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Drupal: Community Plumbing Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS Library Services Manager OPLIN [email_address] druplicon Some content & graphics courtesy of Isriya Paireepairit

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{Dutch} druppel pronounces Drupal {English} means drop {English}

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<ul><li>What is Drupal? </li></ul><ul><li>Content management system (CMS) </li></ul><ul><li>Open source (GPL) </li></ul><ul><li>Mostly/entirely W3C compliant </li></ul><ul><li>Extremely extensible </li></ul>

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<ul><li>What can you do with it? </li></ul><ul><li>Small or large scale web sites </li></ul><ul><li>Blogs </li></ul><ul><li>Collaborative authoring environments </li></ul><ul><li>Forums </li></ul><ul><li>Newsletters </li></ul><ul><li>Podcasts /videos/images </li></ul><ul><li>File uploads and downloads </li></ul><ul><li>Tags </li></ul><ul><li>Limit access by role </li></ul><ul><li>A heck of a lot more… </li></ul>

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Who uses Drupal?

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What does it take to run? <ul><li>Apache/IIS </li></ul><ul><li>PHP </li></ul><ul><li>MySQL/PostgreSQL </li></ul><ul><li>Patience </li></ul>

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Drupal You

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Things to think about….

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So why climb the cliff? <ul><li>It’s all free! </li></ul><ul><li>No commercial vendor </li></ul><ul><li>Little to no licensing worries </li></ul><ul><li>Runs on multiple platforms </li></ul><ul><li>Dynamic </li></ul><ul><li>Highly customizable </li></ul>

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So why climb the cliff? (con’t) <ul><li>Re-theming capability (CSS) </li></ul><ul><li>Granular level of customization </li></ul><ul><li>Huge community </li></ul>

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<ul><li>600+ developers for core </li></ul><ul><li>800+ developers for contributions </li></ul><ul><li>600+ modules </li></ul><ul><li>250+ themes </li></ul><ul><li>40 languages localization </li></ul>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) <ul><li>• Block - box display </li></ul><ul><li>• Filter - input format </li></ul><ul><li>• Node - content </li></ul><ul><li>• System - admin, theming, ... </li></ul><ul><li>• User </li></ul><ul><li>• Watchdog - logging </li></ul>

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Core (optional) <ul><li>Blog </li></ul><ul><li>Comment </li></ul><ul><li>Forum </li></ul><ul><li>Menu </li></ul><ul><li>Locale </li></ul><ul><li>Path </li></ul><ul><li>Poll </li></ul><ul><li>Profile </li></ul><ul><li>Search </li></ul><ul><li>Statistics </li></ul><ul><li>Taxonomy </li></ul><ul><li>Uploads </li></ul>

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The future of Drupal

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More info… <ul><li>Drupal.org </li></ul><ul><li>Groups.drupal.org </li></ul><ul><li>#drupal and #drupal-support on IRC </li></ul><ul><li>@drupal, @drupal_modules & @drupal_themes </li></ul>

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Source: http://buytaert.net/happy-fifth-birthday-drupal

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The Drupal Song