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It no secret that Drupal has enjoyed a strong growth trend in higher education. That's the good news. The bad news is that it's still hard to do, especially when the horizon is no longer building a single website or application, but to scale up successfully to provide a platform for an entire university. This panel of experts will reveal what is working.
Moderator: Linnea Williams, Stanford University
Speakers:
Christina Dulude, Dartmouth College
Brie Pendleton, Harvard University
John Bickar, Stanford University
Nancy Flowers-Mangs, Yale University
This panel will address how each of these institutions evolved their campus strategies over time, from a technical, as well as community perspective. Topics will include: the risks and rewards of running Drupal as a platform for a university with in-house resources; employing principles of product design in maintaining and growing a Drupal platform; revealing the pros and cons of Distributions vs. small Features loosely joined; building community and internal teams, support and training.
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Slide deck
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contact info? social media?
Do you guys have social media handles or other contact info? I was hoping to chat a bit deeper about your technical setup.
Christina's contact info
Hi Aaron -- I'd be happy to chat. I'm at christina.m.dulude@dartmouth.edu and @cdulude on Twitter.
Spot on
What a great presentation. The post-session buzz at the presenter's table was active and lasted for some time — meaning there's a greater need for this discussion to continue. There is the g.d.o group now: https://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education Wouldn't it be awesome to see this discussion continue there?
Great to see
Great to see so many enthusiastic participants yesterday! I think logical places for the conversation to continue are in the g.d.o group for Higher Ed, and the Edu Drupal Unconsortium.
You can reach me directly via my contact page on d.o (Christina must have a higher spam tolerance than I do, to post her email address on a public website :)
Perfect
Thanks, perfect format and wonderful speakers! Being a semi-new developer in a Higher Ed environment, I was relieve to hear that my duties and expectations are just as random as any other campus! Wish you four presented every day!