Drupal has enjoyed widespread user-driven adoption in the education space, but what does it take to go from grassroots traction to a sustainable/standard option campus-wide? The central IT web team at Cornell has gone through the entire journey, starting with having to deal with Drupal as one of many technologies popping up organically all the way to promoting Drupal as a centrally-brokered platform for web development at the University.
Video here: https://events.drupal.org/baltimore2017/sessions/cornell-university-case-study-drupal-centrally-brokered-platform-web
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Drupalcon Baltimore Cornell Case Study: Drupal as a centrally-brokered web platform
1. Drupal as a Centrally-Brokered Web Platform
CASE STUDY
2. 3-MINUTE VERSION OF THIS TALK (TL;DR)
โข University IT has a distinct set of challenges
โข Need to support a wide range of clients: canโt easily say โnoโ
โข At the same time, strong push to standardize and economize
โข Drupal presents great opportunity, but also some challenges
โข Figuring what to standardize, where, and how, is key
โข Flexible and scalable infrastructure lets you focus on that
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3. JOSH KOENIG
My Perspectives:
โข Pantheon Co-Founder
โข Head of Product
โข Long-time Drupal Evangelist
โข Agency Principal (Chapter Three)
โข @outlandishjosh
4. RYANN LEVO
My Perspectives:
โข Hosting Engineer - Cornell IT
โข Architected โThe Cornell Stackโ
โข Presenter at Cornell Drupal Camp
5. SHANNON OSBURN
My Perspectives:
โข Assistant Director - Cornell IT
โข CIT Web Group (Custom Development)
โข Focus on PM and business
โข Organizer of Cornell Drupal Camp
6. IT AT CORNELL
โ IT across Cornell is huge:
everything from network
jacks to graphic design.
โ Operates on a cost-recovery
model.
โ Web Group provides a
number of different services.
7. โข Kind of like an โInternal Agencyโ
โข May get brought in to do the
whole project.
โข Also may just be asked to
provide hosting / support.
โข Specializing in PHP for Apps
โข Drupal hits a โsweet spotโ
CIT - WEB TEAM SERVICES
Web
Design
Custom
App
Hosting &
Support
8. The Drupal Advantage for Cornell
โ No license fees or fixed costs to adopt
โ Already widely used โ lots of prior art and best practices
โ Flexibility to customize / no vendor lock-in
โ Blend sites and apps together
โ Bringing together โboth sides of the house.โ Business is
skyrocketing :)
โ Much faster time to market
โ Campus community is a boost
THE DRUPAL ADVANTAGE FOR CORNELL
16. WEB TEAM WANTS
โ Outsource to experts where
they are experts/leaders.
โ But without losing agency!
โ Focus on delivering
strategic value.
โ Leverage the most scarce
resource of all: our time.