Museums and the Web
An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.
DrupalCamp for Museums
Abstract
The Drupal Content Management System (CMS) is free and open source software used for building highly flexible, interactive, and feature-rich websites. Regarded as one of the best website frameworks and development platforms available, it is rapidly gaining adoption by institutions as a solution to manage users and online content. Its combination of zero-licensing fees, thousands of available modules, customizable templating system, user access control, and ability to integrate with 3rd party systems makes it an ideal solution for museums to present their collections online.
This workshop will be conducted using a familiar “DrupalCamp” style, containing 6 mini-sessions covering a number of topics. Intended for a technical audience, including webmasters, programmers, system admins, front-end (UI) developers, and CTOs, attendees will walk away with a solid understanding of the principles used to build scalable Drupal-powered websites. Mini-sessions include:
- Drupal 6 vs. Drupal 7: Comparison and Benefits of Each
- Information Architecture and Drupal Architecture: Best practices, tips, and techniques
- Review of the Top 50 Contributed Modules on Drupal.org (and other, lesser-known modules we really like)
- Mariners’ Museum Case Study: Selling Merchandise, Events, Image Licenses, and Pay-walled Content with Ubercart
- Using Drush, Git, cPanel, and Other Modules to manage dev -> test -> prod Staging Environments
- Creating a Theme with the Zen Starter Theme
Type:
Workshop - full or half day
Authors
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R.J. Townsend is a local small business owner, entrepreneur, author, and overall techy/geeky guy with ten years experience using web-based technologies to bring ideas to life. He is the principal and managing partner of Cultivate Technologies, a Philly-based technical consulting firm specializing... |
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Sara Johnston is the President & CEO of A Touch of Technology, LLC. With formal education in graphic design emphasizing multimedia and advertising design, she is competent in all relevant design programs and languages such as the Adobe Creative Suite as well as HTML, XML, CSS, and the Content... |
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20+ years experience across a wide variety of IT-related fields, including hardware support, programming and software engineering, network engineering, communications, informatics, security, systems analysis and integration and applied computer science. |
Comments
by Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg - Feb 14 2011 - 3:08pm
Camp style?
Is this really a "Camp"? How are the sessions being organized? Who is leading which sessions? Is this open to anyone outside of the conference?
by R.J. Townsend - Feb 14 2011 - 4:54pm
Thanks for asking. This is a
Thanks for asking. This is a workshop conducted like a camp; there will be 6 sessions which Rick, Sara, and I will take turns leading.
**Edit** - Just saw David's response, people can attend the workshop without registering for the conference
by David Bearman - Feb 14 2011 - 4:37pm
Are pre-conference workshops open to non-MW2011 attendees?
The broader question may depend on the attributes you associate with 'camp-style' but I'll let R.J. respond to those...
On the narrow question of whether one has to register for the conference to attend the pre-conference workshops, the answer is no - some people attend just a pre-conference day for training purposes. Of course we always think that those people might benefit from attending the full conference too:-)
But you do have to register for pre-conference workshops, whether or not you are coming for the full conference: see the form online.
David Bearman