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Drupal Workshop Intro
1) The document discusses Drupal, an open-source content management system (CMS). It provides an overview of Drupal's community support, commercial involvement, and business case. 2) As open-source software, Drupal has no acquisition costs, a thriving developer community, and is commercially supported through platforms like Acquia and Drupal Gardens. 3) The business case for Drupal includes its interoperability, vast library of modules, growing reputation, and technical resources for achieving objectives with content management.
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Drupal Workshop Intro
- 1. Achieving Objectives withDrupal 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
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- 3. Open Source CMSCommunity Resources Support Modules Themes Deployments Business Case for Drupal
- 4. Drupal Is: OpenSource Community Supported Commercially Supported Content Management System
- 5. 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
- 6. Open Source Sourcecode in public domain GPL – General Public License Acquisition cost = $0
- 7. Community Supported Thrivingdeveloper community Aggressive adoption of CMS Hundreds of applications
- 8. Commercial Involvement Commercial Drupal Support Platform Stability Support Essential Modules Search Hosting Drupal Gardens & Buzzr Authorized Support Network
- 9. Business Case forDrupal A Mercenary’s Perspective
- 10. Business Case forDrupal ~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
- 11. Business Case forDrupal Interoperability Functionality Commercial Support Growing Reputation Technical Resources
- 12. Business Case forDrupal Interoperability Acquia Drupal Downloadable from Microsoft Website New SQL server driver for PHP Drupal 7 runs SQL server Also support for other DB
- 13. Business Case forDrupal Functionality 6700 Contribute Projects “ There’s a module for that”
- 14. Business Case forDrupal
- 15. Business Case forDrupal Commercial Support
- 16. Achieving Objectives withDrupal Content Management Jeff Eaton - Lollabot Josh Ward - Volacci Emanuel London - DuoConsulting Ryan Szrama – Commerce Guys Doug Vann – Doug Vann Consulting Sonny Cohen – Duo Consulting