Last updated February 6, 2006.
Our workshop follows directly on the related topic "Drupal Enterprise-Wide", and a number of people will participate in both. We will take advantage of this to continue discussions begun in DEW.
As we're a large session, we'll do most of our work in small groups.
- Introduction and overview (5 minutes)
- Organizing into small groups by topic (10 minutes)
Suggested topics:
- Site network discovery and registration: how do networks of sites find out about each other and connect?
- Distributed authentication: how to users gain rights on multiple sites? how can a user logging into one site share data with another site?
- Pooled data: how can content and taxonomies be shared across sites?
- Small group working sessions by topic (45 minutes)
For each group we need:
- facilitator: facilitate discussion, ensure balanced participation
- summarizer: summarize relevant discussions from Drupal Enterprise-Wide
- recorder: take notes, ideally on laptop
- ensure you have everyone's contact information
- pay particular attention to who is taking on what piece
Small group discussion suggested format:
- quick introductions: name, hometown, groups/companies/projects worked for, and 1 sentence on a question or interest you bring to the discussion. Example: "I'm Nedjo Rogers, I'm from Victoria, Canada, I work with CivicSpace, and I'm interested in how we can extend the Drupal module to be used for connecting up different sites."
- Problem definition: agree on a basic description of the entended outcome of the solution component.
- Status overview: discuss existing options or new initiatives, with an emphasis on what they do but what else would be needed.
- Next steps: From the list of existing options or new initiatives identified, choose one or two for further development.
- Report back (15 minutes)
- Wrapup (5 min)
Report back from each small group, focusing on action items
Whole group discussion of conclusions and next directions