Just noticed a Drupal for Education event going on at Sun’s offices in London, on 14th May:
http://www.drupal.org.uk/event/drupal-education-may-2009/14-may-2009
The event is organised by Codepositive, Sun, and Acquia, and seems to be part of a series of ‘Drupal for…’ events. The last one I went to was Drupal for Enterprise, and was pretty useful – especially for those who didn’t know anything about Drupal and wanted to get a good overview.
Interestingly, they mention on the event page that the Open University is now using Drupal for its new Platform site:
http://www.open.ac.uk/platform/
This bills itself as a ‘virtual campus’ social networking and news site for staff, students, and alumni. They even have blogs, although they’ve seemingly gone for Drupal-based blogs rather than the WordPress MU we’ve chosen for blogs.kent.
Hi Matthew, yes this is part of an ongoing series of London Drupal events focusing on specific sectors. Drupal seems to be very widely used by academia in the U.S. but not so much in the U.K., we’re hoping to spread more awareness of Drupal and what it can do.
Hope you can make it.