Uncoverong Stanford's engagement with the Drupal community, how the enterprise leverages open source, and what we gain by bringing open source software, and ways of working, into large scale implementations. Topics will include a brief history of Drupal product initiatives, and what we stand to gain by thinking like Product Designers.
5. What Stanford gains from Drupal
● state-of-the art web publishing
● innovation, flexibility
● freedom to pursue our own solutions
● security
● community
Drupal is a good fit for Stanford
“Die luft der freiheit weht”
Stanford in numbers
That’s a lot of projects -- actually that figure only represents “sponsored” projects
This environment creates lots of websites
Our Stanford Sites platform hosts over 1,000 websites
It runs on a stack of about ~100 modules but we only had to make a dozen or so ourselves
“many eyes tame complexity”
also helps with security threats
There is an insular local Drupal community at Stanford, but we interact with the global Drupal community
Shops that compete for business have individuals that are friends and colleagues;
Everyone comes together for DrupalCon
We can’t handle it all ourselves,
BUT Drupal companies exist!
This book should be considered required reading for companies that are delving into open source
Written 15 years ago, but still extremely pertinent today