Talking Drupal #488 - Drupal Open University

Today we are talking about The open university initiative, Drupal in academia, and Fostering Drupal Education with guest Jean-Paul Vosmeer. We’ll also cover Artisan as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/488

Topics

• What is the Drupal Open University Initiative
• How did this initiative start
• Why is it important to get Drupal into Universities and Classrooms
• What stage is the initiative at
• Is Drupal currently in any universities
• Is it better to approach schools or professors directly
• How is the curriculum being developed
• What are the main differences between this initiative and resources like Drupalize.me, Drupal at your fingertips, or Drupal TB
• What is next on the roadmap
• Where does Drupal CMS fit in
• Where does the initiative need help
• How can someone get involved

Resources

• Drupal Open University Initiative
• Metadrop blog about Artisan
• Drupal viking
• Do it with Drupal
• Drupal at your fingertips
• Drupal Open University
• OSPO
  • https://todogroup.org/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Program_Office
• Content Model & Site Documentation

Guests

Jean-Paul Vosmeer - reactonline.nl jpvos

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to use the Drupal UI to configure numerous aspects of your Drupal site’s look and feel? There’s a theme for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Artisan
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Sep 2024 by alejandro cabarcos though recent releases are by crzdev, both of metadrop
  • Versions available: 1.3.8, which support Drupal 10 and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, release in the last week
  • Security coverage
  • Documentation: no, but a lengthy README that includes developer notes
  • Number of open issues: 7 open issues, 5 of which are bugs, but 3 are postponed
• Usage stats:
  • 170 sites
• Module features and usage
  • After installing the theme, there is a drush command to generate a subtheme, or you can manually duplicate an included starterkit. You also need to run a couple of npm commands to pull in all the front end libraries, and build the CSS files
  • Once you set the subtheme as your site default, you can customize a variety of ways the site looks, including the fonts and weights to use for heading and default text, the colour and padding of various elements, border weights, border radius, and more.
  • The customizations are grouped into tabs. The base tab includes a colour palette, base font, and link styling. Additional tabs include page layout, header, responsive, and footer, also breadcrumb, headings, display headings, buttons, forms, and components
  • Artisan also provides a toggle to expose extra customization options for dark mode, so if you want your site to give users the option to switch back and forth between normal and dark, this is extremely powerful, but does make for some very long configuration pages
  • You can create and save presets, for easy creation of reusable palettes
  • There is also a companion Artisan Styleguide module that provides a page that previews the theme style applied to an extensive list of elements
  • Last year I was considering making a more configurable subtheme of Olivero for the Event Platform initiative, so I was excited to read about Artisan in a metadrop blog post we’ll include in the show notes