Date:
25 March 2024

About the CivicTheme gameshow

On day 2 of DrupalSouth 2024, Salsa hosted a live, interactive gameshow. DrupalSouth attendees could register for the gameshow, and four lucky participants were selected at random. There were Visa gift cards totalling $1000 up for grabs, with the winner set to take home $500.

View CivicTheme gameshow websiteExternal Link

The running sheet

The gameshow host, Akhil Bhandari, kicked off the session with a brief overview of the CivicTheme design systemExternal Link — what it is and how it works. Next, he handed to the CivicTheme Design Lead Alan Rako who showed participants a mockup homepage he’d created using CivicTheme out-of-the-box components. The hypothetical homepage for Drupal Community Heroes also gave participants the chance to stamp their own design flare on the pages, selecting their preferred components and images.

CivicTheme DrupalSouth's Got Talent game show homepage in tablet-like screen

Homepage example in Figma

Contestants had only 20 minutes to do their thing!

The judges

It was a star-studded judging cast:

  • Tim Doyle — Drupal Association CEO

  • Sharyn Clarkson — Assistant Secretary at Department of Finance and GovCMS founder

  • Vladimir Roudakov — Drupal developer with Tomato Elephant Studio and Drupal contributor

And the winner is…

The 20 minutes flew by and then it was time to judge the homepage designs. The judges chose first, second, third and fourth place.

First place went to Tommy Jessop.

Screenshot of Tommy Jessop CivicTheme page in DrupalSouth Got Talent game show
Screenshot of Tommy Jessop CivicTheme page in DrupalSouth Got Talent game show
Screenshot of Tommy Jessop CivicTheme page in DrupalSouth Got Talent game show

Screenshot of Tommy’s homepage.

Second place went to Joshua Graham.

Screenshot of Joshua Graham's CivicTheme page for DrupalSouth Got Talent gameshow
Screenshot of Joshua Graham's CivicTheme page for DrupalSouth Got Talent gameshow

Screenshot of Joshua’s homepage.

Third place went to Mimi Cho.

Screenshot of Mimi Cho's CivicTheme page for DrupalSouth Got Talent gameshow
Screenshot of Mimi Cho's CivicTheme page for DrupalSouth Got Talent gameshow

Screenshot of Mimi’s homepage.

Fourth place went to Jaspreet Gill.

Screenshot of Jaspreet Gill's CivicTheme page for DrupalSouth Got Talent gameshow

Screenshot of Jaspreet’s homepage.

Reflections of a CivicTheme gameshow host

“Up until 30 minutes before the show we were still refining the event! It was touch and go, but in the end it went extremely well and we all had a lot of fun!”

Akhil Bhandari
CivicTheme gameshow host