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Drupal FTW!
!
Keynote: DrupalCamp St. Louis 2014

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hi. Brad Nowak
Business Development Manager

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Brad Nowak
Business Development Manager

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Thank You(s)!

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•What is Drupal?
•Why do people choose Drupal?
•How can I be successful using Drupal?
What is this session about?

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•Dru-what?
•I’m starting to work with Drupal
•I’d like to convince my client or company to
use Drupal
•I need a place to sit and have coffee
Is this session for me?

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?

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You?

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What is Drupal?

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In the year 2000
http://buytaert.net/album/miscellaneous-2000/student-room

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http://buytaert.net/album/press-photos/inc-500-2012

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• Born of developers and “hackers”
• Released into the wild and grew into an open-source community
• Continued to be a developer-driven project for a number of years
• Recent years have seen a greater inclusiveness in the community;
Bring me your FEDs, your designers, your project managers,
business owners, and content owners..
An evolving project

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But What is It?

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www.flickr.com/photos/sailorwind/170499556/

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• To-date this is the primary use-case
• We use it to develop sites
• It is the public-facing front end that visitors use
• And of course, it is the back-end (content management) system
• Distributions may be the most straightforward examples of Drupal
as a pre-packaged CMS
A Content Management System

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/streetfly_jz/2770303823/

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www.flickr.com/photos/kurafire/2484025115/

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http://www.geocities.jp/jun_brick/yamato_m.html

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“A tool for building
your own dream CMS”
!
Larry Garfield

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• Is this where Drupal is headed with version 8, or where it’s already
at in version 7? Many would argue the latter.
• BYO CMS using core and contributed modules and a sprinkle of
custom code where you need it
• A content management hub - integrated with various systems
pushing content to some systems and ingesting it from others
!
A Content Management Framework

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13 years!

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Drupal 8

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Why do people
choose Drupal?

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It’s Free

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It’s Free

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It’s Flexible
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/4744894272

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It’s Powerful
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/5035459038/

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• Easily handle small to medium sized sites with CMS needs
• Build large sites
• Future-proof if you know (or think) your needs are going to grow in
the future
• Create multi-site installations
• Support enterprise-level platforms
!
So you can..

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• Course management systems (colleges & universities)
• Collections management systems (museums)
• Digital Asset Management systems
• CDN
• CRM
• HR systems
• Social networks
And Play Nice with Others

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Drupal 8

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• Symfony2/PHP
• HTML 5
• Responsive
• Web Services and Content Context Initiative (WISCCI)
• Configuration management
• Twig templating engine
!
More Flexibility and Power

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Oh and..

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The Community

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• Apr 26 2014 Western NY State Drupal MINI-CAMP (US)
• Apr 26 2014 DrupalCamp St. Louis (US)
• May 16 - May 18 2014 DrupalCamp Spain 2014 (Spain)
• May 16 - May 18 2014 Drupal Camp Wrocław (Poland)
• May 17 - May 18 2014 Drupal Camp Alpe-Adria (Slovenia)
• May 31 - Jun 012014 DrupalCamp Yorkshire Leeds (UK)
• Jun 02 - Jun 06 2014 DrupalCon Austin 2014 (US)
We’re not Alone
http://buildamodule.com/drupal-camps-calendar

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• Jun 14 2014 DrupalCamp Singapore 2014 (Singapore)
• Jul 03 - Jul 06 2014 DropCamp ’14 (Netherlands)
• Jul 17 - Jul 20 2014 DrupalCorn Camp 2014 (US)
• Jul 25 - Jul 27 2014 DrupalCamp North East (UK)
• Jul 26 - Jul 27 2014 Drupalcamp Wisconsin (US)
• Aug 02 - Aug 032014 Drupal Camp Pennsylvania (US)
• Aug 07 - Aug 10 2014 DrupalCamp Twin Cities 2014 (US)
We’re not Alone
http://buildamodule.com/drupal-camps-calendar

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• Sep 06 - Sep 07 2014 DrupalCamp LA 2014 (US)
• Sep 29 - Oct 03 2014 DrupalCon Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Nov 14 - Nov 15 2014 DrupalDay Italy (Italy)
• Nov 15 - Nov 16 2014 DrupalCamp Gothenburg (Germany)
!
!
!
We’re not Alone
http://buildamodule.com/drupal-camps-calendar

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Succeeding with
Drupal

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/loozrboy/3064187103/in/photostream/

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• DrupalCons
• DrupalCamps
• Meet Up Groups
• Drupal.org
• Blogs
• Social Media
• More..
Community Resources

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• Developers
• Themers
• Designers
• Content Strategists
• Project Managers
!
!
Multiple Communities
• Business Owners
• Product Owners
• Site Administrators
• Content Contributors
• Editors and Publishers
!
!

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• Trust
• Empathy and Understanding
• Transparency & Communication
• Partnership and Collaboration
• Accountability
• Remember it’s the code that’s free
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Client Relationships

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Strategy and Planning

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• Understanding the organization/client
• What does success look like?
• What are the priorities of the project?
• Budget and timeline considerations
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!
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Strategy and Planning

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Good Design

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• It doesn’t matter what CMS you use if the user experience sucks
• User centered design
• Responsive design
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!
!
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Good Design

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Best Practices

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• Think sustainability
• Leverage core and contrib first
• Well written and commented code
• Make it a module (or a patch) and give back
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Best Practices-Driven Development

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Drupal FTW!

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Brad Nowak
nowak@palantir.net
@bnoax
Thank you!
Questions?
@palantir