Alex-<div><br></div><div>We've rolled out WP as our whole-campus solution for blogs. You can contact me directly with any questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Patrick Laverty</div><div>
Brown University</div><div>(<a href="mailto:Patrick@brown.edu">Patrick@brown.edu</a>)</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Alexandre Enkerli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:enkerli@gmail.com">enkerli@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<br>
<br>
Been using WP in diverse contexts, including some of my activities as<br>
an instructor.<br>
After talking with diverse people needing advice about Web solutions<br>
for all sorts of things, I came to the realization that it'd be<br>
incredibly useful to have a university-supported install of WordPress<br>
(Multi-Site and hopefully BuddyPress-enabled).<br>
<br>
It's a big institution, so it can be difficult to request such things.<br>
Actually, the communications department is in the RFP phase of<br>
implementing a new (commercial) CMS, so energies are spent elsewhere.<br>
<br>
We use Moodle as the main course management system for most of the<br>
community, though the business school uses FirstClass for the same<br>
purposes. Many faculty members are dissatisfied with their course<br>
management system and, clearly, there's a need for something which<br>
goes beyond individual courses. This is a university with a strong<br>
involvement in the local community and there are many projects by<br>
students, staff, and faculty which could use an online space as a kind<br>
of “university commons”.<br>
What's more, it'd be interesting to have some people do innovative<br>
work through WordPress. A dream I have is to use WP as a repository<br>
for “learning objects”. Such projects can be done independently, but<br>
they're more interesting if they're hosted on university servers.<br>
Way back when, universities had “personal homepages”, for all<br>
affiliated individuals. Why can't we have WP sites and BuddyPress<br>
profiles?<br>
<br>
Does anyone have advice on getting an academic institution to accept<br>
WP on their servers? I'll try to prepare a dossier, pointing to work<br>
done at diverse institutions (good thing Boone paved the way), and<br>
describing practical cases from faculty initiatives. It even sounds<br>
like the fear of having sensitive data held off-site could be a<br>
factor. But any insight as to how such a process went at other<br>
institutions would be very useful.<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Alex Enkerli<br>
<a href="http://Enkerli.com" target="_blank">http://Enkerli.com</a><br>
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