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Higher Education Summit
Using Drupal at a college or university? Attend this summit to connect with other Higher Education Drupal users, typically web developers, managers, communicators, graphic designers, editors and the like.
Learn from peer Drupal users and experts, working in a variety of contexts in the higher education sector, about the ever-changing Drupal and web landscape, including new trends and current best practices.
Expect small group discussions, lightning talks, a keynote, and other formats allowing you to engage with your peers.
The DrupalCon Higher Education Summit is informal, and focuses on best practices, case studies, and discussing solutions to the unique situations inherent to higher education.
Who should attend?
The DrupalCon Higher Education Summit is open to all higher education staff, volunteers, and service providers who are using, or considering using, Drupal as part of their technology stack. This summit is not intended for vendors to pitch new business.
What will you get by attending?
Attendees to the DrupalCon Higher Education Summit have a unique opportunity to network, collaborate, and learn about issues and projects central to higher education. Attendees can learn from other attendees during roundtable discussions, which provide excellent opportunities to knowledge-share and brainstorm solutions and perspectives.
When & Where
Time:
Tuesday, 20 April, 2021 - 15:00 to 19:00
Room:
Hopin Main Stage
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Fees
Included in the DrupalCon ticket
Contact
To attend the Higher Education Summit, click on the "Enter Summit" button and enter the password that has been shared with all the registrants via email.
Agenda*
| 11:00 - 11:05 EDT | Welcome Remarks |
| 11:05 - 11:50 EDT |
KEYNOTEMigrating to the New Frontier Lessons learned from migrating 300+ campus websites from a legacy CMS to Drupal and plans for upgrading 1000+ Drupal 7 websites. |
| 11:50 - 12:00 EDT | Break |
| 12:00 - 12:30 EDT |
SESSIONS |
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Communications Keep UC Davis, Town Healthy amid Pandemic In March 2020, UC Davis pivoted communications, working with the city and county to keep everyone informed and healthy. Learn what worked. |
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ImageX Sponsor Case Study Accessibility is not just about compliance, why the user should be at the center of your organization’s decisions. |
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Mediacurrent Sponsor Case Study |
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Composer/package management in higher-ed Members of the UT Austin ITS team will describe architectural decisions related to Composer for their campus Drupal distribution. |
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| 12:30 - 13:00 EDT |
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Editoria11y is a Step Towards Accessibility Auto-correct Authors struggle to format content “correctly” because our expectations outpaced our tools. Let’s fix this. Demo, ideas, and next steps. |
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Pantheon Sponsor Case Study How will Yale Sites, a Drupal 7 distribution, evolve in the 2020s? Hear lessons from yalecollege.yale.edu, one of Yale's first D8 sites. |
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| SeedMeLab: Hosting and managing rich data on Drupal An award-winning data management system for teams struggling with intractable data organization and data access. Amit Chourasia, Sr. Scientist,San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego |
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| Platform.sh Sponsor Case Study | |
| 13:05 - 13:30 EDT |
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS |
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The Advantages of Paragraphs over Layout Builder A discussion on our experiences with the tools and techniques that allow for more effective functionality |
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Paragraphs v. layout (Layout) A facilitated discussion about Drupal’s layout builder and the benefits of using it. |
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Paragraphs and Layout Builder Discussion A discussion on the pros and cons of using paragraphs and/or layout builder for controlling page layouts and content. |
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Drupal and Campus Pandemic Communications A continuing discussion for everyone on the strategies, techniques, successes, and failures of using Drupal for pandemic messaging. |
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| Paragraphs v. layout | |
| 13:30 - 13:55 EDT |
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS |
| Planning the move from D6/7 -> D8/9 on your campus Max Bronsema, Director, Web Communication Technologies, Western Washington University |
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Contributing back (code) A facilitated discussion about contributing code back to the community. |
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| Contributing back (non-code) Eric Sembrat, Director of Communications, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| Decoupled Drupal Paul Gilzow, University of Missouri |
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| 14:00 - 14:25 EDT |
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS |
| Branding and how marketing ties into website Janet Cowey, Director of Marketing and Web, San Jacinto College Linda Harrison, Web Content Manager, San Jacinto College |
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Composer Package Management Continued discussions on package management with composer, extending the session of UT Austin. |
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| Web performance Erik Runyon, Technical Director, University of Notre Dame |
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Automation and DevOps |
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| Automation and DevOps John Bickar, Senior Web Developer, DevOps Lead, Stanford University |
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| 14:25 - 14:50 EDT |
BREAKOUT DISCUSSIONS |
| Hosting options John Boyer, Programmer Analyst - Principal, University of Missouri |
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Campus Drupal Communities-of-Practice A roundtable discussion on how to build and sustain a thriving campus community around Drupal. |
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Creating a consistent UX across multiple platforms How can a design system be used to create a consistent brand and user experience across multiple applications and websites? |
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Campus Assets: Working with Centralized vs. Decentralized Teams A discussion of strategies for establishing an asset repository (within any type of team structure) and the high-value output it provides. |
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| 14:50 - 15:00 EDT | Final Thoughts and Summit Wrap Jessica Hayes, Service & Support Analyst, SiteFarm, UC Davis |
To attend the Higher Education Summit, join us on the Hopin platform. Password has been shared with all the registrants.
Meet the Summit Leads
Sponsors
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