Sparks Interactive http://drupal.org/node/2237209

Sparks Interactive is a full service web agency based in New Zealand - designing and building websites since 2005, and Drupal websites since 2007.

We specialise in large-scale content, critical business platforms and digital experience marketing websites:

• Content migrations and platform upgrades
• Digital content marketing, lead generation and conversion
• Publishing workflow and management for enterprise content
• API integrations and decoupled publishing using Gatsby, or distributed publishing to any endpoint
• Consulting, strategy and creative to support your online business

To learn more and get in touch visit Sparks!

The Sector distribution

Sparks Interactive were looking to change the way they worked and contribute more to the Drupal community, so in 2016 published their in-house Drupal base install profile - Sector D7. Sector D8 followed in 2018, along with extensive documentation for editors and sitebuilders. In March 2021 we released a version for Drupal 9 and in July 2023 a stable release for Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org/project/sector/).

Sparks have used Sector to build websites for many of their clients and have won a New Zealand Open Source Award for Sector and the Forest & Bird website.

To learn more about Sector, see the Sector project page and the sector.nz website.

In their time at Sparks several team members have contributed core patches to multiple releases of Drupal core, and maintain or have contributed to dozens of contrib modules (too many to list!).

Sparks have also sponsored beer and pizza for Drupal community meetups, host the Auckland Drupal meetup, instigated the Drupal8NZ developers pledge code sprints, and have hosted Drupal8 code sprints in Wellington and Auckland.

DrupalSouth conferences

Sparks Interactive have taken part in the Australasian DrupalSouth conference for many years.

• Wellington 2010: Sparks was a main sponsor, and Dave Sparks was a speaker at the event
• Wellington 2014: Sparks was a jade sponsor, and sponsored coffee (a crucial part of any conference) The Sparks team also ran the DrupalSouth code sprint
• Auckland 2017: Sparks was a platinum sponsor and lead organiser for DrupalSouth 2017, with a number of speakers presenting as well as involvement in code sprints
• Hobart 2019: Sparks made their way over to Australia and presented three talks related to Sector and Drupal 8
• Canberra 2020: Sparks joined in via video-conference to DrupalGov, and was a panellist on Content editing UX and accessibility sessions
• Drupal Shorts Online 2021: As part of the DrupalSouth steering committee Dave Sparks helped organise and hosted a series of online events, including a keynote conversation with Dries
• Brisbane 2022: As Chair off the DrupalSouth committee Dave helped organise and hosted DrupalSouth Brisbane. Sparks provided the conference logo and were merchandise sponsor
• Wellington 2023: As Chair off the DrupalSouth committee Dave helped organise and hosted DrupalSouth Wellington. Sparks provided the conference logo and were again merchandise sponsor
• The future: Sparks look forward to continuing to support and attend DrupalSouth.