The document provides details about the XVII Mediterranean Olympics held from June 20-30, 2013 in Turkey. It summarizes that the multi-lingual official portal was powered by Railsfactory to provide information across 32 sports categories in 4 cities to participating countries from Europe, Asia and Africa around the Mediterranean Sea. Karetta, a loggerhead sea turtle, was the official mascot of the games.

1. XVII Akadeniz Oyunlari 2013
By Syed Nazir Razik PMP, CSM. ( Program Director)

2. Akadeniz Oyunlari 2013 – Fact Sheet
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XVII Mediterranean Olympics

Held between 20th
. June 2013 – 30th
.
June 2013
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Governed by ICMG (International
Committee of Mediterranean
Games ) and hosted by The Sports
Federation, Govt. of Turkey
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Participation by Europe, Asia and
African countries around
Mediterranean Sea.
HOSTS

3. Olympic Portal – Powered by Railsfactory
Multi Lingual Portal powered in 4 different languages
English, Turkish, French and Arabic.
Multi Lingual Portal powered in 4 different languages
English, Turkish, French and Arabic.

4. Karetta – Official Mascot of the games
 Karetta is a Loggerhead Sea Turtle
 Held in 28 Venues across 4 cities Mersin,
Adana, Tarsus, Erdemli.
 Inaugural at Mersin Olympic Stadiums
 Karetta is a Loggerhead Sea Turtle
 Held in 28 Venues across 4 cities Mersin,
Adana, Tarsus, Erdemli.
 Inaugural at Mersin Olympic Stadiums

5. Participating Countries – Partial List

6. Olympic Portal Vision and Scope
 Capability to handle 2 Mn. hits/day.
 Bring unified User experience
integrating all medium into the
Olympic portal.
 3 Channels -Live Streaming using TRT
(Turkish Radio and Television) feed.
 Social Media Integration to Twitter,
Facebook, Live and archived webTV.
 Enable Booking of tickets through third
party

7. Olympic Portal – Sports Coverage
 279 events in 32 Sports categories
covered
 Complete update on Event :
Schedule, Venue, Transportation
map, Event time line and
participating country information
provided
 Medals tally updates during and post
event
 Basic Information about individual
events and twitter updates

8. Olympic Portal – Sports Timeline
 Event Timeline for all 32 Sports
categories with dedicated pages
 Powered by Timeline JS : Schedule,
Venue, Event time line and
participating country information.
 Weather updates for relevant venues
provided.
 Transportation map for Venues
available for download.

9. Olympic Portal – Online Ticketing
 Online Ticketing Integration to Third party site facilitated Online Ticketing Integration to Third party site facilitated

10. Olympic Social Media Engagement
 Social Media Capacity building ,
Portal Integration on Twitter,
Facebook and Youtube
 Social Media Capacity building ,
Portal Integration on Twitter,
Facebook and Youtube

11. Olympic Portal – Technology Architecture
 Powered by Drupal, PHP
 High Availability server configuration
 Amazon S3 for CDN and Image
distribution
 Google Apps and Chartbeat for
Analytics and Tracking
 Vimeo for Video content
 Google Maps for geolocation
 Nginx, HTML5, Open Graph Protocol,
Jquery, Javascript, FB Domain Insights

12. Project Execution :Agile Methodology & Lean

13. Identify Bottlenecks and expedite them

14. Expedite WIP items towards Completion

15. Mail us:
syed@phpfactory.com
Call us:
1 (408) 475 - 9002