On Wednesday December 18 members of the Acquia team (our cloud based Drupal Vendor) will be on campus presenting on the benefits of Drupal in higher ed and the state of their platform.

Anyone involved or interested in web projects is encouraged and welcome to attend. Feel free to come to any or all sessions that fit your schedule or interest. However please be sure to RSVP, if you have not received the calendar invite, e-mail me (richard.vonrauchhaupt@stonybrook.edu) or Kerrin (kerrin.perniciario@stonybrook.edu)

This is the tentative schedule.

11am-12pm: Drupal Overview: Presented by Acquia
Why Drupal? Trends in Higher Education

12:15pm: Lunch
During this time I will be outlining our current Drupal support model, discuss best practices in module selection, environment configuration and themeing. Followed by a quick demo of our new responsive theme “Unity”

1pm – 2pm: Intro to the Acquia Platform Presented by Acquia 
Discussing the features & benefits of the Acquia Platform

A Q&A session with the Acquia and DoIT staff will follow. One on one sessions with the Acquia team can be arranged upon request. 

Again, feel free to contact us with any questions.