Talking Drupal #488 - Drupal Open University

Today we are talking about The open university initiative, Drupal
in academia, and Fostering Drupal Education with guest Jean-Paul
Vosmeer. We’ll also cover Artisan as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/488
Topics

What is the Drupal Open University Initiative

How did this initiative start

Why is it important to get Drupal into Universities and
Classrooms

What stage is the initiative at

Is Drupal currently in any universities

Is it better to approach schools or professors directly

How is the curriculum being developed

What are the main differences between this initiative and
resources like Drupalize.me, Drupal at your fingertips, or Drupal
TB

What is next on the roadmap

Where does Drupal CMS fit in

Where does the initiative need help

How can someone get involved

Resources

Drupal Open University Initiative

Metadrop blog about Artisan

Drupal viking

Do it with Drupal

Drupal at your fingertips

Drupal Open University

OSPO

https://todogroup.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Program_Office



Content Model & Site Documentation

Guests

Jean-Paul Vosmeer - reactonline.nl jpvos
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to use the Drupal UI to configure
numerous aspects of your Drupal site’s look and feel? There’s
a theme for that.



Module name/project name:

Artisan



Brief history

How old: created in Sep 2024 by alejandro cabarcos though
recent releases are by crzdev, both of metadrop

Versions available: 1.3.8, which support Drupal 10 and 11



Maintainership

Actively maintained, release in the last week

Security coverage

Documentation: no, but a lengthy README that includes
developer notes

Number of open issues: 7 open issues, 5 of which are
bugs, but 3 are postponed



Usage stats:

170 sites



Module features and usage

After installing the theme, there is a drush command to
generate a subtheme, or you can manually duplicate an
included starterkit. You also need to run a couple of npm
commands to pull in all the front end libraries, and build
the CSS files

Once you set the subtheme as your site default, you can
customize a variety of ways the site looks, including the
fonts and weights to use for heading and default text, the
colour and padding of various elements, border weights,
border radius, and more.

The customizations are grouped into tabs. The base tab
includes a colour palette, base font, and link styling.
Additional tabs include page layout, header, responsive, and
footer, also breadcrumb, headings, display headings, buttons,
forms, and components

Artisan also provides a toggle to expose extra
customization options for dark mode, so if you want your site
to give users the option to switch back and forth between
normal and dark, this is extremely powerful, but does make
for some very long configuration pages

You can create and save presets, for easy creation of
reusable palettes

There is also a companion Artisan Styleguide module that
provides a page that previews the theme style applied to an
extensive list of elements

Last year I was considering making a more configurable
subtheme of Olivero for the Event Platform initiative, so I
was excited to read about Artisan in a metadrop blog post
we’ll include in the show notes