IAESTE & Drupal: How Drupal is used by a distributed organization

Vortragende(r):  Roland Ulbricht
Track:  Show Cases & Business
Erfahrungsgrad:  Anfänger, Erfahrene Benutzer, Sehr erfahrene Benutzer
Room:  Hörsaal 15
Start:  28.11.2009 - 09:00
Typ:  Session
Sprache:  Englisch

IAESTE is a student-run organization which runs an international internship-exchange program and also organizes career-fairs. IAESTE Austria consists of six local committees at different universities. Of course, each committee has it's own website. Also, each career fair has it's own website and there are also several other events that have their own websites. We will present how Drupal made our lifes easier.

What we will show:
- complexity of what we do and our structure
- What we learned so far

From Vancouver to Vladivostok, from rotting in-house spaghetti to Drupal: Migrating osce.org

Track:  Show Cases & Business
Erfahrungsgrad:  Erfahrene Benutzer, Sehr erfahrene Benutzer
Room:  Hörsaal 15
Start:  28.11.2009 - 10:00
Typ:  Session
Sprache:  Englisch

The OSCE is in the process of migrating its website from an in-house CMS to Drupal.

Strategies in Creating a Community Around a Drupal Web Site - Examples

Vortragende(r):  Zeljko Puljic
Track:  Show Cases & Business
Erfahrungsgrad:  Anfänger, Erfahrene Benutzer, Sehr erfahrene Benutzer
Room:  Hörsaal 15
Start:  28.11.2009 - 15:00
Typ:  Session
Sprache:  Englisch

We will talk about technological and organizational aspects of organizing and supporting a web community on the base of Drupal show cases: Forschungsstrategie.at and MegaCard.at.

Intranet, Collaboration and Projectmanagement with Drupal

Vortragende(r):  Christian Ziegler
Track:  Show Cases & Business
Erfahrungsgrad:  Anfänger, Erfahrene Benutzer, Sehr erfahrene Benutzer
Room:  Hörsaal 18
Start:  27.11.2009 - 15:00
Typ:  Session
Sprache:  Englisch

More and more companies are using Drupal as an intranet solution or for managing their projects. There has been an announcement just last week that the World Bank is doing its intranet now with Openatrium, a drupal based collaboration suite.

In this session I'd like to cover the following issues:

  • What's possible with Drupal?
  • What caveat have to be considered?
  • Suitable Drupal modules and prepackaged solutions
  • Examples and usecases