Drupal has gained a lot of popularity over the last few years - and the media industry is no exception. Berlingske Media currently runs 7 Drupal-installations serving 31 sites - and more coming soon. This lightning talk will focus on the experiences we have developing news and media sites in Drupal and our thoughts for the future. Arne Jørgensen is softwarearchitect at Berlingske Media. Talk at Open Source Days, 2008.

1. Drupal Experiences
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5. And soon releasing:
fri.dk
dinepenge.dk
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6. Special needs in media
● Short deadlines
● Professional content providers
(journalists, editors)
● Special needs
● We never finish a site
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7. Experiences so far
● Succes
● Development reduced to 60%
● Focus on interesting parts
● Happy developers
● Happy users
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8. Developing sites in Drupal
● Very good basis
● Lot's of stuff done right
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Good 3rd party modules
● Easy to extend
● Very good design
● We still have to develop our own modules
● SEO-friendly
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9. Hacking core and modules
● Don't
● Upgrading will be like hell
● Document it
● Choose a strategy
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10. Hosting
● Solid and stable
● Scales well
– Watch out for peaks
– Scale on hardware
– Scale through caching
● Linux / open source → freedom to choose
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11. The future
● Configuration management
● Release management
● Extend the modular approach
● Build very flexible sites
● There is a trend in media towards Drupal
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12. Questions?
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13. More Drupal later today
● Mikkel Høgh: Why use Drupal?
● 15:00
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Track 3 – aud. 3, 2nd floor
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