The document compares two Drupal distributions, OpenScholar and OpenAcademy, that could be used to standardize faculty websites at SF State. OpenScholar is designed specifically for academic communities and includes features like smart publishing, content aggregation, and social collaboration. OpenAcademy is powered by Panopoly and offers a responsive framework, customizable drag-and-drop page building, and professional support. It lists the key differences between the two distributions in terms of version, themes, multisites, developers, features, purpose, users, and available content types. Performance tests show OpenScholar has better page execution times and memory usage than OpenAcademy.

2. Drupal Distribution
Comparison for Faculty site
Presented by:
Emanuel Quinto
Srikanth Danapal
Supakit Kiatrungrit (Nat)
HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT

3. Drupal Distribution for
Faculty sitesAt SF State we have around 3500 faculties
Around 300 faculties running their own sites
without standardize and accessible templates
We are evaluating solution for Faculty site by either
use OpenScholar or OpenAcademy.

4. A full-featured open-
source web site-
creation package
designed for the
academic
community.
• Smart Publishing
• Pluggable Features
• Content Aggregation
• Sleek Themes, Elegant
Look and Feel
• Social Collaboration
• Analytics
Bringing the best in web
publishing for higher
education on a
customizable, open-source
platform.
• Responsive Framework
• Customizable
• Powered by Panopoly
• Drag & Drop Page
Building
• Built on Drupal 7
• Professional Support

5. Comparison
Open Scholar Open Academy
Drupal Version 7.x 7.x
Theme OpenScholar (custom) Bartik, Omega…
Multisites Organic Group Domain Access
Developers Harvard Chapter Three / Pantheon
Powered by Features (os_features) Apps (Panopoly)
Primary Purpose Scholar Departments
Who's Using UC Berkeley UC Berkeley
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Wisconsin
Many More...

6. Content Types / Features
Open Scholar Open Academy
Basic Pages Basic Pages
Profiles Person
Publications Publications
Event Event
Announcements News
Blog Blog
Booklets Biblio
Dataverse Course
Software
Image Gallery
Presentations
Reader
Links

7. Performance
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Page execution (sec.)
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Memory peak (Mb)
Based on 1,500 sites generate from each distribution. The shorter is the better performance.