This isn’t a review of the excellent all-day session on using Drupal as a writing course community content management system, but just a way to say thanks to Charlie Lowe, Jim Kalmbach, Bradley Bleck, and Tim Lindgren (as well as some helpful long-distance commentary from Samantha Blackmon and Clancy Ratliff) for a great workshop. Kieran Lal assisted as well with some tutoring and a short and impressive presentation on CivicSpace, the reincarnation (?) of the DeanSpace distributed open source content management system designed specifically for the needs of a grassroots political campaign. I learned lots and lots and lots today — my brain hurts — and I’m looking forward to trying out some of Drupal’s way-beyond-just-blogging capabilities with my students in the fall.
My presentation’s tomorrow morning. (And, uh, I could still really use some help with a title.)
Wow–I’d be interested to hear more about CivicSpace, especially if the Dean name was mentioned in its background/reincarnation. Can’t wait to hear more and good luck today! I like the Paris and me, BTW.
I figured you might be, Daisy. Unfortunately, I only got the brief info from Kieran’s presentation, and he’s a much better person to ask. Still, the idea of designing social software for explicitly political purposes is fascinating; in some ways, the relation between the political agenda and the technological agenda seems to be inverse of whatCollin and Jeff were talking about a while back, at least in its sequence. Perhaps the lesson to be taken is that neither can precede the other.
Sorry that you got no input on the title and feel certain that you came up with an appropriate one. Hope the presentation went well.