drupal: community plumbing for public libraries

Drupal: Community Plumbing

Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS

Library Services Manager

OPLIN

laura@oplin.org

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