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What is Drupal ? Where does it come from ? What can I do with it ? Who's using it ? Who's who in Drupal ? Some cool features ? How is a Drupal site built ? What skills are involved in a good Drupal site ? Where is Drupal now ? Does Drupal play well with others ?
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Drupal
Bird’s eye view
Bird’s eye view (1)
• What is Drupal ?
• Where does it come from ?
• What can I do with it ?
• Who’s using it ?
• Who’s who in Drupal ?
• Some cool features ?
Bird’s eye view (2)
• How is a Drupal site built ?
• What skills are involved in a good Drupal
site ?
• Where is Drupal now ?
• Does Drupal play well with others ?
What is Drupal ?
Defini7on
Drupal is a completely free, open source content management
system that many intelligent companies are using today to provide
for their needs. Drupal's many features and add-‐ons allow it to be
used for a variety of website needs; perhaps for marke7ng,
internal communica7ons, informa7onal websites, or for social
networking purposes. If a needed feature is not currently available,
it has a proven community of developers who can be paid to do
the work for you. Drupal's access control system means that it can
be easily applied to your organiza7onal structure. Overall, Drupal is
a good choice for today's companies of any size because it is free,
easy, and incredibly flexible.
CMS/ CMF
• Content Management System
• Content Management Framework
• Community Management System
• CommunicaDon Management System
Built on LAMP / MAMP / WAMP
Linux (Windows / OS X / Solaris)
Apache MySQL
PHP
Drupal
GPL license
Core
Modules
Themes
Transla7
ons
Install
profi
les
Architecture
Core
Modules
Themes
Transla7
ons
Install
profi
les
Modules
Themes
Contribute Core
Modules
Themes
Custom
Pluggable
Where does it come from ?
Dries Buytaert
• Drupal founder
• Belgian ciDzen
• Discussion board for
his dorm (drop.org)
• Open sourced in
2001
The name
• dorp.org
misregistered as
drop.org
• drop is english for
“druppel”
• drupal is english
rendering for
“druppel”
What can I do with it ?
Blog
Corporate
Photo galleries
Video galleries
Forums
E-‐commerce
E-‐learning
Community
Contests
Events
Intranet
WIKI
ApplicaDons
Who’s using it ?
Media
Corporate
Non-‐profit
EducaDon
SoZware
PoliDcs
ArDsts
Health
Magazines
Entertainment
News
Government
Who’s who in Drupal ?
Dries Buytaert
• Founder and lead
developer
• Permanent core
commi[er
• Trademark owner
Branch maintainers
Neil Drumm (D5)
Gabor Hojtsy (D6)
Angie Byron (D7)
Maintainers and contributors
• Maintainers
• Core contributors
• Module contributors
• Theme contributors
• TranslaDon contributors
• DocumentaDon contributors
Drupal agencies
Acquia
• Acquia Drupal (DistribuDon)
• Acquia Network (Monitoring, CRON, Docs,
Forum, ...)
• Search (Apache Solr)
• Professional Services (Training, Audits, ...)
Some cool features ?
Cool != the usual suspects...
• Content creaDon
• Taxonomy
• Menu
• PublicaDon status
• User management
• Permissions
• ...
Blocks
Content ConstrucDon Kit (1)
Content ConstrucDon Kit (2)
Views (1)
Views (2)
RSS
MulDlingual sites
Interface translaDon
Content translaDon
Form builder (1)
Form builder (2)
Form builder (3)
Clean URLs
Image presets
Scheduling
MulDsite
How is a Drupal site built ?
Premises
• InformaDon Architecture
• Usability
• Design
Select exisDng modules that implement some funcDonality
Code custom modules for missing funcDonality
Configure
Create a theme for custom look and feel
Tweaking
Launch
Champagne
Maintenance
What skills are involved in a good Drupal site ?
Some programming
Some client side stuff
Some design
Some server stuff
Some spicy extras
Some common sense
Where is Drupal now ?
Tons of acDve installaDons
... and growing
Lots of high profile installaDons
Lots of press coverage
Gartner puts Drupal in the visionary quadrant
Keeps winning awards
© 2009 Open Source CMS market share report by Water & Stone and CMSWire.
Investments in the trademark
1000s of modules and themes
TranslaDons for 100 languages
1000s of developers
Lots of events
drupal.org redesign
new logo
Drupal 7
Does Drupal play well with others ?
Does Drupal play well with others?
• Open standards (RDF, OpenID,
OpenSocial, ...)
• IntegraDon with exisDng plahorms (phpBB,
magento, ...)
• IntegraDon with social media, ...
• No data lock-‐in.
• MulD plahorm.
QuesDons ?
Contact
• Davy Van Den Bremt
• twi[er.com/davyvandenbremt
• drupalcoder.com
• drupal.org/user/185175
