drupal: community plumbing for public libraries
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Looking for a better way to manage your web site content? Want more advanced functionality and/or social networking features? Join Laura Solomon of OPLIN as she discusses one of the more popular open source content management systems; Drupal. Drupal has gained a lot of library proponents and won several major awards. Learn more about the pros and cons of this open source content management system and how libraries of all sizes are using it to make their web presences more effective and efficient.TRANSCRIPT
Drupal: Community Plumbing
Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS
Library Services Manager
OPLIN
druplicon
Some content & graphics courtesy of Isriya Paireepairit
{Dutch} druppel
pronounces Drupal {English}
means drop {English}
What is Drupal?
•Content management system (CMS)
•Open source (GPL)
•Mostly/entirely W3C compliant
•Extremely extensible
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…
Who uses Drupal?
What does it take to run?
•Apache/IIS
•PHP
•MySQL/PostgreSQL
•Patience
Drupal
You
Things to think about….
So why climb the cliff?
• It’s all free!• No commercial
vendor• Little to no licensing
worries• Runs on multiple
platforms• Dynamic• Highly customizable
So why climb the cliff? (con’t)
• Re-theming capability (CSS)
• Granular level of customization
• Huge community
•600+ developers for core •800+ developers for contributions•600+ modules •250+ themes •40 languages localization
source: knaddison.com/book/export/s5/475 (2007 numbers)
Award-winning CMS
Source: Drupal
booklet
Contributions
Modules
Core (optional)
Core (required)
Core (required)
• Block - box display
• Filter - input format
• Node - content
• System - admin, theming, ...
• User
• Watchdog - logging
Core (optional)
•Blog •Comment
•Forum•Menu
•Locale •Path
•Poll •Profile •Search
•Statistics•Taxonomy
•Uploads
The future of Drupal
More info…
• Drupal.org
• Groups.drupal.org
• #drupal and #drupal-support on IRC
• @drupal, @drupal_modules & @drupal_themes
Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-fifth-birthday-drupal
The Drupal Song