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INTRODUCING DRUPALTHE MOST ADVANCED OPEN SOURCE

CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND WEBAPPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

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A web, mobile, Drupal design and development services provider based in Lagos, Nigeria, Phone: 081 7608 4053 Email: info@icelark.com

Tony N. Ogbonna (CEO/Developer Icelark Projects) @togbonna

Icelark Projects (www.icelark.com) @icelarkProjects

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WHAT IS DRUPAL?

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WHAT IS DRUPAL?Personally...

"Drupal is... knowing that I have invested time and money ina web platform which can grow and evolve with my

business, no matter what opportunities and challenges thefuture may bring"

"Drupal ... is the Swiss Army Knife of website development".

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WHAT IS DRUPAL?Officially...

Drupal is an open source content management platformpowering millions of websites and applications.

It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diversecommunity of people around the world.

Motto: Come for the software, stay for the community.

Official Websites: | www.drupal.org www.drupal.com

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WHAT IS DRUPAL?Further...

A content management system (CMS) and a web applicationdevelopment framework.

So, what is a CMS?

A piece of software used to organize, update and presentwebsites. A type of online web application.

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WHAT IS A CMS?A computer program that allows for the publishing, editing

and modifying of content as well as maintenance from acentral interface.

Are often used to run websites containing blogs, news,shopping, etc. Many corporate and marketing websites use

CMSs.

typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding and runningwebsites manually.

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BUT DRUPAL IS MUCH MORE THAN ACMS...

It is a Web Experience Management system:

1. Content Management2. Community Management3. Commerce Management4. Much more...

Drupal is designed to make it easy for non-technical users toadd, edit and manage different varieties of websites or web

applications.

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DRUPAL AS AN APPLICATIONFRAMEWORK...

A piece of software with which you can build otherapplication software. Can be what you want it to be.

As a result, Drupal is usually described as...

Powerful, flexible

Extensible, reliable, configurable

Scalable, stable and secure

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AWARDS...Drupal has been winning, at least one, awards every year

since 2006

2014CMS Critic Critics’ Choice: Best Enterprise PHP CMSCMS Critic Peoples’ Choice: Best Enterprise PHP CMSWeblizar: Top 10 PHP CMS

2013Critic's Choice Award 2013: Best Free CMS

2012Infoworld Bossie Awards 2012: The best open sourceapplications

AWARDS (CONTINUES)...

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2011Infoworld Bossie Awards 2011: The best open sourceapplications

2010Infoworld Bossie Awards 2010: The best open sourceapplicationsPackt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: OpenSource CMS Hall of Fame (2nd place)

2009Webware 100Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: Best PHPOpen Source Content Management System (1st place)Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: OpenSource CMS Hall of Fame

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AWARDS (CONTINUES)...2008

Webware 100Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: BestOverall Open Source CMS (1st place)Best PHP Open Source Content Management System(1st place)

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AWARDS (CONTINUES)...2007

Webware 100Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: BestOverall Open Source CMS (1st place)Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: Best PHPOpen Source Content Management System (1st place)Packt Publishing Best Open Source Social NetworkingContent Management System (2nd place tie)

2006Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: BestOverall Open Source CMS (2nd place)

Source: https://www.drupal.org/about/awards

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HISTORY: SO WHERE DID DRUPALCOME FROM?

Dries Buytaert 2000, a student of the University of Antwerp,Belgium at that time.

Built a web blog to communicate with his friends.

After graduation he release the code as open source.

Fast-forward to today, Drupal is maintained by one of thelargest open source community in the world.

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DRUPAL IN PERSPECTIVETo date Drupal has...

...8 core versions and the core code base is updated at leastonce every month.

As a result your website will always be up to date in terms ofsecurity and web standards.

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To date Drupal has...

...over 32, 000 extension modules, over 2, 000 themes andclose to 1000 distributions.

These represents various functionality with which you cancreate almost any type of website or web application you

can imagine.

Most likely, a module exists for your every need.

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To date Drupal has...

...over 1.2 Million people in 228 countries (including Nigeria)speaking 181 languages power Drupal.

2% of websites in the entire Internet runs on Drupal.

6% of the top 1 million websites runs on Drupal.

9% of the top 100k websites runs on Drupal.

As a result Drupal is well tested, robust and very secure.

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WHO IS USING DRUPAL?

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DRUPAL AS A PUBLISHINGPLATFORM

NBC: http://www.nbc.com

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Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com

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The Economist: http://www.economist.com

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DRUPAL IN GOVERNMENTWhitehouse.gov

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http://www.australia.gov.au

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Offical French Govt Portal: http://www.gouvernement.fr

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French Senate: http://www.publicsenat.fr/

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DRUPAL IN TOP UNIVERSITIESHarvard: http://www.harvard.edu

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Stanford: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu

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Oxford: http://www.ox.ac.uk

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DRUPAL IN THE ENTERTAINMENTINDUSTRY

Pink: http://www.pinkspage.com

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Michael Jackson: http://www.michaeljackson.com

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Warner Bros: http://www.warnerbros.com

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Grammy Awards: https://www.grammy.com

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WWE: http://www.wwe.com

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Lady Gaga: http://www.ladygaga.com

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DRUPAL IN NON-PROFITSAmnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org.uk

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GreenPeace: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk

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United Nations: http://www.un.org/en/index.html

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Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org

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World Economic Forum: http://www.weforum.org

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Red Cross: http://www.redcrossblood.org

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Rotary International: https://www.rotary.org

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Doctors Without Borders:http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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DRUPAL IN BIG ENTERPRISE(FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES)

Nokia: http://www.nokia.com

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Pinterest: https://business.pinterest.com/en

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Twitter: https://dev.twitter.com

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Tesla: http://www.teslamotors.com

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DRUPAL IN NIGERIAMTN: http://www.mtnonline.com

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Edo State Government: http://webportal.edostate.gov.ng

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Udenu Local Government: http://udenu.en.gov.ng

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Deluxe Online Shopping : http://deluxe.com.ng

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Edusko (Online Schools Info System): http://edusko.com

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ShippingPosition Online: http://shippingposition.com.ng

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THE FUTUREHistory of the web...

1990: The Static Web

1995: The Dynamic Web

2005: The Assembled Web

2015: ???

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THE FUTURE?The Experience Web

The Internet of Things

The Rise of Mobile

Drupal as a hub for third-party aggregations...

... Headless Drupal

Drupal is moving beyond the dynamic and Assembled Weband heading towards the Experience Web

THE FUTURE...Multiple Channel Integration potentials: RESTful API,Semantic web, 100s/1000s of 3rd party integrations

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THE FUTURE IS NOW: DRUPAL 8 ISOUT!

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THE FUTURE IS NOW: DRUPAL 8 ISOUT!

The Latest version of Drupal: Drupal 8

The long awaited stable version of Drupal 8 (Drupal 8.0) wasreleased yesterday!

Join us at the end of this event tomorrow when we join therest of the world to celebrate the release of Drupal 8!

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IN CLOSING..."Drupal is radically changing online spaces."

"Is your space one of them?"

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"Drupal is the framework with which I launch my mind in theweb."

THANK YOU!

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