John Bickar is a Senior Web Developer and DevOps Lead for Stanford Web Services. He is one of the primary developers working on the Stanford Sites hosting platform. His interests (besides Drupal) include web accessibility, Behat, automation, and unordered lists.
We are currently in the testing phase of adding the following modules to the list of modules available for all users on Stanford Sites.
Nicole Ardoin, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Woods Institute for the Environment, hosts her personal website on Stanford Sites.
Mike Widner, Academic Technology Specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, hosts his personal blog on Stanford Sites. He has integrated a wide variety of interesting technologies, including the d3.js library, a Twitter feed, and an RSS feed from zotero.org.
Nice job, Mike!
As a centrally-supported service, Stanford Sites is designed to have a robust yet limited set of modules available to site owners. This ensures the service can be tested and upgraded as needed. Though Stanford Sites does not accommodate the direct installation of modules by site owners, we welcome suggestions for module additions or changes; our goal is to ensure the service grows and adapts to the needs of our campus community.
When requests for new modules come in, either internal or external, we use the following criteria to evaluate those requests:
In November, 2012, SWS released a stable beta version of the Stanford Events Importer for Drupal 7. The Stanford Events Importer integrates with the XML feeds from events.stanford.edu and allows you to "automagically" import events into your Drupal site.
In December, 2011, we released the Stanford Courses module for Drupal 6. This is a Features-based module that polls the XML feed at ExploreCourses and creates Course and Course Section nodes on a Drupal website.
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