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I’m making <a href="http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=16471903&date=2015/9/21" class="">another presentation (Monday, 3-4 pm, 3-370)</a> this one a straightforward technical demonstration of functionality and site development in the context of the major
changes bundled into Drupal 8.
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<div class="">As part of the presentation I start with an overview of Drupal development at other top tier schools and <a href="http://drupalgroup.mit.edu/content/drupal-other-universities" class="">have started to post that information here</a>. I’ve only
done Stanford and Berkeley so far (with Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale and CalTech next). But it’s already very much worth a look to get a sense of what’s happening development-wise at other top tier schools. Stanford and Berkeley (and MIT Medical) hosts their sites
on Pantheon, and Dartmouth and Harvard on Acquia Cloud. I host my MIT sites on Pantheon. I knew what they were doing must be amazing because their developers are all over various discussion boards, but you really should check it out.</div>
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<div class="">The thing that jumps out at me is <a href="https://ist.berkeley.edu/services/catalog/web/drupal" class="">Berkeley’s pricing plan</a> The $75 monthly plan is what I would love to see take hold at MIT. The <a href="http://mitenergyclub.org" class="">MIT
Energy Club website</a> is on this plan, but Pantheon charges us $100 per month because there’s no group discount. But I have the Energy Night website, and all the different stand-alone energy community websites (e.g., Joules, Solar, Wind, etc) running on
Organic Groups within the club’s main site, and I still think it’s a bargain for $100 monthly, or $1200 yearly. And I have the <a href="http://mitenergyconference.org" class="">Energy Conference</a> and <a href="http://cep.mit.edu" class="">Clean Energy Prize</a> sites
each on the $25 monthly plan.</div>
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<div class="">In any case, please invite your department’s Administrative Officers and research center’s Program Managers and other administrators to Monday’s presentation. This is an Institute-wide discussion, with ideas and structures that I haven’t yet seen
at MIT but which are the norm at peer institutions. Drupal 8 is going to take all this to yet another level and the time to understand and embrace that, or develop alternative strategies, is now.</div>
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<div class="">Best,</div>
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Monday, October 05, 2015</h1>
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MIT and Drupal 8: Getting from here to there</h1>
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Speaker: Ed Carlevale | MIT Drupal Group</p>
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Time: 3:00p–4:00p</p>
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Location: <a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=3-370&mapsearch=go" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 51); text-decoration: none;" class="">3-370</a></p>
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Drupal 8 is currently rolling out and it introduces significant changes to Drupal's back-end that will strengthen Drupal's entrenchment within MIT and other universities, and also bring significant changes on the front-end. But getting from here to there, with
MIT???s mix of Drupal 6 and 7 sites, is the current challenge. This presentation will discuss Drupal's new functionality, its relevance to MIT, and suggest pathways for moving forward during the coming year of transition.</p>
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