Introduction to Drupal Created for the Higher Education Web Symposium @ UPenn on 07/16/08 Presented by Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg & Jody Hamilton ZivTech – http://zivtech.com

Created for the Higher Education Web Symposium

@ UPenn on 07/16/08

Presented by

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg

&

Jody Hamilton

ZivTech – http://zivtech.com

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Yale University

UC Berkeley

Stanford University

Washington University St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University St. Louis

Ohio State University

Ohio State University

Bradley University

Bradley University

Brigham Young University

Georgia Tech University

Michigan State University

Michigan State University

Oregon State University

Queen’s University

Oregon State University

Oregon State University

Portland State University

Portland State University

San Jose University

Hamline University

Indiana University

University of Prince Edward Island

University of British Columbia

Cal Institute of the Arts

Ohio Northern University

Rice University

What is Drupal? Open Source Content Management System and Framework Created and maintained by thousands of Developers, many of them working for Drupal shops, orgs, or companies. Internet enabled community

Open Source Content Management System and Framework

Created and maintained by thousands of Developers, many of them working for Drupal shops, orgs, or companies.

Internet enabled community

Drupal's Community Drupal.Org Projects (Modules and Themes) Issue Queue Forums Drupal Planet Feeds from Drupal Developers and Shops Drupal Services

Drupal.Org

Projects (Modules and Themes)

Issue Queue

Forums

Drupal Planet

Feeds from Drupal Developers and Shops

Drupal Services

Drupal's Community Groups.Drupal.org http:// groups.drupal.org/drupal -education http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-for-good http://groups.drupal.org/curriculum Drupal Dojo http:// groups.drupal.org/drupal -dojo http://drupaldojo.com/

Groups.Drupal.org

http:// groups.drupal.org/drupal -education

http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-for-good

http://groups.drupal.org/curriculum

Drupal Dojo

http:// groups.drupal.org/drupal -dojo

http://drupaldojo.com/

Drupal's Community IRC Channels on Freenode #drupal #drupal-support #drupal-dev #drupal-themes #drupal-consultants #drupal-dojo

IRC Channels on Freenode

#drupal

#drupal-support

#drupal-dev

#drupal-themes

#drupal-consultants

#drupal-dojo

Drupal's Community Mailing Lists Developers Security Newsletter In Person Meetups DrupalCamps (like BarCamps) DrupalCon (bi-annual)

Mailing Lists

Developers

Security

Newsletter

In Person

Meetups

DrupalCamps (like BarCamps)

DrupalCon (bi-annual)

Who uses Drupal? Universities Yale, Harvard, Penn State, Rice, MIT, Stanford, and many more. Organizations unicef, The United Nations, PBS, Belgian Government, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, NASA, NATO, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Universities

Yale, Harvard, Penn State, Rice, MIT, Stanford, and many more.

Organizations

unicef, The United Nations, PBS, Belgian Government, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, NASA, NATO, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Who uses Drupal? Companies Reuters, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, Sony BMG, Adobe, IBM, Universal Music Group, The BBC, The Onion, FedEx, Nike, MTV, Forbes, AOL, Fast Company. You?

Companies

Reuters, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, Sony BMG, Adobe, IBM, Universal Music Group, The BBC, The Onion, FedEx, Nike, MTV, Forbes, AOL, Fast Company.

You?

Why use Drupal? cheaper - other systems cost tens- to hundreds-of-thousands of dollars just for a site license flexibility extensibility strong community support - many come from the online organizing and non-profit world

cheaper - other systems cost tens- to hundreds-of-thousands of dollars just for a site license

flexibility

extensibility

strong community support - many come from the online organizing and non-profit world

Why use Drupal? Corporate/enterprise level support Acquia (The “Red Hat” of Drupal) Modules built and supported by large companies such as Adobe and Sony Development cycle - new full release every 12-18 months, each release has seen the “core” improve greatly, Drupal 7 promises to be the "killer" release Many support options & no developer/company "lock in" You can always find a new developer if yours isn't working out, many support options, Aquia.

Corporate/enterprise level support

Acquia (The “Red Hat” of Drupal)

Modules built and supported by large companies such as Adobe and Sony

Development cycle - new full release every 12-18 months, each release has seen the “core” improve greatly,

Drupal 7 promises to be the "killer" release

Many support options & no developer/company "lock in"

You can always find a new developer if yours isn't working out, many support options, Aquia.