[WebPub] Presentation: "Re-Imagining Web Development at MIT"

[Jay Sitter]

Thanks Ed, this looks great.

I’d love to be as involved as I can in efforts to organize our web development practices. One thing that I’ve been doing in my spare time is building a kind of "MIT bootstrap," one part of which is a GitHub repository of Sass and CSS to generate brand guideline-adherent MIT branding for sites, including a CSS-based SVG MIT logo, as well as Sass variables for the various MIT branding colors, etc.

I think there are a number of things we could do to improve, coordinate, and standardize web development across the institute, and make it easier for web developers to share resources and re-use code whenever possible.

What specifically do you have in mind for this meeting? Some things I can think of on my wishlist for MIT web development

- Shared repositories on GitHub for most of the things below
- A coding style guide
- An "MIT Bootstrap"
- An MIT "CDN"? In how many places is a gif of the MIT logo hosted on our servers?
- A more active social community, on Yammer for instance, mailing list, blog, regular get-togethers, and knowledge-sharing presentations like mine on Sass
- Guides/presentations on development tools such as:
	- Sass
	- Git
	- Grunt/Gulp
	- Vim/Sublime/Atom
	- etc.

Thanks so much for taking up this task; I think this kind of push is something that’s been sorely lacking at MIT.

Please let me know how I can get involved!

Best,
Jay

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On Sep 17, 2015, at 8:55 AM, Edmund Carlevale <ecarl at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I’d like to invite you to a presentation I’m giving on Monday, “Re-Imagining Web Development @ MIT.”  Basically, I’ll be presenting the MIT-specific Drupal distribution I built for the MIT Energy Club, but the larger discussion has to do with web development more generally at MIT. I go into more detail on the MIT Drupal Group website: http://drupalgroup.mit.edu/.
> 
> __________________________________________________________
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> Monday, September 21, 2015
> Re-Imagining Web Development @ MIT
> Speaker: Ed Carlevale | MIT Drupal Group
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> Time: 3:30p–4:30p
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> Location: 10-250
> 
> A review of current web development options at MIT with a focus on functionality and maintainability, followed by the presentation of a Drupal-based, MIT distribution used to build a variety of large-scale sites, featuring full documentation for all levels of users and developers, and new functionality. The distribution is geared primarily to MIT research centers, but the functionality is relevant to all web development at MIT.
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> Web site: http://drupalgroup.mit.edu
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> __________________________________________________________
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> 
> I hope you’ll be able to make.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ed Carlevale
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