Student teams work with clients to develop new web sites on a web-based Content Management System, utilizing the Drupal open-source platform. The built system is meant to support content management and related interaction within the client organization as well as between the client and outside users and groups.

Ideal Clients

What we're looking for in a client:

• Desire to create a website involving both content management and community interaction
• Willingness to help students by explaining your group's work and giving continuous feedback
• A single point of contact who is willing to spend at least one hour per week with the student team, by phone or in person
• An interest in deploying the site on a server you control at the end of the term

Past Clients

Michigan Daily, U-M Medical School (pancreapedia site); VA Hospital HSR&D; Rwanda: Stories for Hope Project; Polar Bear Archives

Project Outcomes/Benefits for Clients

Students are expected to deliver a working site, design documents, as well as complete documentation/user manual explaining how to carry out the tasks required for using, maintaining, and administering the site.

Other Information

Course faculty will present a list of projects to students during the first class, and allow them to express preferences. Faculty will then assign student teams to projects, taking into account their preferences while ensuring that the students' skills complement each other so that each team has a good balance.

Contact

Rahul Sami
University of Michigan School of Information
Assistant Professor
rsami@umich.edu

or

Michael Hess
University of Michigan School of Information
Adjunct Lecturer
mlhess@umich.edu

Potential clients should complete a brief interest form via the project website at http://cmsprojects.cms.si.umich.edu/submit

Last day to accept proposals: August 31