YMCA Website Services (former Open Y) Community Edition

The Open Y platform is a content management system that uses Drupal 8/9 functionality and useful modules from YMCAs and digital partners. It’s easy and free to use—everyone is welcome to implement Open Y and run Open Y projects.

Open Y is huge. Check ecosystem for it on Drupal.org as well as all decoupled components from it in GitHub

Origin of Open Y: In 2016 a group of YMCA digital, marketing, and technology experts recognized the digital opportunities that exist if we work together as a community and established Open Y.

The original core team was led by a small group of YMCAs including the YMCA North, Greater Seattle and YMCA of Greater Houston.

The current Open Y core team:

• Maintains the Open Y content management system
• Ensures all basic functionality accessible from the content management system is available free of charge—those who contribute cannot charge others for what is shared
• Strives to be aware of issues found within the Open Y content management system
• Is not liable for bugs, crashes or performance issues of the content management system
• Invites and approves digital partners to join
• Offers training for Open Y Specialists—digital partners that are very familiar with the platform
• Offers certification for Open Y Integrators—digital partners that can install and work directly on the codebase
• Distributes communication about Open Y
• Organizes events for the Open Y community—including an annual meeting each June
• More info on the Open Y movement at OpenY.org.

Demo

To see a demo and tutorial of the Open Y CMS experience visit https://sandboxes.openy.org/. To get admin credentials to the sandbox - please visit page for details. Once you have logged in, go to the Open Y sandboxes and click on "Start Guided Tour".

The demo includes:

• Full userguide with tutorial in the Guided Tour
• Sample menu/navigation items in main menu and footer
• Dynamic blog posts on homepage, /blog page and branch pages
• Dynamic content on Programs pages

Installation

We recommend using Composer to build and maintain your project.

composer create-project ymcatwincities/openy-project MY_PROJECT --no-interaction --no-dev

For more information see our Open Y Project README, documentation, and case study.

We don't recommend installing Open Y from drupal.org archives, because it doesn't have all necessary dependencies due to the outdated method of building (using drush make).