Hi,

I would like to present you case study about how to achieve consistency of the vocabularies between multiple sites and how to manage them from centralised Drupal distribution.

The case

• You have big client willing to run multiple sites (10-20-50-100 sites) on single platform.
• The sites should share common vocabularies.
• The terms in these vocabularies should always be the same across the sites.
• There should be only one, single point of control for these vocabularies.
• Each of the sites could also have local vocabularies that are not shared with the other sites and are controlled locally.

The talk

I can promise you very little to no code.
We are going to focus on best-practises, the system architecture and the bumps you need to be prepared for.

I would like to share with you the steps we went through in the process.
Where we failed, where we succeeded?
How we groomed the features, processed the tasks, managed the team and organised the deployment?

The benefits of using Drupal based platform such as Aegir and installation profiles?
How we came up to the solution architecture?
What were the technical challenges?
Why we used the modules we used and why we had to write our own ones?
Bugs! What we did not predict?

Result

What have we achieved at the end?
If I have to do it again, am I going to do it in the same way?
The important lessons we have learned?