http://elearning.psu.edu/projects

Last year I was able to talk about a lot of stuff and show it but not give it out. Now since Drupalcon Boston the eli is almost entirely open source. Everything I make goes straight towards Drupal.org and we are moving towards an OER / open development, more collaborative framework now with Views 2 and Drupal 6. I'm working on porting the last of my modules to Drupal 6.x and am always looking for people to meet up / collaborate with. Hopefully I can get some other people from Penn State there too cause we have a growing community locally!

Also over the last year I've started building out this resource and getting input from others: http://elearning.psu.edu/drupalineducation . Please join in / look it over as it's gotten some people on board locally and the more the merrier as development is concerned!

I haven't been to an education-focused BOF yet, so I'll be excited to join in on this one. In 2009, I expect my school (Jones International - http://jiu.edu) is going to start switching a ton of sites over to Drupal, converting our current PHP student dashboard over to Drupal social networking, and quite possibly changing our course development process over to Drupal too!

On my campus here are the drupal configurations that are floating to the top:

• Academic departments
• Libraries
• Research Projects
• E-journals

I could demo 3/4 of those, and we could hit them all if I bring a colleague with me. Would anyone else be interested in seeing what we've done and trade strategies and ideas?

Our campus is in the middle of developing a social networking / groups / student information system portal that touches everything on campus from registration to fees, holds, library accounts, print management, and more. I wonder if any other campus out there wants to talk about PeopleSoft, which is the beast SIS the CSU system is slowly adopting.

Loved getting together last year looking forward to it again. I'm interested in how people are managing the deployment of multiple sites. We've currently started the transfer of all our departmental sites over to our drupal installation. I expect that come March we'll have approximately 75 sites.

Excited to meet all of you. Hopefully we'll see some others from BYU there as well. BYU has tons of Drupal sites.

PSU too, I'll be trying to get some of them to come out of the woodwork now that they are starting to realize the power of being involved in the community {baby steps :) }

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/2110
My department @ PSU's trying to get a showcase session accepted. Help vote us in so we can get education represented at this bad boy!

As for the BoF, if anyone would be interested in working together to come up with a formal (somewhat) agenda for the event that could help us all hit the ground running. I know in boston Bill organized dinner plans and a BoF which lead to me having a mini-one at a later date/time. The more organization we can get ahead of time in terms of format the more I think we can all take out of it. I'd love to see what others are doing behind the scenes (and show you all what we're up to too)!

There are like 5 or more education sessions. I withdrew mine, there was more interest in hearing about ASU's websites. ASU alone has 3 proposals or so.

My group is using Drupal for departments, libraries, work orders, inventory tracking, collaboration, etc.

I (finally) put up my session proposal, "Building advanced social networks at a large US university." I'll be presenting on a number of interesting ideas we're experimenting with at BYU. Our interest with our site is creating student-driven communities of learning. I'll be summarizing much of the research I've put into what makes a really good web2.0 style community site hum.

You all are more than welcome to go vote for my session :)

Thanks!

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/building-advanced-social-networks-la...

We recently built several Drupal sites for Duke.
There were couple of custom modules developed including integration with a Faculty Database System (similar to Peoplesoft HRMS), integration with a Wordpress system, integration with Bedework enterprise calendar. Contrib modules were used to provide integration with NetID/LDAP database. A monthly online news magazine was also developed using custom themeing and modules.
We are building several other sites right now for research centers, grants management (incl. application, review and approval) for NSF, NIH, etc. grants for the university.

I am looking forward to hear what kind of applications others are building.
See you in DC!

We have also spent a year of building Drupal sites of the University of Illinois with custom authentication modules. Look forward to seeing what everyone else is up too.

See you all there!

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this BoF sounds great. We are also just getting started at Virginia Tech Engineering. Will be nice to see some focus on education and what other's have achieved.

Looking forward to this. A former colleague of mine from WSU Vancouver attended the Education BOF at DrupalCon Boston and had great things to say about the discussion. I'm now at UNLV and working on some Drupal projects here.

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When will the actual time of the meet up be decided?

Last year there was a big-ars white board that everyone could write down times / room numbers on. I'm not sure if they will be formalizing the process in anyway or if they'll just do the white board again. The board worked out pretty well though for communicating when people wanted to meet about certain topics. So for right now i'd say we shoot for that. Bill did organize a dinner meet up the first night last year to just get everyone out for a meal and informally talking which was pretty nice. I don't know of anywhere in DC to go yet and will probably try to get anything like that together in a week or two as I'm really swamped right now.

I'd shoot for a BoF meeting like the 2nd day we're all there? Just a suggestion so we don't miss any late people or early leavers.

Anyone up for getting together the Tuesday night before the conference starts? I'm headed to DC a few days early to be a tourist plus help set up Drupalcon on Tuesday.

So, as I looked through the accepted sessions I saw that a lot of people didn't get accepted (no surprise there). More so I noticed at least 2 or 3 education based ones that didn't get accepted ( mine included :\ ) so I'm starting to think that maybe begining to structure the BoF a bit would be a good idea. Last year we had everyone who wanted to give some mini presentations (like 5-10 minutes) and I think maybe that'd be a good way to go for this one.

Great way to see what people are doing and might even be able to get some there that wouldn't be able to go w/o presenting in someway. Here's some ideas I had for topic "sessions" if you will.

Drupal as an LMS - If anyone's out there doing anything like this I know a lot of people in the groups.drupal.org group have asked questions around this

Gradebook module discussion - It's miles more popular then anything I ever want to talk about in the group so I think it should definitely be a point of discussion if there will be people working on the module who will be there.

Feature Creep - I'm curious as to what people are looking for in terms of modules or if anyone has any module development ideas. This probably wouldn't be the best place to write them (given the mixed crowd that will most likely show up) but it could provide a discussion point for those w/o real programming experience to ping ideas off of those w/ tons of it to see if there's any overlap in needs.

