After 5 years as Portland State’s Director for Web Communications, I’ve moved on to work for The rSmart Group, a commercial provider of open source technologies working mostly in the education sector with Sakai, OSP and Kuali. To extend my engagement at Portland State with open source communities like Sakai/OSP and Drupal, I’m looking forward … Read more
UC-Davis just published results from a well-designed survey on university web content management system usage. Over 60% of respondents were using a web CMS and homegrown/open source systems were more common than proprietary systems. Plone/Zope combined was the most common, followed closely by Homegrown, and then Drupal. Today, the Requirements and Evaluation committee of the … Read more
I just attended the first meeting of a parent/teacher/student group at my daughter’s public, science/math/technology magnet school—Winterhaven. The group was formed to deal with a mandate from Portland Public Schools to grow the school’s student body, and then necessarily move, or renovate, because the school’s current building can only serve about 360 students. Now that … Read more