Posted by laura s on March 24, 2012 at 1:21am
In a discussion at DrupalCon about promoting Drupal adoption in colleges and universities, greggles, Peter Wolanin and I considered the benefit of approving college- and university-centric groups, even if there is already a regional group that might suit. My own feeling is that this would be a great idea.
Some reasoning bullet points:
- It's in the Drupal community's interest to increase Drupal adoption by students.
- College students can be rather provincial in activities (i.e., may not express interest in off-campus community events).
- Even Drupal engagement limited to just on-campus activities can be the camels nose under the tent. How long before these students are participating in the broader community.
It strikes me as a complete win.
Assuming we have consensus, the only changes would be in our approval process, as well as perhaps updating the guidelines posted at http://groups.drupal.org/guidelines-for-forming-new-groups
Any thoughts on this?
Comments
I'm in favor of this idea. I
I'm in favor of this idea. I think the plan in http://groups.drupal.org/node/70433 is still really key to the site as we add more and more groups that have some overlap, but in at least some cases we shouldn't let that be a road block.
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This sounds good to me as well
It would also be good to get a wiki page of all university/college specific groups as a way of showing where Drupal is being used/where there is interest.
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