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Drupal: Community Plumbing
Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS
Library Services Manager
OPLIN
druplicon
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{Dutch} druppel
pronounces Drupal {English}
means drop {English}
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What is Drupal?
•Content management system (CMS)
•Open source (GPL)
•Mostly/entirely W3C compliant
•Extremely extensible
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What can you do with it? •Small or large scale web sites •Blogs •Collaborative authoring environments •Forums •Newsletters •Podcasts /videos/images•File uploads and downloads •Tags•Limit access by role•A heck of a lot more…
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Who uses Drupal?
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What does it take to run?
•Apache/IIS
•PHP
•MySQL/PostgreSQL
•Patience
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Drupal
You
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Things to think about….
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So why climb the cliff?
• It’s all free!• No commercial
vendor• Little to no licensing
worries• Runs on multiple
platforms• Dynamic• Highly customizable
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So why climb the cliff? (con’t)
• Re-theming capability (CSS)
• Granular level of customization
• Huge community
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•600+ developers for core •800+ developers for contributions•600+ modules •250+ themes •40 languages localization
source: knaddison.com/book/export/s5/475 (2007 numbers)
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Award-winning CMS
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Source: Drupal
booklet
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Contributions
Modules
Core (optional)
Core (required)
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Core (required)
• Block - box display
• Filter - input format
• Node - content
• System - admin, theming, ...
• User
• Watchdog - logging
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Core (optional)
•Blog •Comment
•Forum•Menu
•Locale •Path
•Poll •Profile •Search
•Statistics•Taxonomy
•Uploads
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The future of Drupal
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More info…
• Drupal.org
• Groups.drupal.org
• #drupal and #drupal-support on IRC
• @drupal, @drupal_modules & @drupal_themes
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Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-fifth-birthday-drupal