Research and academia

Reporting to the Museum's Director of Technology, the Team Leader will work in a hands-on capacity, and will oversee the entire development lifecycle for web projects from conceptualization and project inception to post production support. The Team Leader will interact with representatives of the Museum's various departments (e.g. scientific research, conservation, education, exhibitions, public programming, digital outreach, etc.) to guide and coordinate web page/feature strategy for those departments and for the Museum overall. The Team Leader will provide both design and technical leadership to a small and highly capable web design/development team in order to develop world-class web pages, features and functionality to support all of the Museum's departments and functions. The Team Leader will develop and drive the web team's technical channel strategy and tactics, and will also ensure that the Museum systematically deploys best-in-class user experience, SEO, site search, analytics, site features & functionality. The Team Leader will ensure that social media and other digital tools are properly tied to site activities; and will also collaborate with other groups within the Technology department (digitization, video development, new media (apps, ebooks, etc.)) to assure that the Museum maintains coordinated, world-class outreach and communication.

Please submit cover letter and resume to: webteamlead@fieldmuseum.org

OpenAcadept is a Drupal distribution for building academic websites. It can help academic departments to have own site. The functionality of OpenAcaDept is based on what we need in Donetsk National Technical University and will be extended due to user requests. OpenAcaDept is in active development now, but you can start to build your own project based on it, while helping us to fix issues. It is very important to have a feedback from you re this project, because it will help improve it.

OpenAcaDept features:

• Basic content types such as Project, Event, Publication, Resource, Blog post, Page.
• Configurable user profiles for different roles: Faculty/staff, Student, Alumnus.
• Views for pages and contextual blocks.
• Smart node access workflow and role application on registration.
• Installed menu items, taxonomy terms and pages.
• Custom theme.

This page...

http://coredogs.com/article/textbook-writer-tools-writing-active-textbooks

... describes a tool for writing online textbooks. The textbooks:

• Embody best practices from learning science.
• Can be written and sold by individuals and small groups, without needing a publishing company.

Kieran

The Institute for American Thought at IUPUI (http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/iat) is seeking a Web Developer to collaborate on a large Drupal-based project.

Education is increasingly recognised as a major and growing need for the growing Drupal community. During DrupalCons educational BoFs are very common, but we may need more structure to collaborate on the diversity of challenges for education.

Hi all,

with the deadline for session proposals for DrupalCon London rapidly approaching, I'm thinking about putting together a session(s) proposal to talk about some ideas around Drupal and education and/or educating in Drupal. So far, I've only seen two proposals going in that direction: http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/bringing-drupal-educati... and http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/noob-experience-look-le....

Anybody working on something, so we're not working at cross-purposes or can possibly pool our resources?

A listing of the people at the Birds of a Feather session at DrupalCon Chicago 2011, and the projects we're working on:
--question, which BoF, there have been several ... should we make it sessions?? --
Shawn DeArmond - Manuscript submission and review

Ali Zimmerman (dreamwell_ali)- Scholarly editing of critical editions (Institute for American Thought)

Leo Robert Klein (leoklein) - UIC, Office of Admissions & Records.

HighWire Press, a department of Stanford University Library, hosts high-impact scholarly journals and other scholarly content on the Web, primarily for not-for-profit societies and publishers. A new Drupal/PHP Web Developer position is available to work as part of the existing development staff.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
This position is responsible for the technical design and construction of components of our web application including those specifically designed for publishers to manage their web sites.

The Field Museum's Web and New Media Group is looking for a Front End Developer/Designer!

We're looking for someone with a great design sense, technical chops, and solid front-end skills: HTML, CSS and Javascript experience; a good portfolio of past work; zeal for grids and typography and modern standards; a taste for pushing things forward, and the ability to apply your skills across a wide spectrum of projects. An interest in science, especially dinosaurs, is a big plus. But most importantly, what we're looking for is somebody who wants to make a difference and be a part of of a new team dedicated to doing some pretty cool new things on the web and beyond.

Our team is creative, and ambitious and hungry, and we hope you are too.

The Field Museum, on Chicago's downtown lakefront Museum Campus, is a world-class home for research, education and more collections specimens you could possibly count (okay, it's in the tens of millions). We've just relaunched in Drupal 7, and we hosted the official party at Drupalcon Chicago. As our Front End Dev/Designer, you'll be a pivotal part in developing the online presence for one of the most prestigious scientific and cultural institutions in the nation, as well as get to work with a unique and diverse set of projects across a variety of media. This is definitely not your typical job.

Interested? Say hi at devel@fieldmuseum.org.