Posts tagged "DrupalCamp Austin"

I mentioned awhile back that one of my coworkers and I were considering putting together a simple resource site for Drupal users in educational contexts; today, http://drupaledu.org is live (many thanks to Acquia for providing the hosting)!

The initiative was born out of discussions at DrupalCamp Austin last fall; many of the folks we spoke with there were frustrated at how infrequently universities share information with one another on web issues. Since we at UNT CWS believe Drupal is a very useful tool in solving a lot of the typical web problems educational institutions face, we figured this kind of site would help tear down the silos and improve things for everyone.

At the moment, the site is very simple—authenticated users can post links to relevant outside sites, participate in forums, and vote on the usefulness of other user-contributed content. We hope the community will really get involved in this; the more people contribute content, the more useful the initiative becomes.

If this sounds interesting to you, please take a moment to check out http://drupaledu.org. And of course, if you have some Drupal-in-education-related content to share, please do; the more the merrier!

Last November my coworker Adrian Rollett and I got the opportunity to present a talk at DrupalCamp Austin; I've blogged about the content previously, but now that the video is up, I thought I'd post it here as well.

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Well, all this weekend's adventures seem to have paid off pretty well; I'm back now from DrupalCamp Austin and I thought I'd go ahead and review some of the things I took away from it all.

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So, I mentioned the other day that I'm going to DrupalCamp Austin this weekend, and that's certainly still true…however, it's been more of an adventure than I planned.

Jamie and I took off this afternoon around 5:00, excited for the weekend down south. The drive went well at first, but I think we might ought to have turned back when we saw the road on fire. Or when later on, our car just decided that accelerating wasn't hip anymore, and that it'd be better if we just sat by the side of the highway in the dark for awhile. (Despite several calls to the local highway patrol, nobody came to help us until we called the towing company instead.) Or when we ended up at the towing company office, and later at the neighborhood Sonic, with a pile of luggage, two small dogs, and no more car to speak of.

Fortunately, Jamie's brother and sister-in-law were kind enough to come pick us up and take us the rest of the way…so unless today takes another strange turn, I'll still be at DrupalCamp come morning.

Here's hoping :)

Here are some of the most helpful things I've learned about the Drupal features module in the last few weeks, written down in preparation for my DrupalCamp Austin deployment presentation this weekend.

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A couple of weeks back Adrian Rollett (one of my co-workers in the CWS office) and I submitted a talk proposal for this coming weekend's DrupalCamp Austin; we've been doing a lot of Drupal deployment research at work lately, and thought it would be worth sharing what we've found. The schedule was posted this morning, and it turns out we're in!

I'm excited to present; this will be my first time speaking at a professional conference, and I think the subject matter will be of interest to a lot of folks, especially people who deploy a lot of similarly-configured Drupal websites. Adrian will be leading off with a discussion of drush_make and install profiles, and I'll finish it up talking about the features module. Taken together, these three pieces of functionality make it possible to encapsulate your Drupal site's configuration in versionable source code, which in turn makes it one heck of a lot easier to redistribute those configurations as desired.