The Stanford CrucibleInnovation, Plurality, and Drupal

Drupal Business SummitSan Francisco2 December, 2010

Zach ChandlerAcademic Computing Stanford University

Organizational Culture• Stanford prizes innovation, deeply embedded in our culture:

science, technology, entrepreneurship, academic rigor

• Die Luft Der Freiheit Weht

• Autonomy of departments, institutes, and centers

• Computing environment: many CMSes in competition, Drupal is not the official platform … yet

• Drupal's open architecture, protean nature, matches Stanford's organizational culture

Drupal Community• SU has a vibrant Drupal community

• 223 members of the Drupallers List

• 152 Drupal articles on TechCommons

• buy in from central IT came later, started with grassroots

• MoCs and informal networks

• We just had our own summit, and it was awesome

100+ websites

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Drupal Deployment

• a present-tense proposition

• autonomous units “voting with their feet”

• Stanford outsources a lot, so we founded Jasper Group

• Drupal groundswell — a more disciplined, centralized deployment is imminent

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