D r u p a l C o m m o n s i n P r a c t i c e - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

▶
d r u p a l c o m m o n s i n p r a c t i c e s o c i a l
SMART_READER_LITE
LIVE PREVIEW

D r u p a l C o m m o n s i n P r a c t i c e - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Jan 12, 2023 420 likes •582 views

Masaryk University Faculty of Informatics D r u p a l C o m m o n s i n P r a c t i c e : S o c i a l B u s i n e s s a n d S o c i a l N e t w o r k Master's Thesis Bc. Matej Sabo

slide-1
SLIDE 1

D r u p a l C

  • m

m

  • n

s i n P r a c t i c e : S

  • c

i a l B u s i n e s s a n d S

  • c

i a l N e t w

  • r

k

Master's Thesis • Bc. Matej Sabo • Brno 2015 Masaryk University • Faculty of Informatics

slide-2
SLIDE 2

Fr

  • m

t he

  • pen

s

  • ur

c e c

  • m m uni

t y t

  • t

he ent er pr i s e, and bac k t

  • a

l i v i ng c

  • m m uni

t y.

slide-3
SLIDE 3

Can the Drupal Commons enterprise social business SW be beneficial for communities around non-profit and social business companies?

The Question

slide-4
SLIDE 4

The Investigation

  • Research and comparison
  • f the solutions for social

business networking

– Jive – SharePoint/Yammer – WordPress: Buddypresss – Joomla: JomSocial, and

Community Builder

slide-5
SLIDE 5

Characteristics of DC

  • Zero cost of free and open

source

  • Development through

configuration

  • Support of the huge

developer community

  • Exceptional extensibility,

flexibility, customization

  • Steeper learning curve
slide-6
SLIDE 6

The Real-World Assignment

  • T

wo community centers around self- development, educational and experience events

  • Social network and

social business site to support their wider communities

  • Theory of Constraints

– Minimum resources – Flexible requirements

  • Get the maximum of DC

– DC features – Drupal contributed modules – Developer community

slide-7
SLIDE 7

Practical Work

  • Strategy
  • Requirements

analysis

  • Study of modules

and features of DC and Drupal

  • Refinement of

requirements for MVP

  • Design of content

types and customization of UI

  • Implementation:

configuration and customization of modules

  • Slovak translation of

DC

slide-8
SLIDE 8

The Key Features

  • Overview of the community

centers, leaders and events

  • Community platform

– Activity streams, friending,

messaging, groups, blogs, email notifications

  • Event management
slide-9
SLIDE 9
slide-10
SLIDE 10

Contribution of the Thesis

  • Thoughts and discussion on the concept of Social

Business from an interdisciplinary perspective

  • Investigation of the possible benefits of using DC in

the area of community social business

  • The comparison with other solutions
  • Implementation of a community website with the

prospect of providing services to a number communities and community centers

  • A plan for future development of the site, its user-

base, social business and promotion activities

slide-11
SLIDE 11

The Answer

Although DC can greatly shorten the development of a social business site, a start-up of an Internet social business is, nevertheless, a very complex task not feasible for a small non-profit company, unless it devotes all its means towards this direction.

slide-12
SLIDE 12

Thank You

slide-13
SLIDE 13

Questions?

slide-14
SLIDE 14

Why is the website WBS missing?

  • The thesis task list (p. 9) to an extend
  • verlaps with the project WBS
slide-15
SLIDE 15

Why aren't the products compared to each other?

  • Focus was on DC, an extensive cross

comparison was out of scope

  • T
  • some extent it was done in the form of

comparison tables, but without round- robin evaluation (p. 18)

  • Reader is referred to further resources (p.

19)

Acknowledgement: Source of the background graphic: Drupal Commons theme. The logos and icons are from the corresponding company websites. The illustration on the slide “Key Features” is my own work. The website screen-shots were taken by myself.