Research and academia

Sun Microsystems, Acquia and Code Positive are pleased to invite you to a half day event focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in education.

The session will cover a number of topics relevant to the deployment of Drupal in education:

• Suitability of Drupal for brochure websites, course management and delivery, community building, and sharing of information
• Which versions of Drupal to use and the recommended modules based upon your needs
• Designing and implementing the right architecture to meet scalability and security requirements
• Commercial, Enterprise Class support and services available for Drupal and associate infrastructure

Whether you are evaluating Drupal or running in production, this is a great opportunity to learn more about Drupal deployments, put your questions to the experts, and connect with the London Drupal community.

Drupal For education is free, but event registration is required:

Introduction

Currently Biblio is still using custom node types. As a result it is necessary to build bridge modules to enable integration of functionality that by default already is available to CCK content types. Also since Biblio has developed it's own functionality ecosystem there are a couple of functionalities that currently only exist for Biblio nodes.

Just wanted to announce the availability of a Sharepoint-clone theme for Drupal, which I imagine could be quite suitable for educational websites et.c. It's available here The page itself is currently using the theme.

The same skin is ported to MediaWiki too, so you can have a completely integrated look-and-feel between Drupal and MediaWiki (+ Sharepoint of course). The MediaWiki counterpart can at the moment be seen here.

[This is a wiki - please don't hesitate to update, revise, and contribute your ideas!]

Goals and Objectives

• Develop an open training and certification program;
• Create a more effective platform to provide free online training, mentoring, and a showcase for Drupal;
• Discover and recruit new talent;
• Help end-users to evaluate a specialist by providing standard "levels of expertise";
• Reach out to make new audiences aware of Drupal who might not be currently aware;
• Attract peripheral Drupal types to become more closely involved and active;

At drupalcon Szeged their was an interesting suggestion to define RDF for Drupal curriculums. Check the presentation.

Their was the suggestion to write down bullets of what need to be in the curriculum. To me however, their it is not yet enough clarity to start creating bullets. I'm looking forward to a discussion. Whatever your point, let this post be an invitation for a discussion.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coding: Most of your time will be spent developing code. Our application relies heavily on Drupal and its APIs and toolsets. You will be working on a large Drupal multi-site application that uses over 100 modules and has over 100,000 lines of custom code.
• Technical Decisions: You will be expected to help drive the direction of development for our application and the general technical direction of the company. You will be expected to make and suggest decisions regarding your code and others.
• Cooperating: We are a team environment, and cooperation and communication are a must. You will be working with other developers, and testers. You will be expected to be well versed with what others are doing and be available to divert your efforts to help others when the need arises.
• Growing: Last but not least, we expect you to move up. We are a young company with a small workforce. The lines of responsibility are often blurred, and all of our staff are encouraged to try things that may be outside their normal areas of expertise.

Come help Amherst College develop a sophisticated web platform for higher ed. Experience with drupal is highly valued but not required. We've spent the last couple of years building on drupal at Amherst and are looking to scale up our efforts. Specific details on the positions are available here on the college's site, and there's a broader description and information about other openings available here.

Okay, we'll be meeting for our Drupal4lib BoF on Sun. (6/29, 3:30p-5:00p) -- in the LITA Bloggers Room (till they chase us out).

This will be an informal get-together of people to talk about how they've implemented Drupal or how they'd like to implement Drupal. Whether you're a newbie or pro is fine. Everyone is welcome. I'll see if I can dig up a projector so people can do brief presentations of their projects.

Please leave comments and suggestions.