[Editors] Update on MIT Drupal Cloud

[Robyn Fizz]

Hi Chad (and Editors Club members),
 
Myra Hope Eskridge, who leads IS&T's Drupal Cloud strategy team, is out of the office this week. The team will wait for her return to discuss your request and get back to you on next steps. Thanks for sharing your ideas about making the Drupal Cloud road map and processes more open to the community.
 
Regards,
Robyn


On Jun 9, 2015, at 8:53 AM, Chad Galts <galts at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi Robyn,
> 
> I’m a little late on this reply, but I’d like to ask if you and/or Myra can make this process more public. It would help all of us to see what other people are looking for, and it would be useful to understand how these requests are being weighed and/or queued up in the development process. 
> 
> For example, there was a recent request in SoE for a more automated way to drawn course-schedule information into departmental websites, and I would like to see News Office content repurposed in the same way. I  don’t think these are isolated needs — but it would be nice to have a clearer sense of how shared they actually are. Even if the process itself isn’t public and someone from IS&T typed up a simple description of the roadmap for durpalcloud, I think many of us would benefit from knowing what the plans are.
> 
> Let me know what you think. Thanks,
> 
> -c
> 
> 
> Chad Galts | Director of Communications | MIT School of Engineering | 617.253.9411
> 
> 
> 
> On May 28, 2015, at 3:41 PM, Robyn Fizz <fizz at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> Rachel Kemper asked a good question about the Drupal Cloud service: Is there a way for users to pass along requests and feedback?
>> 
>> I pinged Myra Hope Eskridge and here is her reply (below the line).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Robyn
>> 
>> ------------------------
>> 
>> Thank you for asking! Lots of folks have expressed interest in helping us revamp the service, and I’m excited to hear what people have to say. 
>> 
>> We have a new suggestion box at this address: drupalcloud-feedback at mit.edu. Email sent to that address will go to me, to the drupalcloud ops team, and to the workgroup members. 
>> 
>> Myra Hope
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 27, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Robyn Fizz wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> 
>>> I wanted to share a message from Myra Hope Eskridge, the IS&T business systems analyst who is leading the effort to improve MIT's Drupal Cloud service for building websites. With no further ado, here it is.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Robyn
>>> 
>>> ---------------------------------
>>> 
>>> At a recent meeting, Editors’ Club members shared questions and concerns about ease of use, plans for enhancements, and other elements of the MIT Drupal Cloud platform. After hearing this feedback, IS&T's senior leadership asked me to lead a working group to assess the Drupal Cloud service overall.
>>> 
>>> We have convened and identified these primary areas of work:
>>> 	•        Refine our Drupal Cloud support model 
>>> 	•        Improve our documentation and training media
>>> 	•        Install updates to the Drupal core version and current Drupal modules, as well as bug and security fixes
>>> 	•        Begin to identify a roadmap for Drupal Cloud enhancements 
>>> That last bullet is key: many of you are Drupal Cloud users and therefore our best source of feedback. We anticipate that the work outlined above will take us through August. As the work progresses, I will keep you posted and look for your input on the shape of the MIT Drupal Cloud service moving forward. 
>>> 
>>> Together we can make this service easier to use and to customize. Thanks in advance for collaborating with us.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Robyn Fizz
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