Neit2008_WebSitesOpenSources

Mohonk Thursday’s 1st Session: __Cordenia's Notes:__ Open source websites: Joomla & Drupal primarily discussed… Adam Van Auken shared: Wooster’s site, Joomla, Water & Stone, Oklahoma State's site Front end quality – is reflection of the designer,

WhippleHill – discussed … Joomla Templates – editing, creating in CSS (simple for those who know CSS) Basil Kolani - Consider the risk that open source = there’s no “support” – so, convincing your administration…

Arvind: External site – admissions - marketing Silver Point, Final Site & Whipple Hill – the major services that school head’s are aware of School heads are not being “sold” by the free open sources – Head’s first question is generally: What other school is using it? The modular stuff, that’s not out of the box can be tricky.

Shared: Database publishing.com, Funny Monkey – drupal support Created user groups for content control – used joomla a bit… The cost is not the selling factor of open source as much as the openness & access..

Michael Sullivan: Be aware of the hidden costs – such as the time that managing a site takes The coaches at his school are responsible for updating the scores – the content management is distributed among about 40 different people – they’re using FinalSite & a separate library site & there’s a link directly to that site, not externally available –He’s at The Gow School near buffalo.

Sean Dagony-Clark: When there’s no motivation to learn to edit the sites – distributing content management falls into the bottleneck line of whoever is responsible

David Wagenhaeim – also uses Drupal RCSNY.net, Screen scraping You’ve got to learn the terminology of the open sources He built out a query that simplifies it for his users who are allowed to publish There’s a filter that can be put into drupal that allows to post a cover of a book using a gui editor Inserting a picture can be tricky Uploading the image then using the link Open library.org, bitnami.org (application stacks) Your mileage may vary.

SIS – WhippleHill’s been putting money into that Web – BlackBaud’s been putting money into that

Amanda Buchanan – shared a bit about the business end

Content & Contract locking? Bob Ment brought up – with the closed sources (copy paste says Arvind☺), Sean D-C doubts that closed sourced companies will export their present content even though they tell you that the content is yours…. Marion Stein – shared an library open source: Opals KOHA – another shared source

__Sean's Notes:__ 11/12 - Web - open source [ http://www.woosternet.org ]www.woosternet.org - Joomla woosterschool.org - old site - WH Joomla template club (joomla art?) waterandstone.com - site design firm

drupalEd - education module for Drupal

oklahoma state uses joomla

databasepublish.com - consulting, museum sites

cost of paying for individual site management vs paying WH for development

out of box, doesn't have built-in permissions - can get plugins

Drupal rcsny.net

drupal has a book viewer - enter ISBN number, Drupal will display cover and info

tinyMCE editor

funnymonkey.com - Drupal consultant

bitnami.org - application stacks - software installers for open source apps

opensourcecms.org (or .com?) - compares apps

OPALS - open source library catalog