I'm pleased to announce the second release of Eduglu! Eduglu is a Drupal distribution designed to support social learning at institutions of higher learning. It's available for download now at http://eduglu.com/download-eduglu. Since the first release, We've squashed dozens of major and minor bugs and made the significant jump to the Spaces 3 and Context 3.
I've been working on a social learning site based on Drupal for the past two years as a student at Brigham Young University and am now working towards readying it for its maiden release into the world as a full-fledged Drupal install profile.
My goal with Eduglu is to:
a) Provide a superb out-of-the-box social learning engine to help departments, clubs, classrooms, and other campus groups communicate, collaborate, and learn with one another.
Lately I've been helping out a web development team at BYU develop a new calendaring system in Drupal to replace our existing all-in-one calendar. It's an ambitious project that's leveraging quite a few different modules from the Drupalsphere.
Some of the features include:
This is the second in a series of articles I'm writing to help me prep for my session next week at Drupalcon. The first article was my attempt to define social objects. This article outlines how to use social object theory to design better social networking sites.
[In preparation for my upcoming session at Drupalcon, I'll be writing a short series of articles on social networking and learning theory. First up is an article on social objects.]
“The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else.” -- Hugh Macleod
I just submitted my application to the Knight News Challenge. My application is for money to bring the Memetracker and Content Recommendation Engine modules to production ready status. Memetracker, is of course, the module I wrote this past summer as part of Google Summer of Code.
This summer I was accepted to Google Summer of Code to build a memetracker application for Drupal.
I want the Memetracker module to facilitate online conversations amongst distributed communities. For my dream to become reality, Memetracker will need help from many talented developers. This summer I'll be setting a solid foundation for future development of the memetracker module. One important thing I'll be doing is writing unit tests for all the functions of the memetracker. Unit tests, I'm convinced, is one thing Memetracker needs in order to ensure its long term success.
I recently made my first alpha release of the Drupal Memetracker module. You can download it from the project page on the Drupal community site.
An screenshot from the latest code:
