Core Publisher, built on Drupal 7 by NPR Digital Services

Happy Holidays, Core Publishers!

A few pre-holiday notes:

Our offices are closed on Monday, December 26, 2011 for the holiday. We will return bright and early on Tuesday, December 27th.

Also, there will be no Core Publisher training on Thursday, December 29, 2011. The team will return in the new year with a 2012 training schedule, which we will send out via email soon!

If you have any questions over the holiday, feel free to send an email to cphelp@ds.npr.org! You can also visit our Digital Services support page at http://info.ds.npr.org/support.html for more information.

Again, we wish you all a merry one!

–Annie, Steve, Rakiesha, Sara and Janeen

from The Core Publisher Team, NPR Digital Services

As many of you already know, there have been major issues with audio over the past few days. The technical teams in DC and Boston have found and addressed the root cause of the problem.

As part of iMA 2011, Jennifer Strachan of KPLU spoke a bit about their experience with Core Publisher. You can hear/watch here:
http://www.voicebase.com/my_account/voice_file_detail/14693

Skip to 16:29 for Jennifer’s segment

It’s not simply a new web platform…we’re revolutionizing the way we do online content.

This platform figures out how we as radio journalists can change the way we deliver content online so that people will actually read it, so it’s meaningful, relevant and dynamic.

Has a bloggy feel, but it’s really more than a news blog.

Core Publisher is aiming to drive audience by fundamentally changing the way we do content.

Session details:

Take Advantage of PBS & NPR! Tactics You Can Implement Now!
Panelists will describe their involvement in Project Argo, Project Merlin, NPR’s Core Publisher Pilot and PBS Incubation Lab in pursuit of increases in traffic and engagement via rich content on their web sites. Hear about lessons learned from real time local/national collaborations and get best practice advice from these pioneers. Panelists: Libby Peterek, KLRU; Mike Bauhof, Nine Networks of Public Media; Jennifer Strachan, KPLU; Tim Olson, KQED

From March 8th to March 11th, four members of our development team (Sr. Manager Dan Sundell, developers Dave Moore, Matt O’Toole and me, Kevin Moylan) attended Drupalcon Chicago, the number one Drupal Developers conference. We weren’t disappointed.

During the keynote address, Dries Buytaert (original creator of Drupal, President of the Drupal Association and CTO for Acquia) talked about the future directions that he would like to take Drupal 8. We later met with Dries and started a discussion about how the NPR Digital Services team could contribute to Drupal’s content publishing workflow design and configuration staging for Large Scale Drupal. Very, very cool.

Dave Moore participated in several Core Conversations for seasoned Drupal developers that are interested in driving the work being done for Drupal 8.