US Servas is member of an international network of organizations under the umbrella of Servas International. The home page of the US Servas site defines the organization succinctly: "Servas is a worldwide cooperative cultural exchange network of travelers and hosts working together to foster peace, goodwill and mutual respect."
The organization has a complex set of business rules and member structure that all had to be accounted for in building a web application that streamlined the membership management and acquisition.
We also spent a great amount of time correcting and filling in gaps in data from a legacy database in order to import the data to a new Drupal system.
Viewing the site as a visitor (not logged in as a member or administrator) provides little in the way of understanding the depth and complexity of the web application that runs underneath. It's a highly interactive site, with e-commerce, social media interaction, geolocation systems/mapping, and complex customer relation management tools. All of this compounded with about a dozen different types of users, each with specific requirements and sets of data they need to see (and sets of data they shouldn't see).
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This was a difficult but in the end highly rewarding project. We learned a tremendous amount about what the Drupal system is capable of. We also learned we owe ourselves some travel time - quite possibly the Servas way!