This group was formed out of a meeting of minds at DrupalCon San Francisco 2010. The idea is to promote Drupal adoption on public California University campuses. This group overlaps with the education groups available, but the mission is different. This group is specifically focused around evangelizing for Drupal adoption on California University campuses and sharing available resources among those campuses.
This is an especially important time for promoting Drupal as both the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems are looking towards moving IT Services into cloud services. These offices are not yet aware of the adoption rate and impact of Drupal on campuses state-wide and a group is needed to both evangelize/advertise that fact and also to promote further adoption on campuses.
When posting to this group, please also cross-post (just check another checkbox) anything that is not California specific to the Higher Education group as well.
Drupal Camp Sacramento Area 2011
The Sacramento Drupal Users Group is pleased to announce the first ever Drupal Camp Sacramento Area.
This auspicious event will be two days full of sessions, BoFs, code sprinting, and engagement. Registration is now open and session proposals are now being accepted.
Important Information:
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29, 2011
Location: University of California, Davis
Cost: FREE!
Registration and more info: http://sacdrupal.org
CATS 2011 - Drupal in the CSU
Here is a PDF version of the talk I will be giving on Wednesday. If anyone has any suggestions about further topics to discuss, or would like to join in presenting on Wednesday then please comment here.
Everyone in California higher-ed should be able to access the presentations at CATS 2011. See the schedule here: http://confsys.csuprojects.org/daily_schedule.cfm?confid=21 and sign up here: http://confsys.csuprojects.org/register_user.cfm
Drupal Adoption and Collaboration in the CSU
Next Gen Technologies, Co-presentation/Panel
Drupal Presentation at CATS 2011
Hi everyone,
First of all, apologies as always for the slow pace of things, but rest assured, we have a strong group and there are enough contributors to ensure we will thrive for some time to come.
That said, in two weeks, On April 13th at 2:15pm PST I will be giving a presentation on Drupal to the CATS conference. See the description here: http://confsys.csuprojects.org/session_detail.cfm?sessionID=564&Occurren...
Or read up more on what CATS is about here: http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_conferences/cats-2011/home
Call for co-presenters
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Drupal Camp @ Stanford
Please join us @ Drupal Camp at Stanford University
https://drupalcamp.stanford.edu/
Using Open Atrium to share and collaborate around innovative ideas
Great use of OpenAtrium in Education:
Read moreThe Department of Education is using Open Atrium to allow its employees to share and collaborate around innovative ideas that could help improve both the Department's work and education in general in the United States. The main feature of the site, which is called Idea Engine, is the ability for users to post ideas that other users can then vote and comment on. The "Ideas" feature works inside and outside of groups, which allows for both macro-level and smaller team-focused collaboration.
First release of http://www.drupalcalifornia.com
I am pleased to announce the launch of http://www.drupalcalifornia.com (running on Drupal 7)
The site is designed to be a showcase for Drupal sites on California University campuses (especially CSU & UC systems).
I hope you will understand that the site is a work in progress, and it needs your help! You can help by adding your site to the Participant List wiki page or by sending me a message.
Read moreWhat installation profiles and distributions are you using or plan to use?
We are evaluating various of the latest options for creating campus sites using Drupal. In addition to the always fun joy of installing all sites manually whether using multisite and drush or not, I'd like to discuss the options for mass installations.
There are now quite a number of distributions and installation profiles that can be used:
Focused on education
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DrupalCamp LA @ UC Irvine, August 7-8, 2010
Mark your calendars for DrupalCamp LA 2010, Saturday & Sunday, August 7-8th, 2010, taking place at the University of California, Irvine campus in the city of Irvine, Orange County, California. Registration is now open. Attendance is free.
California Open Data contest
http://www.ca.gov/appsforcalifornians/
Could possibly be a way for some of us California folks to work towards exposing Drupal by creating some Drupal-powered open data apps?
Read moreAcquia hosting presentation & discussion
Acquia would be willing to give a presentation to the California Higher Education professionals here regarding hosting options. Hopefully, many of us could agree on a good time to engage in this discussion. Anyone have any suggestions?
I'll start by suggesting a weekday sometime next week or perhaps later in June when we could get some consensus.
The idea here is to establish a cost-benefit analysis of various hosting plans, starting with Acquia and then hopefully pinning down more details with other hosting companies.
Read moreYale's transition to Drupal
I found this presentation today from the guys at Yale who transitioned to Drupal: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5585354/Drupal_On_Demand_PICC10.pdf
This presentation is for a technical audience, as it is mostly a discussion of the architecture. Very good stuff.
Read morePresentation on transition from IBM Websphere to Drupal @ SF State
Hi Everyone,
Here is a presentation I gave at the Berkeley Drupal User Group on Tuesday, and also will be delivering tonight at the South Bay LAMP meetup. It is basically a walkthrough on design and architecture decisions into current practices here at SF State.
Constructive criticism is welcome and encouraged. Also, it's in Powerpoint format but I made it on Ubuntu using OO Impress, so let me know if there are weird formatting issues.
Read moreHooray, new members, lets get a full list of campuses
Hi again everybody,
We had some more members join up, and I am very excited by the amount of campuses we have represented now.
Please, if you haven't already, had yourself to the list of participants here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/64018 or just add your campus.
I highly encourage everyone to create Amazon wish lists if you don't have them, as those who put a lot into Drupal may receive a wish list item at a random time as a token of my appreciation :)
Read moreWhat method would you prefer to see California universities roll out Drupal services?
Notifications: How to turn them on/off
Hi guys,
I don't want anyone to be discouraged by getting too much e-mail. If you would rather just read the discussion here or via a Feed Reader than look for Group Notifications in the lower right hand corner on this page, or if you go to http://groups.drupal.org/user and then select "Notifications" and then "Edit your Notification settings". There is also an option to turn off all notifications.
Read moreAutomated Drupal module accessibility and usability testing
Project description
Create an automated accessibility and usability tester for Drupal modules.
Project lead
Kevin Baily O'Brien | nowarninglabel | @nowarninglabel
Participants
So far I believe we've got the following that may be resources on this project
@katelynch
@ezufelt
brandonojc
@kevee
@bwood
List of California University / Government sites that are using Drupal
Last updated by icebox500 on Tue, 2012-02-14 14:54
Hi Everyone,
Please list any California University and / or Government websites that are using Drupal that you know of.
(Note: Be specific to California, there are already global lists such as http://groups.drupal.org/node/19885 and http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites which address sites globally). This is a wiki, which means you are free to edit it!
Sites using Drupal:
California College of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts
Posts that promote Drupal usage at Universities
Last updated by coderintherye on Sat, 2010-04-24 00:41
Hi Everyone, this Wiki page will server to aggregate posts that have been made that promote Drupal usage on Government websites/ University campuses. (Doesn't have to be just California, since we are promoting the cause in general). I'm going to make a separate wiki page for listing sites that use Drupal, so please just put links to post/stories up here. This is a wiki page, so feel free to edit it (in fact please edit it!)
https://www.stanford.edu/group/ats/cgi-bin/hivetalkin/?p=233 - Zach Chandler
Read moreWelcome to the California Higher Education Group
Greetings all. I met many you at DrupalCon, but not all of us have met, I'm Kevin O'Brien and I work for San Francisco State University. I want to keep the momentum going on getting a California State-wide university Drupal group together. (Hey If you can think of a catchy name/acronym that would be good too). In these times, I believe it is really important to share resources with each other, as many of us are most likely duplicating effort on each individual campus.
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