The document discusses Drupal distributions, which are pre-configured sets of functionalities designed for specific use-cases, supported by the Drupal community. It highlights various distributions like Drupal Commons, OpenPublish, Open Outreach, and Pressflow, detailing their features and target audiences. Additionally, it offers tips for customizing sites based on these distributions while considering upgrade paths and managing changes.

1. Drupal Distributions! Yeah for Drupal!

2. Easing Complexity Distributions P ackaged and pre-configured sets of functionality for specific use-cases Distributions are supported at every level of Drupal F irst-level citizens of the Drupal eco-system, fully supported and embraced by Drupal community

3. Who Uses Distros? Non-developers Developers As a lead gen tool

4. Distributions Drupal Commons Acquia COD (conference organizing distribution) GVS Open Publish Phase II Open Outreach Chocolate Lily Pressflow Four Kitchens Drupal Gardens Acquia Open Atrium Phase II Octopus Video Heshan

5. Drupal Commons http://commons.acquia.com/

6. Drupal Commons Features Blogs Documents Discussions Wikis Events Microblog / status updates Polls Alerts RSS Feeds (inbound) Video (3 options) Embed Brightcove / Kaltura ffmpeg http://commons.acquia.com/

7. Drupal Commons Features Comments Moderation Workflow Content recommendations Emails Customizable dashboard Taxonomy, tag view/cloud Groups Spaces Search, including faceted User relationships User profiles Badges Friend Status http://commons.acquia.com/

8. Drupal Commons http://commons.acquia.com/

9. Features Session submission, voting and moderation Session schedule grid, personalized attendee schedules Easy event registration and attendee management Community features Easy sponsors management http://usecod.com/

10. http://usecod.com/

11. OpenPublish Designed specifically for the online news industry Content creation and delivery is easy and intuitive, while robust features maximize site engagement and monetization. http://openpublishapp.com/

12. Open Publish Features Content Articles Blogs Events Multimedia Content Monetization Gated content In Stream Advertising Semantic Tools Advanced Content Tagging Geotagging and Maps Content Suggestions with ‘more like this’ SEO SEO Friendly URLs, XML Sitemap, Search, Keywords & Metadata http://openpublishapp.com/

13. Open Publish Features Engagement & Syndication Commenting with most popular Facebook Integrations Featured Content Social Bookmarking & Email Forwarding Topic Hubs Asset Management Source Documents Image Management http://openpublishapp.com/

15. Open Outreach Created to provide grassroots, activist, and nonprofit groups with the web tools they need for effective public E nabl es small groups with limited budgets to become more independent in setting up and maintaining their own website http://openoutreach.org/

16. Open Outreach Features Article Blog Comment Event Forum Colour customization Home page carousel Links Media SEO Social links WYSIWYG http://openoutreach.org/

17. http://openoutreach.org/

18. Drupal Gardens E asily build websites to manage users, site structure and content The power of Drupal is a click away Choose from several customizable themes Build one site - duplicate to your heart's content http://www.drupalgardens.com/

19. Drupal Gardens Features http://www.drupalgardens.com/

20. Drupal Gardens Features

21. http://www.drupalgardens.com/

22. Open Atrium http://openatrium.com/ @Open_Atrium

23. http://openatrium.com/ @Open_Atrium

24. Pressflow is a derivative of Drupal core providing enhanced performance, scalability, and data integrity Leverag es Four Kitchens’ industry-leading experience in scaling high-traffic, Drupal-based sites Pressflow integrates the most popular enhancements to Drupal core into a single deployable package http://pressflow.org/ @Pressflow

25. What makes Pressflow scale Support for database replication Support for Squid and Varnish reverse proxy caching Optimization for MySQL Optimization for PHP 5 http://pressflow.org/ @Pressflow

26. Octopus Video http://octopusvideo.org/ @Octopusvideo HTML5 & Flash Player Multiple encoding formats Encoding services Mobile devices Video Statistics CND Support

27. Tips for building a site off a Drupal distribution F amiliarity with Features http://drupal.org/project/features http://affinitybridge.com/blog/drupal-features-module-abridged http://drupal.org/node/580026 How much should you customize the site versus taking it as it is? H ow do upgrades work? http://chocolatelilyweb.ca/tips-on-building-off-a-drupal-distribution

28. Key Decisions Stay on the distribution's upgrade path "Fork" the site, taking it in its own direction and handle updates yourself rather than relying on future releases of the distribution Combine the tw o

29. Customizing the Distro? Selectively turn off UI feature modules, if the distribution includes them Make your module additions in sites/all/modules or sites/default/modules Isolate your changes Carefully track any changes you make to components that ship with the distribution

30. Q & A

31. THANK YOU! @anneaconda