Case Study: How and Why Drupal Powers 850 websites at McGill

Matt Corks and Joyce Peralta

Drupal is used extensively at McGill University; a team of 10 people a platform used by 1,700 active site managers to power 10 million page views per month on the website ranked # 115 in Canada by Alexa. This is achieved through a shared Drupal multisite architecture, automated deployment and provisioning scripts, dedicated and responsive support staff, extensive internal training and documentation efforts, and an agile workflow. This session will cover the project's goals, scope, history, architecture, staffing, user base, planning, training, documentation, and challenges, and will be co-presented by Matt Corks, a back-end developer, and Joyce Peralta, a web analyst.

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