The document discusses OpenScholar, an open-source Drupal distribution for higher education. It was designed by Harvard University and is commercially supported by Acquia. OpenScholar provides features for user profiles, content management, and multi-site search. Merritt College is piloting OpenScholar to build departmental websites. The document also speculates on OpenScholar's business model and potential adoption in the community.
The document discusses OpenScholar, an open-source Drupal distribution for higher education. It was designed by Harvard University and is commercially supported by Acquia. OpenScholar provides features for user profiles, content management, and multi-site search. Merritt College is piloting OpenScholar to build departmental websites. The document also speculates on OpenScholar's business model and potential adoption in the community.
The document discusses OpenScholar, an open-source Drupal distribution for higher education. It was designed by Harvard University and is commercially supported by Acquia. OpenScholar provides features for user profiles, content management, and multi-site search. Merritt College is piloting OpenScholar to build departmental websites. The document also speculates on OpenScholar's business model and potential adoption in the community.
The document discusses OpenScholar, an open-source Drupal distribution for higher education. It was designed by Harvard University and is commercially supported by Acquia. OpenScholar provides features for user profiles, content management, and multi-site search. Merritt College is piloting OpenScholar to build departmental websites. The document also speculates on OpenScholar's business model and potential adoption in the community.
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OpenScholar Pilot Merritt College
OpenScholar Introduction
Drupal distribution for higher-education sector 2 main flavors
Harvard in-house development team Team lead Ferdi Acquia commercial service provider (exclusive?) Institute Quantitative Social Sciences Dataverse related project
Speculation
Commercial open-source business play ? First create a commons, then enclose it i.e build a commercial product and service on it Open source as marketing Harvard alumni
Bill Gates and Microsoft (x $ gazillion) Mark Zuckerburg and Facebook ($y bagillion) Gary King and OpenScholar + Dataverse
Hosted product like Drupal Gardens? Scholar.Harvard.edu > Scholar.Facebook.com ? Ubuntu is to Debian?
Merritt College Background
New Drupal 6 design agency built main website at www.merritt.edu OpenScholar will (might, could, is) build minisites or departmental and business unit websites http://project.merrittweb.org
Content management ok, could be smoother, TIME Image insert doesn't exist, wtf? Contact form needs configuring Book pages to booklets ui sucks, bottom page Real easy to break as admin (Strongarm, Features etc) Vsite layout module should be core... i.e. Skinr Document management ? How do you create a site with Project flavor? No longer 2 profiles...? activating Project Feature breaks sites How do you graduate a website (organic group) i.e. export content, could you use Deploy ? heyrocker
OpenScholar Aegir (not Merritt)
Aegir Rc1 + OpenScholar Beta 10 WORKS (on my machine Ubuntu 8, Ubuntu 10 PHP 5.3 troubles) Aegir masters Mig5, Anarcat, skwashd Aegir + Drupal Dev > 2000 + websites skwashd Hosting Koumbit.org pure Apache + MySql Hosting Omega8cc nginx + MariaDB Scripted installs ubuntu 10 or Omega8cc Octopus/Baracudda scripts user omega8cc
Future of OpenScholar
Harvard + Acquia + ? Other big vendors? Channel partners ? Other big sites ? Competitors/alternatives Chapter3/Stanford OpenAcademy
Official top-level commercial OpenScholar product-service line http://acquia.com/drupal-solutions/education
Community
Issue queue http://drupal.org/project/issues/openscholar?status= Group http://groups.drupal.org/openscholar a Project http://drupal.org/project/openscholar Possible, maybe, dunno new community site for OpenScholar
Expertise
Harvard Acquia commercial service providers UC Merced doing work redndahead Others? Proposed presentation at Stanford Drupal Camp
Alternatives
Open Academy (Stanford + Chapter 3 not opened yet) Aegir hosted? Domain access and/or Deploy based... Drupal 7 Organic Groups rewrite
