1. NASA Science on
Drupal Central
Building Community and Collaboration for NASA Earth
Science Drupal developers and website admins

2. NSODC Access Project
• New Media Research Institute
• Drupal Community of Purpose
• Drupal/IDL bridge code development
• University of Alabama, Huntsville
• Drupal module/feature development

3. Enabling Community
• Learning and Sharing Knowledge
• Sharing Code
• Building Knowledge Base for Newbs
• Having more fun

4. Sharing Knowledge
• Places to share
• ESIP/ESDSWG meetings/telecons
• Drupal Camps/Cons/Labs
• Drupal.org, Commons.ESIPfed
• Reasons to share
• Getting Credit for sharing

5. Places for Sharing

6. Reasons for Sharing
• Supporting common interests
• Showing skills
• Gaining Cred (build facility for this)
• Career boost (the future looks Drupal)
• Higher purpose: save the planet

7. Code Sharing
• Supporting code reuse is a NASA proirity
• Gain access to modules and features that
add value to your work
• Other people’s code
• Give back to open-source community

9. Flattening the Curve
• NASA on the front-end of Drupal work
• New Drupalistas need more resources
• Learning Center will aggregate resources
and meta-resources
• Experts to answer questions

10. so many
skills
required to
make your
Drupal effort
pay off...
NSODC can help!

11. Get Connected
• Bruce Caron: bruce@nmri.org
• Google+: +scienceondrupal
• Twitter: #scienceondrupal
• ESIP: Drupal Working Group
• groups.drupal.org/ESIP
• commons.ESIPfed.org