Drupal Workshop Intro

Achieving Objectives with Drupal Content Management Jeff Eaton - Lullabot Josh Ward - Volacci Emanuel London – Duo Consulting Ryan Szrama – Commerce Guys Doug Vann – Doug Vann Consulting Sonny Cohen – Duo Consulting

Open Source CMS
Community
Resources
Support
Modules
Themes
Deployments
Business Case for Drupal

Drupal Is:
Open Source
Community Supported
Commercially Supported
Content Management System

Drupal =”DROO-pull,"
Logo: Eyes of Infinity ~ In a Drop!
(Drupal is Dutch for Drop)
(Drupal founder, Dries, is Dutch)
Song: Ask Doug
Drupal Folklore DROP --->DRUPAL

Open Source
Source code in public domain
GPL – General Public License
Acquisition cost = $0

Community Supported
Thriving developer community
Aggressive adoption of CMS
Hundreds of applications

Commercial Involvement
Commercial Drupal Support
Platform Stability Support
Essential Modules
Search
Hosting
Drupal Gardens & Buzzr
Authorized Support Network

A Mercenary’s Perspective

~500,000 Drupal 5 & 6 sites *
> 1% of Top 1 million sites
= ~ 10,000 Websites
~ 98% of small, shared server sites
*(Wordpress = 8.5%, Joomla = 1.2%)
* Based on crawls performed by Acquia Religious Wars: The Volume Game

Interoperability
Functionality
Commercial Support
Growing Reputation
Technical Resources

Interoperability
Acquia Drupal Downloadable from Microsoft Website
New SQL server driver for PHP
Drupal 7 runs SQL server
Also support for other DB

Functionality
6700 Contribute Projects
“ There’s a module for that”

Commercial Support

Achieving Objectives with Drupal Content Management Jeff Eaton - Lollabot Josh Ward - Volacci Emanuel London - DuoConsulting Ryan Szrama – Commerce Guys Doug Vann – Doug Vann Consulting Sonny Cohen – Duo Consulting

Drupal Workshop Intro

by Duo Consulting on Jun 18, 2010

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