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Building small sites for the Harvard University

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Time: 
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 08:30
Track: 
Education Summit
Room: 
Paraninfo
Motivation: 

Some organizations need to manage a large number of websites. Universities like Harvard or the Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG) have this problem that has many heads: consistency, maintenance, development costs, complexity, different vendors. Drupal can help on many of these, but you need to be careful.

Brief Description: 

We'll see at some of the adventages that Drupal has for leveraging multiple websites for a single organization, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls we've encountered along the way.

- Multi-site vs Single-site
- Sharing themes and modules
- Sharing resources
- Strategies to simplify site complexity

Speaker's Biography: 
I really like free software and everything that it implies. Software, community, different business models, sharing economy, hippies, geeks, the hard drupalero life =P. Before getting to know Drupal I was using Symfony and Doctrine, I even was a Doctrine core committer back in those days =). Now I work in a small company in México we started in 2007 and have been working with Drupal since then. We try to not focus just on the business but also share a little with the community that has given us so much. Drupal Summit Latino in Lima (2011) gave me the opportunity to share some of this, and later we helped organize the Drupal Summit Latino in Guadalajara. We help on other Drupal events when we can and try to run a small company on the side =).
Language: 
Español
Audience: 
Beginner