Drupal Nights Hosted by BioRAFT - Blending Drupal Distributions for Custom Websites

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2013-09-19 18:30 - 20:30 America/New_York
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User group meeting

Drupal Nights Hosted by BioRAFT, Cambridge MA

Monthly camp style talk - 3rd Thursday of the month. Learn, network, eat, & enjoy!

Date - Time - Location

2013-09-19 - 6:30PM - Davenport Conference Room, 25 1st Street, Cambridge, MA 02141

Blending Drupal Distributions for Custom Websites

Speaker: Ed Carlevale

The best distributions come with terrific power and functionality, but so often they have to be reworked extensively in order to suit one's individual needs. Several of them deploy the Organic Groups module in brilliant ways, but sometimes one needs functionality beyond what these distributions provide out of the box. This is where Pantheon, a hosting and development platform, comes to the rescue. Beyond being so intuitive and powerful, Pantheon allows you to set up sandbox sites of each distribution, so that you can explore its functionality and detach as modular units only the functionality that you want. These modular units can pulled into your own websites.

Learn how to build on the work of the brilliant developers who built PantheonPanopolyOpen AtriumCOD (Conference Organizing Distribution), and Drupal Commons.

Bio

Ed Carlevale is a long-time (22 years) web developer at MIT, working in the area of energy and sustainability. He has created websites for top faculty, including Nobel Laureate Mario Molina and National Medal of Science Recipient Penny Chisholm and is currently working for the EBICS Program in Biological Engineering. As the founder of the nascent MIT Drupal Group, he has helped organize many Drupal events at MIT, including Dries Buytaert's "State of Drupal" (MIT World, 2009), Boston Design4Drupal Camp 2009 and 2010, as well as the monthly meetings of the Boston Drupal Group. Additionally, Ed contributed two chapters (Creating Community Websites with Organic Groups and Setting up a Drupal Development Environment with Dev Desktop) and completed book-wide editing of the infamousDefinitive Guide to Drupal 7.

To register for this FREE event please email: drupal.nights@bioraft.com

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This event will be live broadcast via Google Hangouts / YouTube starting around 7PM EDT. There will be a delay of a few minutes. Questions can be posted to the talk or to drupal.nights@bioraft.com.


Thoughts from Ed Carlevale

On developing community-based websites using Open Atrium, Drupal Commons, and the Pantheon distributions...

"The elusive goal of Drupal development has long been to retire the webmaster and elevate the user to Content Creator. The goal remains so elusive that the Drupal community will soon deny ever having had it. But I became a Drupal developer in 2007 for no other reason than this, convinced as I was that open conversation was the key to progress in the area of energy and sustainability, the focus of my work as a communications manager at MIT. An infinity of clicks later, I feel ready to take my first real step in that direction, courtesy of the powerful group-building functionality built into the Open Atrium and Drupal Commons distributions."

"At any rate, that's my cover story. My real agenda here is to introduce a new species into the Drupal ecosystem, namely the site maintainer. Most developers, bless their hearts, think their work is done when they hand over their pride and job to that category of people known as clients. Themers are no better in this regard. Both will be agog to hear the news that the real work of growing a website, of building a new community, only begins once the site goes live, and the day in and day out work of coaxing collaboration and input begins. When the limitations of the original idea are revealed. When no user does the x,y,or z that they should so obviously do. The only examples of the kind of site I have in mind are Drupal.org and Facebook."

"I've spent the summer fashioning my idea of the perfect Drupal website, borrowing hugely from Open Atrium, Drupal Commons, and COD -- actually, from all the major distributions -- to build my own perfect platform. Buckminister Fuller didn't dream more ambitiously than me. And I plan to spend the coming academic year working very hard to see what communities -- and conversations -- might grow as a result of this clicking."

About BioRAFT

The BioRAFT platform is an innovative solution for laboratory safety, compliance and training. Designed by scientific researchers to aid scientific research, BioRAFT streamlines and automates the training and compliance process while being easy for researchers to use, which reduces compliance and training overhead and increases researcher productivity.

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