this is quite good (drupal on top of fedora) and shows the benefit of fedora as a service-based approach. This is how it is supposed to work. Unfortunately, while it sounds good in practice, a lot of the heavy lifting will dissuade many folks from taking this approach

The idea of PlanetOU was always to represent a community around an institution by aggregating blogs written by people connected to it (the idea is explained in full in my earlier post What planet are you from?

With hardly time to catch my breath I’m tossed straight back into a bunch of new projects whilst tying up a few loose ends on some old ones. So here’s what will be keeping me busy over the next few months at the Open University.

For the last few months I’ve been working on a new OU student / alumni community site called, well, I’m not sure what it’s actually called yet, but let’s just say it is a companion / successor to the print-based Sesame magazine.