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“This is where the end of cancer begins”

Only local images are allowed.

The Mission

Recently a new effort was launched to help facilitate the goal of making cancer a national priority. This is the first of its kind event in the cancer community where all the major US television networks have come together to provide a show that will air in primetime on September 5, 2008. The show is called Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) and it will have an enormous impact on focusing our attention on this disease, which ultimately will lead to better outcomes.

The Organization

So what makes this organization different from other Cancer organizations? It comes down to publicity.

  • Stand Up 2 Cancer will be broadcasting simultaneously on ABC, NBC, and CBS for a special history-making interactive television special, on September 5, 2008.
  • Over 50 of the biggest names in TV, film, sports, and music, will participate in the live phone bank.
  • Segments on cutting-edge research -- likely to be reported by network news anchors Katie Couric, Charles Gibson, and Brian Williams -- will include intimate dialogue with the renowned scientists who are making the big, potentially life-saving discoveries.
  • Celebrity performances and participation in special live and filmed pieces designed to educate, inspire and entertain.

The Website

The organization’s website, http://standup2cancer.org, is running on Drupal 5.7. The project was initially started by the media agency WhittmanHart. WhittmanHart realized they didn’t have the Drupal experience required for such a large project, and brought us in for Drupal consulting.

From a development perspective, the site is broken into 4 sections: static content, the constellation, donations, and MySU2C. Only the static content and MySU2C were done in Drupal, the others were handled by 3rd party applications. The constellation does use AMFPHP to pull user data from the Drupal DB to allow for users who have donated to create a star on the constellation for a cancer victim.

Get Involved

This was a great project to be a part of, it’s a great site to check out, and a good cause to be involved with. So go to the site and register. Join the Drupal group, donate, and let’s see if we as a community can make a difference.

Here are some great links for the site:

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Comments

Doktor.Science’s picture

Doktor.Science commented

Hi. Your site looks amazing! How did you create the frontpage's video carousel? Did you use a standard Drupal module or flash custom code this?

metals83’s picture

metals83 commented

Hey,
Its a great site.
I have few questions about the video carousel.
Is every uploaded video uploaded as a node?
How is it determined which video will show up in the carousel?
and How did you implement the video carousel?

Congrats for building a great site.

Cheers
metals83

salbanese’s picture

salbanese commented

Hi there,

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy the site.

The video carousel was not actually managed through Drupal at launch, but we are currently in the process of moving it over. Each video is a node, and we are populating the flash by rendering a list generated by the Views module into xml.

We are using a similar technique in the SUTV section ( http://www.standup2cancer.org/sutv ). The different channels and videos are populated through an ajax request that renders a views list as xml.

Thanks again for visiting standup2cancer.org

- Seth Albanese