Drupal powered Job database for NGO

Cross-post van http://groups.drupal.org/node/25087 om ruchtbaarheid te geven aan de resultaten van de Drupal hackathon van afgelopen weekend in Brussel.

Last Saturday August 1, members of the Hackerspace Brussels gathered to build a job database for the NGO Zuiddag.

In twelve hours time this small band of opensource enthousiast managed to build a web application for sharing job details including a searchable database, a google map view and a captcha challenge to prevent spam submissions.

Everything was built, of course, with Drupal using the modules that were contributed by the world wide Drupal community. Based on a Drupal 6.13 install the job database consists of CCK content types and Views pages and blocks. Furthermore the gmap module, signup and captcha were used.

Remarkably is that many of the Hackerspace members had never worked with Drupal before (they did have a good technical background, though). After a one hour presentation these Drupal newbies started configuring modules, building content types, views and so forth.

The job database will be used in Zuiddag 's "Work one day for the South" event. In this project high school students work for one or more days in a company. With the money the students earn, Zuiddag finances projects in Uganda.

More information

• Zuiddag website (in Dutch)
• Announcement Drupal Hackathon (in Dutch and English)
• Hackerspace Brussels (in English)