This document compares the content management systems WordPress and Drupal, providing pros for each, and discusses how to choose between them based on skills, needs, and users. It also touches on trends in open source software and collaboration, envisioning a future "Internet Operating System". The key factors to consider are your skills, technical requirements, user roles, and end goals for your site or content.

1. Wordpress + Drupal
The way to enlightenment
Amye Scavarda - amye@msamye.com
WordCamp Vancouver - June 12, 2010

2. I am:
A Wordpress blogger Drupal Project Manager
Someone who plays in Open Source Project Management
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and I run a company that does this.
@msamye
Function - http://createfunction.com

3. Why?
Wordpress: Drupal:
-- Joyful -- Flexible
-- Resourceful -- Dragon-slaying
-- Quick -- Comprehensive

4. Decisionmaking
Your skills
Schema - Architecture - Technical
Roles
End Purposes
Your Users
Your Clients

5. This is your content.

6. This is your site on Wordpress.

7. This is your site on Drupal.

8. This is your misconfigured Drupal site.

9. So what?

10. Looking towards the future

11. Open Source Successes:
Software as Commodity
Network enabled collaboration
Customizability, Software as a
Service
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Building the Internet Operating
System
http://tim.oreilly.com/articles/paradigmshift_0504.html

12. Cross Pollination!

13. Your thoughts?