[WebPub] [abcd-www] TODAY - October 10th - Ferdi Alimadhi - OpenScholar

[Tremonte, Donna]

Sorry for any confusion, the presentation is today at 3:30pm in Lamont Library. Please RSVP for non-Harvard ID access if you haven't already. Thanks!

From: <Tremonte>, Donna Tremonte <dtremont at oeb.harvard.edu<mailto:dtremont at oeb.harvard.edu>>
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:05 AM
To: web-pub <web-pub at mit.edu<mailto:web-pub at mit.edu>>
Subject: [WebPub] [abcd-www] TODAY - October 10th - Ferdi Alimadhi - OpenScholar

Dear all,

ABCD WWW/CMS would like to announce the presenter & topic for next week's joint meeting!

We have the privilege of hearing from Ferdi Alimadhi, software architect at IQSS.

The talk is on “<http>OpenScholar<http://scholar.harvard.edu> - SAAS solution for academic institutions” and here are the details:

Lamont Library, Forum Room
October 10th, 2012 @ 3:30 – 5:00

NOTE: Attendees without a Harvard ID card need to RSVP (to
dtremont at oeb.harvard.edu<mailto:dtremont at oeb.harvard.edu>) for entry to the library.

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OpenScholar - SAAS solution for academic institutions

We will talk about OpenScholar as a SAAS website builder application. How we leverage Drupal  to build a multi-tenant application where a single install of the software hosts multiples websites<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu>. How academic institutions can take advantage of OpenScholar to offer web support to their constituents and also address some of their common challenges in the digital space, including cost, institutional repositories, identity/branding, and searching.

Bio:
Ferdi Alimadhi is a software architect with more than 15 years of experience building software applications of different scales.  He currently works at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University leading the OpenScholar project. He is also the lead architect for the Harvard Web Publishing Initiative.

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