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Who we are
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Web consulting services
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What we do
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Shared Web Hosting
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Contracted dev
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Core services
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Core services
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Drupal + ASU Webauth
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ASU (Zen) theme
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Enterprise Drupal
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Enterprise Drupal
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Support & consulting
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Community
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How’d we get here?
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asu.edu in 2006• Over 1 million pages; ~500,000 hits per day
• Fractured online services; Decentralized IT
• Little collaboration and cooperation
• All kinds of CMSs (or lack of CMS) and languages
• Lack of single university-wide vision for user experience
• No uniform brand
• No universal navigation
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2006: Balkanization
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2010: Drupalized
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Biggest obstacle: Politics
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Politics
• Territorial site ownership
• No incentive to unify
• No supported tools
• No community
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The approachThe velvet glove
a.k.a.Carrot vs. stick
Make Drupal so tasty people can’t resist moving to it.
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Tactic #1:Tools
• Standard platform (Drupal + modules)• Standard environment (shared hosting)• Standard branding (theme)
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Tactic #2:Community
• Web Community• ASU Drupal Users Group• Drupal Office Hours• Training: Lullabot / ASU• Support & Outreach
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Today
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• Buy-in from key players• Web hosting environment: 25 servers
w/ ~100 sites each• Core sites in Drupal: libraries, news,
student services, etc.
• Enterprise environment• Consistent look; global templates;
Drupal sites use central theme• Consistency in apps (modules)• Improved repurposing of content
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Hosting environments
• Shared hosting
• High-performance
• Enterprise
• Cloud
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Future
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Challenges
• Clean up the mess we’ve made
• Address growing pains
• Cloud / hosted services
• Tools dedicated to Drupal hosting (i.e. Aegir)
• Data: Usage statistics
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Challenges
• Change is slow and difficult
• Institutional perception
• Prove Drupal as legitimate
• Focus support efforts
• Training
• Mobile
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Positive outlook
• Despite the challenges, we’re in a great position.