Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #394 - Open Source in K-12 Education

Today we are talking about Open Source in K-12 Education with Stu Keroff.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/394

Topics
  • What is the Penguin Corp
  • Why is Open Source important
  • How can educators bring open soiurce to their classroom
  • How difficult is it to change from closed to open source
  • What are some resources
  • Youtube Channel
  • Hurdles to introducing open source
  • Types of software you’ve introduced
  • Sourcing hardware
  • What to say to the question: Why is this important?
  • Video games
  • Statistics
  • Homeschooling
  • How to help
Resources Guests

Stu Keroff - @studoeslinux

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Kat Shaw - drupal.org/u/katannshaw @katannshaw

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu H5P Provides a toolset for adding HTML5 rich content to your site: interactive videos, presentations, quizzes, games, and more.

The Drop Times: The Pleasure of Reporting Drupal

Journalism, in essence, is the job of painting a picture in the readers’ minds. Unlike actual painting, we don’t use colours. Instead, languages, words and letters fill our palette. We use it to report the facts that lie before us to a broader audience. The process of creating a news story is indeed complex. It requires us to go through layers of verification, self-doubt and delivering near-perfect write-ups within the deadline. If the work fails to entice pleasure or provide enjoyment, it becomes a meaningless burden.

At TheDropTimes (TDT), our journalistic work revolves around Drupal. Day in and day out, we fix our eyes on Drupal-related developments around the globe. We know there is a thriving community waiting for more news about Drupal. That’s the first stimulus of pleasure in reporting—Drupal is not just software. Drupal is a microcosm of human endeavour. The Free and Open-Source platform stands in the middle, surrounded by an ecosystem relentlessly working to improve it. The freedom that Drupal hands down to its users is yet another pleasure trigger. Who in the world dislikes space? Liberty opens the skies and lets magic rain. The same is happening with Drupal. In short, though reflecting upon the jargon-rich Drupal is a challenge for the soft-hearted, it gives us meaningful pleasure—the pleasure of reporting Drupal.

Check out the hand-picked stories from the past week:

To start with, TDT has launched a new series of blogs on its behind-the-scene tales. The first of the series, written by Vimal Joseph, throws light on the technology that powers TDT. Read how Drupal and Thunder distribution light up TheDropTimes.

Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s founder, has published a new blog post about the evolution of Drupal’s composability. This article introduces the readers to Dries’ blog and points out how Drupal will provide an ‘App-Store’ like experience. Dries’ earlier blog post was a myth-buster questioning the assertion that Static Site generators are faster than Content Management Systems.

To know about the automation of an e-commerce order on Drupal, read our take on the blog published by ComputerMinds. This article will be helpful for anyone interested in ‘Microsites’ developed by LocalGov Drupal and its ability to handle multiple sites. Also, see why Danny Bluestone thinks Drupal is the best enterprise choice.

The Drop Times is now a media partner for upcoming events like the Stanford WebCamp, Drupal Developer Days, Vienna and DrupalCamp Ruhr.

Drupal4Gov is hosting an in-person half-day event on the 18th. DrupalJam has opened the call for speakers. Drupal Diversity and Inclusion Camp dates are declared. The Melbourne Drupal Group is organizing another meetup on 13 April 2023. Florida DrupalCamp organizers have announced the dates for the 2024 edition of the camp.

Please read the article about Drupal Associations’ call to find community at DrupalCon Pittsburgh. Drupal Swag Shop is pursuing promoting sustainability through its products.

SpecBee’s new blog post offers readers a comprehensive guide to understanding display modes and their applications in Drupal. To clear any doubts regarding adding a JavaScript Library to an Emulsify component, refer to this tutorial. Any Drupal developer who wants to take their skills to the next level must not miss this online training scheduled on the 11th. A11yTalks has announced its upcoming meetup on 12 April 2023 at 6:00 PM EDT. The topic of the meetup is ‘Shifting Left: How CMS Accessibility Can Help.’

Global digital transformation services and product engineering company, EPAM, has been named a Top IT Sourcing Vendor in the Nordics by the independent research organization Whitelane Research. The Australian Web Industry Association has declared the finalists for the Australian Web Awards 2023. Morpht and other Drupal-based service providers have secured a place in the final list. Read the article to know more about the awards and the finalists.

A group of developers seeks responses from the Drupal community regarding the Field UI. Don’t forget to fill it out and help them improve Field UI’s performance.

