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Introducing, Educating, and Training Drupal on campus

May 19, 2008
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Introducing, Educating, and Training Drupal on campus

Over the last couple of weeks I have been planning how to introduce, educate, and train Drupal to the Purdue University Drupal to the Purdue University campus. Although nothing is in place permanently, the introduce and educate parts will be done primarily through presentations on campus. To start the presentations, I first need to understand what steps the average "Purdue University web publishing user" performs just to publish a piece a content. Each department has their own way of doing things, so I will need to research and interview different departments to know what to present.

I have already conducted a few interviews: 2 faculty, 1 staff, and 1 grad student. Everyone but the staff interview agreed that it is too difficult to publish content through the university procedures. The staff interview doesn't surprise me; he is part of the IT group for the Foreign Language and Literature department (he is techy). Over the coming months I will publish my findings in detail, hopefully it will be helpful for another Drupal group leader reaching out to a university environment. (read more)