Title: Open Scholar as a Drupal Platform Speaker: The Open Scholar Team Date: Wednesday, 2/20/2013 (3rd Wednesday of the month) Time: 12:00-1:30 Location: CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262) For more information about Open Scholar please visit, http://openscholar.harvard.edu/

1. OpenScholar team
@scholar_harvard
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

2. Outline
‣ About us
‣ OS - Technical overview
‣ Development workflow / practices
‣ Hosting
‣ Support
‣ OpenSource & community
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

3. About us
‣ Ferdi Alimadhi
‣ Richard Brandon
‣ Dan Cabral
‣ Torman Cheng
‣ Chris Firth
‣ Matt Petrovic
‣ Oren Robinson
‣ Jon Sagotsky
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

4. Outline
‣ About us
‣ OS - Technical overview
‣ Development workflow / practices
‣ Hosting
‣ Support
‣ OpenSource & community
‣ News
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

5. OpenScholar is a SaaS platform
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6. OpenScholar is a website builder
application
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7. Built as a Drupal distribution
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12. Apps
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13. What is an App?
‣ A module
‣ It’s a collection of Drupal entities which
taken together satisfy a certain use case
‣ Create, edit, delete, display, filter, import
export publications
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14. What is an App?
‣ An app usually contains:
‣ Context
‣ Menu item
‣ Contextual links
‣ Content type(s)
‣ Views (listings)
‣ Widgets
‣ Settings / customization
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15. What’s an App?
‣ Build your web site one section at a time
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16. What’s an App?
A menu entry
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17. What’s an App
Context links
A menu entry
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18. What’s an App?
Widgets
Context links
A menu entry
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19. What is a App ?
Widgets
Context links
View
A menu entry
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20. What is a App ?
Customize “publications”
App
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21. Customizing an App
Text
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23. Widgets & Layout
Configurable, custom list of posts
Embed videos, images or external widgets
from any other web site.
Create slideshows on the fly
Get social
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25. Themes
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27. Vsite
‣ Content partition
‣ User partition
‣ Context
‣ Configuration overrides
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28. Content partition
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29. Content partition
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30. Content partition
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31. Vsite
‣ Content partition
‣ User partition
‣ Context
‣ Configuration overrides
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32. User partition
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33. User partition
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34. User partition
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35. Vsite
‣ Content partition
‣ User partition
‣ Context
‣ Configuration overrides
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36. Context
‣ Defines a section based on some
conditions
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37. Context
‣ Defines a section based on some
conditions
• Viewing a post that belong to a vsite
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38. Context
‣ Defines a section based on some
conditions
• Viewing a post that belong to a vsite
‣ Reactions: When context become active,
different events are triggered
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39. Context
‣ Defines a section based on some
conditions
• Viewing a post that belong to a vsite
‣ Reactions: When context become active,
different events are triggered
• Apply a particular theme, show “site
logo” + “site search” widget
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40. Vsite
‣ Content partition
‣ User partition
‣ Context
‣ Configuration overrides
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41. Drupal conf. /settings
Variable
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42. Drupal conf. /settings
Variable context
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43. Vsite overrides
‣ A formal way to override the value of site
wide settings or other configurations
• Drupal system variables
• Context
• Widgets
• Menus
• etc ...
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44. Vsite overrides
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45. Outline
‣ About us
‣ OS - Technical overview
‣ Development workflow / practices
‣ Hosting
‣ Support
‣ OpenSource & community
‣ News
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

46. Development workflow
‣ Everything in code !!
‣ Version Control (branching)
‣ Issue queue (github)
‣ Pull requests
‣ Test (travis-ci)
‣ Code reviews
‣ QA
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

47. Outline
‣ About us
‣ OS - Technical overview
‣ Development workflow / practices
‣ Hosting
‣ Support
‣ OpenSource & community
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

48. Hosting
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
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49. Outline
‣ About us
‣ OS - Technical overview
‣ Development workflow / practices
‣ Hosting
‣ Support
‣ OpenSource & community
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

50. Support
‣ Harvard
• Olark
• RT
‣ OpenSource
• Github
• Drupal groups
• IRC channel
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51. Questions ?
Wednesday, February 20, 2013