Slide taken from state of Drupal presentation – Dries Buytaert http://buytaert.net/state-of-drupal-presentation-march-2009
Slide taken from state of Drupal presentation – Dries Buytaert http://buytaert.net/state-of-drupal-presentation-march-2009
A few figures about Drupal
1.5M unique visitors at drupal.org
200.000+ Core Downloads/month
A few 100.000 active Websites
A few 1.000 of developers
4.000+ contributed modules
42 languages
100% yearly growth
FREE
Again - What's Drupal?
A Content Management System
A Content Management Framework (PHP)
A Community (even in Switzerland :-) 200+)
Open Source Software
Web based
Build by everyone, controlled by no one, … and it magically works Drupal is like the internet Slide taken from state of Drupal presentation – Dries Buytaert http://buytaert.net/state-of-drupal-presentation-march-2009
Drupal & Media - Newspapers
http://www.observer.com/ (New York Observer)
http://www.24heures.ch/ +8 other Newspaper Websites (Edipresse)
http://kommentare.zeit.de/ (Zeit)
http://debatte.welt.de/ (Springer)
http://playboy.de (Burda)
Drupal & Media - TV
http://www.mtv.co.uk/ (Paramount/Viacom)
http://www.france24.com/ (AEF)
http://ketnet.be/ -> Children Channel
Drupal & Media - Radio
http://www.virginradio999.com/(Astral Media Radio Interactive group)
http://www.drs.ch/ (SRG SSR idée suisse)
Drupal & Media - Music
http://myplay.com/ (Sony BMG) + a few 100 Artists (f.e. Britney Spears, Ozzy Osborne, Bob Dylan, etc)
http://community.michaeljackson.com/ (Sony)
More examples
http://groups.drupal.org/node/5100
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites
What says Google?
Compared to Typo3 - World Just an example, play around with the CMS of your choice http://www.google.com/trends
Compared to Typo3 - Germany It seems that the look for Drupal since 4 years
Compared to Typo3 - Switzerland It seems that the look for Drupal since 2 years
Another Choice Matrix :-) http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/How-to-Choose-Between-Joomla-Drupal-and-Wordpress.html Read the 42 comments !
5.000 $ for trying something new? :-)
it's not about spending money in that industry
It's about earning money with
the semantic, location-aware and moment-relevant Internet on every device (call it Web 3.0 if you want).
Multichannel eCommerce
Crowdsourcing business models
Journalism
Data Mining
The fact, that Techies and Non-Techies will come closer
Slide taken from state of Drupal presentation – Dries Buytaert http://buytaert.net/state-of-drupal-presentation-march-2009 Remember?
Drupal is often a solution!
More productive!
Easy to setup
Flexible
Great Community
Open Source / Free as a free beer :-)
Professional support via acquia and their partners http://acquia.com/partners
How to be successful with Drupal
Work agile together in small teams, test & evaluate
Visit DrupalCamps (next in Copenhagen 22.-24. May) and UserGroup meetings
Involve your clients (coding in the meeting room)
Blog about your work / share your knowledge
Be honest (not „You name it, we do it!“)
Contribute (at least a part of your work)
Become a member of the Drupal association
Thank you & Have fun in Aarau
Contact & Informations Hagen Graf: [email_address] http://twitter.com/hagengraf Drupal 6 book on-line in German language (free of charge!): http://drupal.cocoate.com/de
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