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Drupal 201: The Poster Child for Web 2.0 Community-Driven Website
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Presented by Travis Wissink at CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit on Web Content Management, November 26, 2007.
Drupal recently became a winner of CNet’s Webware 100 award in the publishing category. Drupal is a Free and Open Source Web Content Management software and a web application framework. It is highly used and has been included in the Google Summer of Code (SoC) project. The Google SoC reference’s Drupal as being the poster child for Web 2.0 community driven web site software. I will describe and demonstrate some of the major features of the software as well as some of the limitations. Some specific features we’ll look at are the Content Construction Kit, Views, Taxonomy, and some Content Management functions.
Drupal adheres to some good content management practices. During the discussion we will look and modify some configuration areas for the more technical savvy as well as look at the content managers and content authors interfaces. Although, a computer isn’t required if you bring you laptop you will be able to log on to the site and manage content.
Drupal recently became a winner of CNet’s Webware 100 award in the publishing category. Drupal is a Free and Open Source Web Content Management software and a web application framework. It is highly used and has been included in the Google Summer of Code (SoC) project. The Google SoC reference’s Drupal as being the poster child for Web 2.0 community driven web site software. I will describe and demonstrate some of the major features of the software as well as some of the limitations. Some specific features we’ll look at are the Content Construction Kit, Views, Taxonomy, and some Content Management functions.
Drupal adheres to some good content management practices. During the discussion we will look and modify some configuration areas for the more technical savvy as well as look at the content managers and content authors interfaces. Although, a computer isn’t required if you bring you laptop you will be able to log on to the site and manage content.
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Run your project with Quadruple A
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Drupal The poster child for web 2.0 community driven websites
The CMPros Summit
26 November 2007
By: Travis Wissink@
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Agenda
Drupal– History
– Community
– Creditability
Web 2.0– Use cases for communities
– Drupal for communities
Scripts– Register– Theme– Blog entry based off of news
feed– Comments– Votes
– Add Event– Threaded forum– Add profile element
Drupal
A Content Management System (CMS)– For everyday users, it comes with ready-to-use
tools to publish and organize content– Configurable into different website flavors, from
personal blogs to large community sites
A Content Management Framework (CMF)Free Open Source Software (GPL)
– Runs on PHP with an SQL backend
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Access
http://www.composibility.com/drupalMember1/passwordBarry/passwordCanada1/password
Or create your own user.
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Drupal history
Internal message board in a Belgium student dorm 1999
Message board made public as drop.org in 2000Experiment with self-regulating online communities
(moderation, rating, syndication, distributed authentication, ...)
Drupal 1.0 released on January 15, 2001Druplicon logo born.Current version Drupal 5.3
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The Community of Drupal
Drupal.org– 60,000 nodes– 59,000 registered users
Conferences– Twice yearly global conferences– Local conferences and events
Forums IRC Mailing lists Local and SIGs (groups.drupal.org)
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Who uses Drupal
Besides Drupal.orgThe OnionMTV uk> 61k websites
– Informally do a google url search for node/feed
Sony BMG
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Web 2.0 BS generator
reinvent user-centered weblogssyndicate rss-capable life-hacksaggregate authentic folksonomiesintegrate embedded APIscapture viral weblogs
http://www.emptybottle.org/bullshit/
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Web 2.0
Web as a Platform– Widgets…
Architecture of Participation– Harness collective knowledge– Websites become conversations– Users add value
Network Effects by Default– Reed’s Law
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(O'Reilly, 2005)
Community use cases in Web 2.0
Member to member communication
Community discussion builders
Community creditability
Content Quality
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Communities in Drupal’s
Member to member communication– Forums– Messaging– Events
Community discussion builders– News Aggregation– Events– Articles– Polls
Community creditability– Syndication– Member attribution
Content Quality– Quality points– Content discussion
(internal and external)
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Modules
Organic GroupsCCKViewsEventsNode VoteUser Points
FreelinkingModr8SitemapTinymceAdmin Menu
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When you succeed
Infrastructure Scale– 5 deployment configurations (Quinn, 2007)
How to monetize
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Summary
Web 2.0 Platform Participation Network effects
Drupal CCK, Views, Sitemap Organic Groups, Node
Votes, User Points, Forum Scale
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Works Cited
Baheyeldin, K. (2006, May 12). DrupalCamp Toronto
Presentation: Building Drupal Community Sites. Retrieved
November 11, 2007, from http://2bits.com: http://2bits.com/news/drupalcamp-toronto-presentation-building-drupal-community-sites.html
O'Reilly, T. (2005, September 30). What Is Web 2.0. Retrieved Nov 11, 2007, from O'Reilly: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1
Quinn, J. (2007, October 28). scaling drupal - an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites. Retrieved November 11, 2007, from john & cailin: http://www.johnandcailin.com/blog/john/scaling-drupal-open-source-infrastructure-high-traffic-drupal-sites
Westgate, M., & VanDyk, J. K. (2007). Pro Drupal Development. Berkeley, Ca: Apress.
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Thanks for Attending!
This presentation is available at www.Composibility.com
Any Questions?
References:iainstitute.org, cmpros.org, Information Architecture (The polar bear book) by Louis Rosenfeld
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