Nick Vidal » ufrgsweb http://nick.iss.im (( nick . iss . im )) Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:49:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Knight Drupal Initiative http://nick.iss.im/2008/08/08/knight-drupal-initiative/ http://nick.iss.im/2008/08/08/knight-drupal-initiative/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:46:26 +0000 nick http://nick.iss.im/2008/08/08/knight-drupal-initiative/ The Knight Drupal Initiative is a partnership between the Knight Foundation and the Drupal Community to provide funding for grant proposals that explore digital publishing to transform their respective communities.

I’m glad to announce that my proposal has been approved to the next phase of the selection process. This proposal’s main goal is to build ISS support in the Drupal platform. Our specific goal is to create a social network for our university to help students and professors discover and share information with colleagues and society.

]]> http://nick.iss.im/2008/08/08/knight-drupal-initiative/feed/ 0 UFRGS’ Social Network http://nick.iss.im/2007/11/16/ufrgs-social-network/ http://nick.iss.im/2007/11/16/ufrgs-social-network/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:52:37 +0000 nick http://nick.iss.im/2007/11/16/ufrgs-social-network/ We are currently building UFRGSWeb, UFRGS‘ rich-media social network, to be launched next year. UFRGS is one of the largest universities in Brazil, with over 40.000 people. Being so large, it’s difficult to be aware of all the interesting research being developed at the university. Our goal is to provide students and professors with tools that will help them discover and share information with colleagues and society. To achieve this goal, we are creating a symbioses of Orkut and YouTube from an academic perspective. We are adopting the ISS open standard so that information may be discovered, syndicated and aggregated easily. The system is being built on top of Drupal, an excellent open source content management system. I’m very happy to be part of this project and to being able to contribute back to my university and to society. I think this is a very important project that will help improve the quality of education and research at UFRGS with phenomenal cascading effects.

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