extension story of drupal

The Story of Drupalin

eXtension

eXtension CoP Workshop

Louisville, KY

30 June 2011

Background

• Why–Whining, grumbling, complaining . . .–Wiki hard to learn/use; people intimidated–Too many sites

The Process

• Evaluated alternative content management systems• Installed test platform (Drupal 6)• CoP designees tested• Survey of reactions• 2010 eXtension workshop• RESPONSE: +

• eXtension staff retreat-Aug 2010• Drupal Implementation Team

The Team

• Content staff– Ivelin Denev– Henrietta Ritchie-Holbrook– Amy Hays– Karen Jeannette

• Engineering Staff– Jason Young– Aaron Hundley– Daniel Nall– James Robinson

• CoP Reps– Jill Heemstra– John McQueen– Sue Hawkins

• Other eXtension Staff– Beth Raney– Larry Lippke

• Pilot CoPs– LPELC– Ag Energy

Sites Considered

• www.extension.org• about.extension.org• about.extension.org/wiki• cop.extension.org• collaborate.extension.org• faq.extension.org• aae.extension.org• events.extension.org

Principles

• Simpler, better, easy to learn• Reduce sites• Lose no content• Require minimal effort by CoPs• Enhance collaboration• Manage teams/groups• Ease subsequent maintenance• Enable tool enhancements as needed• Be ahead of technology curve (Drupal 7)

Result: CREATE

So: What is Different?

• Better– Common/familiar interface– Familiar WYSIWYG editor– Image insertion/editing– Tag field w/lookup– Customized views– Search capability– Group dashboard– Link to People communities– Workspace for any

community

• More better– Retrieval by workflow state– Consistent mgt of articles &

faqs (workflow)– Group calendar– Integrated attachment

upload– Flexibility of article titles– Some auto-tagging

So: What is Different?

• Not better– No DPL (maybe?)

– No automatic TOC (maybe?)

– No FAQ reports– No personal tags; all

shared tags– Image library not

tagged/categorized (yet)– No revision comparison

• More not better– Must update links when

replacing attachments– No templates

And: What is Not Different?

• Publishing to www.extension.org• Anyone w/eXtension ID has access• Workflow for FAQs• My contributions list• List/retrieval of revisions• Workflow history

So Let’s Take a Brief Tour

What’s on the Table?

• Notifications• Drupal categories• Image tagging/categorizing/searching• Video upload/editing using Kaltura• Enhanced searches (e.g., metadata, tags, categories)• Enhanced/additional content views• Revision comparison• Drupal as a publishing platform ????

Feedback/Questions

• Drupal AaE Widget• Drupal Feedback Forum• Keep in mind:

– Work in progress– Functionality still being developed (Drupal 7)– Performance is untested (e.g., group membership issue)

• Hands on workshop: 10:45-12:30• Learn sessions TBA• Special training sessions on demand