Sincerely,
Thomas Alias K.
Sub-Editor

LN Webworks: Opigno:An Innovative Drupal based Learning Management System

A Learning Management System or LMS is a concept of eLearning that uses web-based technologies for delivering educational materials, courses, and training programs. LMS helps instructors create and deliver content on a platform that the students can access and learn from. This technology is generally used by businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, etc., for collecting, organizing, sharing knowledge, and training people. What is Opigno LMS Several learning management systems on the market facilitate eLearning, but when it comes to a customizable e-Learning platform, nothing can beat Opigno. It is a Drupal-based LMS that helps organizations effectively train and educate employees and members. This open-source LMS is powered by Drupal, a robust content management system with 124k active contributors and 1.39 million members around the world. Opigno LMS started its journey of offering a modern learning management system in 2013. Since then, it has succeeded in providing an exceptional learning experience by utilizing the flexibility and scalability of a Drupal CMS.

LN Webworks: Improve the Performance of Drupal Websites using Core Web Vitals

A highly optimized website can improve search engine ranking and user experience. As a result, such websites receive millions of visitors each day and provide a better customer experience, thereby boosting revenue. The goal of ranking higher on search engines is to attract the most traffic and relevant visitors to your website. In addition to providing a great user experience, optimizing a website's performance can also prevent visitors from switching to your competitors. According to studies, users are losing patience, and their attention spans are also decreasing. About 47% of users expect every website to load within a few seconds. As Google wants to make searching faster, easier, and more useful for users, it will favor websites that load quickly. When your site grows in popularity, optimizing the loading time becomes even more crucial, and shaving off a few milliseconds now can have a big impact later on.

Golems GABB: Google Maps in Drupal

Google Maps in Drupal Editor Fri, 04/07/2023 - 13:27

Drupal Google maps can be easily integrated into your website and help visitors find your physical address. This is an essential advantage in a competitive business environment because potential buyers will have to do one less action. This means the chance of a successful sale and visit to the store increases. We will tell you how to put google maps on the site and how custom drupal website development could help your business.

5 best modules to implement Drupal Google Maps

The first thing to do is to study the assortment of valuable and simple Google maps Drupal modules presented. Each of these will help make the final result on the site more attractive and functional. We recommend learning in detail about the available options, and at the end, we can collect together a small database that will help your users.

Drupal Association blog: Drupal Association to hire Fran Garcia-Linares

I am pleased to announce that the Drupal Association has hired Fran Garcia-Linares, as of 1 April 2023! We are thrilled to bring Fran’s talent to the team.

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Fran had been doing contract work with the Drupal Association since October 2021 as part of the GitLab acceleration initiative. He currently lives in El Puerto de Santa Maria, Cádiz, Spain.

Fran’s hiring is part of the Drupal Association’s effort to become more global in our hiring. We now have a relationship with a professional employer organization that allows us to hire in over 130 countries, making the possibilities of hiring international talent endless!

Fran has worked on a myriad of important projects including:

  • The GitLab issue migration. This project will allow the community to handle the issue queues in GitLab instead of the current system. The team is working on migrating all current and past issues to this new system.
  • The redesign of the Contribution Records system. Built in Drupal 10, the redesign will replace the existing Drupal 7 system. This new system accepts contributions from drupal.org and GitLab, once GitLab issues are enabled.
  • The jsonapi endpoint for Project Browser, which will allow Project Browser to list all existing Drupal projects and allow querying by multiple filters. This is also built with Drupal 10.
  • The relaunch of api.drupal.org with Drupal 10. This relaunch is a full rewrite of the existing Drupal 7 site.
  • The final stages of Project Messaging, a core module that will allow sending notifications to all Drupal sites directly.

Fran’s background includes studying Computer Engineering and working as a teacher during the first few years of his career. He then switched to web programming, working with several PHP frameworks, before beginning to work with Drupal 6/7 around 2012. Fran was excited about how much he could achieve with Drupal and never looked back!

Over the years, Fran has enjoyed maintaining Drupal sites and backend programming. In his free time, Fran enjoys being active and outdoorsy, usually by going for bicycle rides and family hikes. A fun fact about Fran is that he knows how to juggle with basketballs, although it’s been a while since he’s tried the feat!

Ever since I joined the Drupal Association, I’ve been heavily involved in community projects, and I enjoy that part the most, knowing that the work I do has an impact on the whole community.” - Fran Garcia-Linares

I look forward to having him on staff and witnessing all he will accomplish! I also look forward to more global hires in the Drupal Association’s future.

Tim Doyle
Chief Executive Officer, Drupal Association

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