Drupal The poster child for web 2.0 community driven websites The CMPros Summit 26 November 2007 Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved. By: Travis Wissink @

Agenda Drupal History Community Creditability Web 2.0 Use cases for communities Drupal for communities Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Scripts Register Theme Blog entry based off of news feed Comments Votes Add Event Threaded forum Add profile element

Drupal

History

Community

Creditability

Web 2.0

Use cases for communities

Drupal for communities

Scripts

Register

Theme

Blog entry based off of news feed

Comments

Votes

Add Event

Threaded forum

Add profile element

Drupal A Content Management System (CMS) For everyday users, it comes with ready-to-use tools to publish and organize content Configurable into different website flavors, from personal blogs to large community sites A Content Management Framework (CMF) Free Open Source Software (GPL) Runs on PHP with an SQL backend Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

A Content Management System (CMS)

For everyday users, it comes with ready-to-use tools to publish and organize content

Configurable into different website flavors, from personal blogs to large community sites

A Content Management Framework (CMF)

Free Open Source Software (GPL)

Runs on PHP with an SQL backend

Access http://www.composibility.com/drupal Member1/password Barry/password Canada1/password Or create your own user. Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

http://www.composibility.com/drupal

Member1/password

Barry/password

Canada1/password

Or create your own user.

Drupal history Internal message board in a Belgium student dorm 1999 Message board made public as drop.org in 2000 Experiment with self-regulating online communities (moderation, rating, syndication, distributed authentication, ...) Drupal 1.0 released on January 15, 2001 Druplicon logo born. Current version Drupal 5.3 Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Internal message board in a Belgium student dorm 1999

Message board made public as drop.org in 2000

Experiment with self-regulating online communities (moderation, rating, syndication, distributed authentication, ...)

Drupal 1.0 released on January 15, 2001

Druplicon logo born.

Current version Drupal 5.3

The Community of Drupal Drupal.org 60,000 nodes 59,000 registered users Conferences Twice yearly global conferences Local conferences and events Forums IRC Mailing lists Local and SIGs (groups.drupal.org) Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Drupal.org

60,000 nodes

59,000 registered users

Conferences

Twice yearly global conferences

Local conferences and events

Forums

IRC

Mailing lists

Local and SIGs (groups.drupal.org)

Who uses Drupal Besides Drupal.org The Onion MTV uk > 61k websites Informally do a google url search for node/feed Sony BMG Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Besides Drupal.org

The Onion

MTV uk

> 61k websites

Informally do a google url search for node/feed

Sony BMG

Web 2.0 BS generator reinvent user-centered weblogs syndicate rss-capable life-hacks aggregate authentic folksonomies integrate embedded APIs capture viral weblogs http://www.emptybottle.org/bullshit/ Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

reinvent user-centered weblogs

syndicate rss-capable life-hacks

aggregate authentic folksonomies

integrate embedded APIs

capture viral weblogs

http://www.emptybottle.org/bullshit/

Web 2.0 Web as a Platform Widgets… Architecture of Participation Harness collective knowledge Websites become conversations Users add value Network Effects by Default Reed’s Law Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved. (O'Reilly, 2005)

Web as a Platform

Widgets…

Architecture of Participation

Harness collective knowledge

Websites become conversations

Users add value

Network Effects by Default

Reed’s Law

Community use cases in Web 2.0 Member to member communication Community discussion builders Community creditability Content Quality Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Member to member communication

Community discussion builders

Community creditability

Content Quality

Communities in Drupal’s Member to member communication Forums Messaging Events Community discussion builders News Aggregation Events Articles Polls Community creditability Syndication Member attribution Content Quality Quality points Content discussion (internal and external) Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Member to member communication

Forums

Messaging

Events

Community discussion builders

News Aggregation

Events

Articles

Polls

Community creditability

Syndication

Member attribution

Content Quality

Quality points

Content discussion (internal and external)

Modules Organic Groups CCK Views Events Node Vote User Points Freelinking Modr8 Sitemap Tinymce Admin Menu Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Organic Groups

CCK

Views

Events

Node Vote

User Points

Freelinking

Modr8

Sitemap

Tinymce

Admin Menu

When you succeed Infrastructure Scale 5 deployment configurations (Quinn, 2007) How to monetize Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Infrastructure Scale

5 deployment configurations (Quinn, 2007)

How to monetize

Summary Web 2.0 Platform Participation Network effects Drupal CCK, Views, Sitemap Organic Groups, Node Votes, User Points, Forum Scale Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Web 2.0

Platform

Participation

Network effects

Drupal

CCK, Views, Sitemap

Organic Groups, Node Votes, User Points, Forum

Scale

Works Cited Baheyeldin, K. (2006, May 12). DrupalCamp Toronto Presentation: Building Drupal Community Sites. Retrieved November 11, 2007, from http://2bits.com: http://2bits.com/news/drupalcamp-toronto-presentation-building-drupal-community-sites.html O'Reilly, T. (2005, September 30). What Is Web 2.0 . Retrieved Nov 11, 2007, from O'Reilly: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1 Quinn, J. (2007, October 28). scaling drupal - an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites . Retrieved November 11, 2007, from john & cailin: http://www.johnandcailin.com/blog/john/scaling-drupal-open-source-infrastructure-high-traffic-drupal-sites Westgate, M., & VanDyk, J. K. (2007). Pro Drupal Development. Berkeley, Ca: Apress. Copyright 2007 TL Consulting, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Baheyeldin, K. (2006, May 12). DrupalCamp Toronto

Presentation: Building Drupal Community Sites. Retrieved

November 11, 2007, from http://2bits.com: http://2bits.com/news/drupalcamp-toronto-presentation-building-drupal-community-sites.html

O'Reilly, T. (2005, September 30). What Is Web 2.0 . Retrieved Nov 11, 2007, from O'Reilly: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1

Quinn, J. (2007, October 28). scaling drupal - an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites . Retrieved November 11, 2007, from john & cailin: http://www.johnandcailin.com/blog/john/scaling-drupal-open-source-infrastructure-high-traffic-drupal-sites

Westgate, M., & VanDyk, J. K. (2007). Pro Drupal Development. Berkeley, Ca: Apress.

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