Neit2009+Open+Space+4+K

Open Space4 - K Conference House Azalea Room = Drupal is Amazing!!! Adam Gerson, Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School = John McDonald, Packer Collegiate

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collaborative notetaking site: http://etherpad.com/LyhdpHYeti

examples old site: www.cgps.org drupal site: groups.cgps.org [] [] [] [] []

Drupal == CMS (content management system) not a blog

competition: Joomla, Mambo

Drupal is technically a Framework - kind of like a skeleton and you can add the flesh as you see fit. It provides basic functionality - pages, stories, blog, etc.

Drupal = stem cell of content management systems?

(did we mention it's amazing?)

Hard to find great themes for free (but you can always pay for one)

LDAP auth, Blackbaud integration - new account registration (for parents): when creating account, only allows creation if e-mail matches existing record in SIS

Potential problem: huge amount of customization by Adam -- what happens if someone else takes over its maintenance?

There are ***lots*** of drupal people out there who could be hired to work on your drupal site. Also, anyone who knows php can get in there and with some reading fix/adjust/create functionality.

very extensible, granular permissions, highly customizable

nodes - pages, add-ons

content types - article, blog entry, etc. - defines a type of content - have customizable fields (date, expiry, etc.) - drag/drop editing of content types

views - graphical SQL query creator - allows you to create new nodes

panels - organizational elements structure - seems to be more of a page builder - builds out & organizes the display of content on a page

Very simply, Taxonomy is tagging with system-wide consistency - parents can subscribe to specific content types they're interested in (actually, they would subscribe to a feed of a taxonomy term which could deliver to them a variety of content types that have all been tagged with the taxonomy term)

Myth of Drupal: you need to be a programmer to use it - Adam says no, but you need to be a tinkerer and fairly happy in unix/linux/(MySQL? PHP? what else does it use?) admin - major time commitment

administration - minor upgrades (subversions) are fairly easy - major upgrades (full versions) usually break all modules (!) -- but major upgrades are great in terms of new functionality - they maintain security & patching for 1 version back - MAMP - Apache, MySQL, PHP administration all-in-one -- but don't use if you already have MySQL on your box already -- []

[] is now a drupal site -Cool, that should make it easy to hack. Wonder if they update promptly... yes. Open source doesn't == easily hackable, means the full community is able to build better code to _prevent_ hacks.Ah, but it means the vulnerabilities are well known - if you don't update regularly, you're at risk. True. So must be updated regularly! And the White House is a distinct target. Yes, probably more than our schools...infinitely more.

Modules in use: - photo gallery - lunch menu - calendaring (good for events, not collaborative calendaring) -- but could use Google Calendars embedded in Drupal - admin menu - [] - gallery integration - video

- [] - [] - repackages Drupal, sells it + support - $2500/yr e-mail support, $5000/yr phone support - [] - photo gallery - New York/LA-based Drupal consulting group: [|http://www.databasepublish.com/] - Educators who opened up their own Drupal consulting gig - [|Funny Monkey] -- has iPhoto plugin -- example: []
 * resources:**

BOOK Using Drupal: []

We interview Richard Kassissieh from Caitlin Gabels school who is an amazing Drupal master on EdTechTalk: []. Richard's blog has a ton of resources on Drupal, too: []

Monthly meeting of NY Drupal users: see []

Drupal sandbox for follow-up session: http://www.dehelpful.com/drupal username: admin password to be announced at session - be there or else!

FTP settings, for adding modules, etc: host: dehelpful.com username: admin@dehelpful.com password:

Attendees & emails (add yours, please ;) Sean Dagony-Clark - sdc@riverdale.edu Adam Kenner kenner@horacemann.org John Hutzler - john@heschel.org Peter Vinogradov - pvino@me.com Andrew Katz - andrew.katz@roxburylatin.org arvind grover - agrover@hewittschool.org Vasil Bury vbury@ecfs.org kerri richardson-redding krichardson@brooklynfriends.org