Advomatic is a web development firm founded in 2004 that specializes in building sites with Drupal. They describe some of their past clients which include organizations like PBS, NRDC, and the UN. They explain that Drupal is a popular open source content management system used by many large organizations because it is secure, scalable, and allows leveraging existing modules to reduce development costs. Advomatic provides services like information architecture, development, hosting, and strategy around Drupal.

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Advomatic, Drupal, and Government
Adam Mordecai • mordecai@advomatic.com
General Services Administration
9.03.09

2. Who Are We?
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3. Founded by
Aaron Welch & Adam Mordecai
after the 2004 Presidential election.
Adam & Aaron met doing Drupal web
development for Howard Dean
during the 2004 Democratic Primary
in Iowa.
During the campaign we helped
develop a distributed network of state
DeanSpace sites, custom volunteer
logistics system, and custom GOTV
tools.

4. When we started there was just the 2 of us.
Year 2 - 4 people.
Year 3 - 8 people.
Year 4 - 16 people.
Our development team works from their home
offices.
Our administrative and strategic staff are
headquartered in our main office in NYC.

5. Our Services
Information Architecture
Design
Development
Strategy & Consulting
Hosting
Maintenance
Click-to-Call

6. Our Clients
Public Broadcasting System (Art21)
Natural Resources Defense Council
United Nations Millennium Campaign
American Museum of Natural History
Drum Major Institute
General Wesley Clark
Mozilla Foundation
Netroots Nation
Maplight.org
Sony BMG
Fast Company

7. We build all our sites on Drupal.
What is Drupal?

8. Drupal

9. Who uses Drupal?
Recovery.gov
The United Nations
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International
Oxfam
Sun Microsystems
Popular Science
Sony
The Emmys
The Economist
Belgium
Disney

10. How Secure is Drupal?
Drupal has a core security team of 34
international developers devoted to keeping it
secure. Additionally, 250,000 developers around
the world report to this team with issues.
Private
Security Drupal Module/
Problem Security Theme
Report Team Author Public
Patch &
Update
New
Notifications
Release

11. Why Use Drupal?
Drupal

12. Why Use Drupal?
★ Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Features and requirements can often
be met with one of the 1800 contributed modules from the Drupal
community.
Drupal

13. Why Use Drupal?
★ Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Features and requirements can often
be met with one of the 1800 contributed modules from the Drupal
community.
★ Freedom & Stability: If a particular vendor does not work out,
there are a variety of vendors and consultants who can step in.
Drupal

14. Why Use Drupal?
★ Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Features and requirements can often
be met with one of the 1800 contributed modules from the Drupal
community.
★ Freedom & Stability: If a particular vendor does not work out,
there are a variety of vendors and consultants who can step in.
★ Open Source Model: By using an OS CMS, orgs can leverage
the contributions of the community at large.
Drupal

15. Why Use Drupal?
★ Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Features and requirements can often
be met with one of the 1800 contributed modules from the Drupal
community.
★ Freedom & Stability: If a particular vendor does not work out,
there are a variety of vendors and consultants who can step in.
★ Open Source Model: By using an OS CMS, orgs can leverage
the contributions of the community at large.
★ Security: Drupal has excellent processes to deal with
vulnerabilities, issues and bugs.
Drupal

16. Why Use Drupal?
★ Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Features and requirements can often
be met with one of the 1800 contributed modules from the Drupal
community.
★ Freedom & Stability: If a particular vendor does not work out,
there are a variety of vendors and consultants who can step in.
★ Open Source Model: By using an OS CMS, orgs can leverage
the contributions of the community at large.
★ Security: Drupal has excellent processes to deal with
vulnerabilities, issues and bugs.
★ Scalability and Performance: Drupal can scale to meet the
needs of even the largest sites. Many high traffic sites use it
successfully today.
Drupal

17. Why Use Drupal?
★ Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Features and requirements can often
be met with one of the 1800 contributed modules from the Drupal
community.
★ Freedom & Stability: If a particular vendor does not work out,
there are a variety of vendors and consultants who can step in.
★ Open Source Model: By using an OS CMS, orgs can leverage
the contributions of the community at large.
★ Security: Drupal has excellent processes to deal with
vulnerabilities, issues and bugs.
★ Scalability and Performance: Drupal can scale to meet the
needs of even the largest sites. Many high traffic sites use it
successfully today.
★ Momentum: The number of Drupal sites has doubled every year
for the last 4 years.
Drupal

18. Some pretty cool things
we’ve done with Drupal.
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19. MAPLIGHT.ORG
Tracks contributions
from interest groups
against votes in
congress
Imports data from
THOMAS, FEC and
OpenSecrets.org
Creates money
maps, widgets, and
other user friendly
data displays.

20. MAPLIGHT.ORG
Tracks contributions
from interest groups
against votes in
congress
Imports data from
THOMAS, FEC and
OpenSecrets.org
Creates money
maps, widgets, and
other user friendly
data displays.

21. MAPLIGHT.ORG
Tracks contributions
from interest groups
against votes in
congress
Imports data from
THOMAS, FEC and
OpenSecrets.org
Creates money
maps, widgets, and
other user friendly
data displays.

22. MAPLIGHT.ORG
Tracks contributions
from interest groups
against votes in
congress
Imports data from
THOMAS, FEC and
OpenSecrets.org
Creates money
maps, widgets, and
other user friendly
data displays.

23. NEW YORK STATE SENATE
Multiple levels of
permissions for
senate staff
offices.
Dynamic
mapping of
Representatives
Importation and
distribution of
legislative data.

24. NEW YORK STATE SENATE
Multiple levels of
permissions for
senate staff
offices.
Dynamic
mapping of
Representatives
Importation and
distribution of
legislative data.

25. NEW YORK STATE SENATE
Multiple levels of
permissions for
senate staff
offices.
Dynamic
mapping of
Representatives
Importation and
distribution of
legislative data.

26. NEW YORK STATE SENATE
Multiple levels of
permissions for
senate staff
offices.
Dynamic
mapping of
Representatives
Importation and
distribution of
legislative data.

27. OTHER USE CASES
Fast Company - Content Editing & Queue System -
Slot Machine Module
ACLU - Removal of all cookie delivery to anonymous users
ACLU - Massive data importation - Custom import scripts to
unify all content under one CMS.
New York Observer - Multisite configuration on a shared
codebase - One set of code to upgrade

28. What do you want to do?
Drupal can do it.
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