Projects that I think others would be really interested in seeing based on forums / blogs / last year / session proposals...

ELMS - Plug for my own mindset here but Drupal's starting to infect PSU and I'd love to show off what we've been doing lately (been blogging a lot about it) with our new architecture. It's also very generically written and will be thrown together into a release (similar to DrupalEd releases) soon. It has it's own sandbox site now that I can start to give out accounts to people to play around with if they want too (1 click drupal-site / course builder seems to be getting people excited).

Alt^ Elearning - Saw the write up for ASU's session and it sucks it didn't get accepted (unless I just overlooked it in the 100s). I really wanted to see it and it sounds like something people would be interested in (got a lot of votes).

Amherst Monster Menus - project was the talk of the town last time out and has been in the discussion boards quite a bit as well; taking a guess that everyone would love to get an update if they'll be there.

Kyle Mathews @ BYU - Have seen some really cool Drupal usage in education from him and some of his modules have been talked about extensively in the group forums.

Bill / FunnyMonkey - With his recently written book (great read; must have for those in edu) I'm sure everyone would love to hear him speak on what they've been up to over there.

Anyone I'm forgetting, Don't mean to intentionally exclude anyone so if you'd like to propose something then please feel free! I just rambled off the major initiatives I've seen / could think of but I know everyone would love to see / hear more. We're all helping each other as it were.

Lastly, I think it would be cool to meet up for some dinners and what not. This probably doesn't have to be setup ahead of time (though it was last year) but I know personally I'd like to go around town and talk shop with whoever is willing to have their ear talked off :) or we could get big groups together like those interested in Drupal for Libraries, or for Courses, or for Social Networking in schools, or higher ed or K-12 or anything in between. I think the better we lay things out a head of time the more time we'll have for discussion at Drupalcon.

Hi all,

Several of us from Amherst will be there. I'll try and bring at least one of our development staff to the BoF this time. Happy to demo monster menus and talk about the other things we've added since last year. Looking forward to seeing folks. I wonder if we could try and get a sense of headcount and try and pull together a reservation for a dinner - last year attendance way outstripped seating. My SO is coming with me and she lived in DC for years. If we can get a rough headcount she and I can try and get us a reservation somewhere, hopefully with enough seating for all this time.

I'm game for that. Maybe we could get a smaller group together one night w/ all the developers for education too to talk shop w/ out boring everyone else w/ the details ;)

Is there any meetup time scheduled yet? I need to check the whiteboard I guess...

It doesn't look like there are any sessions directly related to education during this time slot on Friday. Should we meet from 10:15-11:15?

I'm be interested in meeting up with the group. Has a time/place been discussed yet?

I work for the College of Engineering @ Michigan State University and we deployed a number of sites using drupal inside and out of the college.

I just got here but maybe we can have 1 thursday so that it leaves room for a follow up Friday. I know last year things kinda were rushed in our BoF and I know there are a lot of people that want to talk / show each other up in their Drupal-ness. ;)

I'll go look at the board right now and make another posting when I'm standing in front of the board. I'm game for meeting up today as well if someone wants to meet later towards the end. I'll put something up there as most of what I want to see is tomorrow anyway. Look for the next few posts to come shortly and have times / days.

Room 140A

Wed (today) 6:00pm - 6:30pm

Agenda: Whatever anyone wants to talk about, figure we can hook up and see what people wanna do with thurs / fri / sat / WHENEVER. I'll be at least wanting to talk High-Ed and about the new ELMS stuff that's already available and infecting PSU at the moment but we'll talk about anything education related!

Come up with some topics based on today's discussion (wed) that people want to talk more about. It's also right before the Libraries BoF which I know a lot of people in education are interested in as well.

Room 141

Thurs 9:00am - 10:00am

Looking for the Friday BoF board now and I'll grab that timeslot you put down before.

I can't find a friday board where is it?

BTW anyone here atm getting these messages or reading this, AIM screenname is btopro and twitter screenname is the same. Message me if you want to meet up, esp. if your in high ed or interested in multisite / infrastructure / architectural work as related to education.

We're having a more focused B.O.F. also Friday during lunch. We should meet in the corner farthest from the bottom of the stairs where the food is in the concrete lunch bunker.

John Barclay, College of Education, University of Illinois

There are two sessions up on the board for education tomorrow, both in Room 140A with a break in between sessions.

Session 1 11:30 - 12:30
The first one is education more from an architectural, theme-ing, courses / infrastructure, multisite, LMS-like, Monster Menus, ELMS perspective. This is for people who want to talk about these issues as well as some more technical things. I'll be there to talk about ELMS if anyone wants more details on things and hopefully David Hamilton can stop by to talk Monster Menus. Anything's up for discussion though so please feel free to stop by if you want to talk / show off more infrastructure focused work. This is also a great place for "picking people's brains" as I know there are a lot of people that just want to ping questions off of others in this field.

Session 2 12:30 - 1:30
This is for people that want to discuss their front-facing / department / college / school / public websites within their colleges / schools / units. This is to get an idea of what everyone's doing, what some of the challenges have been, themes used, approaches taken in site creation and things of that nature. Everyone that's coming is open to present their sites as we're in a room w/ a projector so we can all see what we're doing and hopefully learn from each other.

Kyle Mathews is also presenting today (Thurs) at 11:30 in the OpenCalais Room. Here's a link to his stuff -- http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/building-advanced-social-networks-la...

Also, if your interested in getting a more personal tour of what we've been doing or want to go out for some dinner / drinks IM / email / tweet me (btopro bto108@psu.edu and btopro all respectively) as I'll be floating around and love talking about what we've been up to at PSU.