should allow
customers to setup new Open Y site
and a few clicks.
In-place docs1.
Tutorials2.

Installation Wizard3.
Installation wizard that should allow
customers to setup new Open Y site
and a few clicks.
Migrations4.
Migrate content from old website
withou development effort. In
addition tutorials for custom
migrations.
In-place docs1.
Tutorials2.

QUESTIONS?
THANK YOU!
#openyOpenYMCA.org

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