1. Drupal and the Future
of the Web
Drupal
John Albin Wilkins

2. Drupal 7
More building blocks
in the box!
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3. Predicting Trends
• Can be tricky
• Where are we now?
• Where do we want to be?
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4. Ecosphere of the Web
AUTHENTICATION
/ AUTHORIZATION
TOOLS
DATA
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5. Ecosphere of the Web
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TOOLS
• Media
• HTML5
DATA • Microblogging
• RDFa
• SPARQL
• PHP’s PDO AUTHENTICATION
• NoSQL / AUTHORIZATION
• OpenID
• OAuth

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Media Handling
• Stream wrappers — uses PHP 5’s streams for
unified operations on file and network resources
- PHP5
• File fields, image fields, image styles in core
• Media module
http://drupal.org/project/media

7. HTML 5
• Next Generation HTML Specification
HTML
• Canvas tag HTML 5
“Flash killer” “Flash ”
• Video tag HTML 5
“the other Flash killer” “ Flash ”
• HTML 5 will be handled
by Drupal 7 Contrib
HTML 5 Drupal 7
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8. HTML 5
http://www.canvasdemos.com/
2009/02/26/3d-on-2d-canvas/
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9. Microblogging
• Twitter
• Status.net
(open source)

10. Authentication
& Authorization
• OpenID
— AOL, Blogger, Myspace,
WordPress.com
• OAuth
— Twitter, Google
• Other methods: :
– LDAP
– Facebook Connect
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11. Database Storage
• MySQL • PostgreSQL
PHP 5’s PDO (PHP Data Objects) gives us:
PHP 5 PDO :
• Relational Databases • NoSQL Databases
NoSQL
• Oracle • MongoDB
• MS SQL • Cassandra
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12. Who owns your data?
• Google ? • Facebook ?
• Search queries • Facebook Connect
• Privacy scandal
• Single sign on Google
Account
• Quit Facebook Day
Facebook
Google
• Email with GMail
Gmail
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13. RDF makes the internet
one big database
RDF
SPARQL = Views on steroids

14. RDF Demo RDF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3UmNZzhk2A
Thanks to Lin Clark for building the demo
Stéphane Corlosquet for leading the RDF in Drupal 7 efforts

15. What does it mean?
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TOOLS
• Media
• HTML5
DATA • Microblogging
• RDFa
• SPARQL
• PHP’s PDO AUTHENTICATION
• NoSQL / AUTHORIZATION
• OpenID
• OAuth

16. What does it mean?
without YOU!
Nothing…
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17. How can you help?
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18. How can you help?
Think about it.
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19. How can you help?
• Translation: :
http://localize.drupal.org
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20. How can you help?
• Translation: :
http://localize.drupal.org
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21. How can you help?
• Translation: :
http://localize.drupal.org
• Documentation: :
Best time to write docs is when you are
learning.
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22. How can you help?
• Design:
• Pattern Library
• Themes
• Code:
The code I write is better because of collaboration.
Start small: fix small bugs
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23. What did we learn?
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24. What did we learn?
• You don’t want to see me in a UtiliKilt.
• Technology matters.
• Community matters more.
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