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Earlier this month, NetSquared was generous enough to fund my attendance at the Lullabot Drupal Intensive workshop in Providence, Rhode Island. Drupal is a free, open-source content management system that allows non-technical users to update your site and is capable of powering blogs, community sites, action-oriented campaigns and social networks along the lines of MySpace and Facebook. Lullabot, a Drupal development firm that involved in much of the Drupal development, has a keen interest in Drupal for nonprofits.
Well, it's been a couple days and the news has been on the front page of drupal.org, but I am very excited by the fact that the Drupal 6 will officially support OpenID. It's taken a lot of work, so it feels really really nice to have it done. I wanted to post to (hopefully) answer some common questions that I've received and seen about the module:
Many companies are interested in the possibilities of content management, to help them build websites which are easy to maintain. But the prohibitive cost of most commercial content management systems (CMSs) can be a put off. Open source CMSs offer a cost effective way to build a "content managed website". In this series of articles, we review some of the better known offerings, and explain how they could be put to use within an organisation.
Last night I gave a talk on the value of the content management system (CMS) at the Princeton Public Library. Most of it was live demos of Drupal, Joomla and the Jenkins Law Library intranet (a homegrown CMS), but I also had a few intro slides that are now on my Publications & Presentations page
 Gábor Hojtsy shares his insights from comparing several open source CMSs, including Joomla!, Drupal, Plone andTypo3 specific to multilingual support... So which one is the best? "...while generic database overlays are marketed as the most versatile solution, they are very unfriendly and limited for the end users.
Drupal
Source: Drupal statistics at Ohloh.
I. Is Drupal similar to other CMS?1. Giving a point by point comparison of Drupal and traditional content management systems (CMS) like PHPNuke, PostNuke or XOOPs is a tricky and difficult undertaking because of two reasons: First, a comparative matrix of features will not accurately tell the tale. Second, Drupal’s impact is more on the back-end and can only be fully appreciated by web programmers/developers.
Hot off the gossip wire: IBM is falling for Drupal. Hmmmm. ECM leader IBM has developed a series of nine tutorials for Open Source CMS Drupal. And as it turns out, Drupal runs rather well on IBM Linux servers while plugged-into IBM’s DB2 Express-C database. The final tutorial covers just exactly how to do that. The IBM team compared several popular products including Mambo, Typo3, Ruby on Rails, Movable Type, WordPress, and TextPattern before selecting Drupal.
I originally wrote this article for the Xaneon Development site way back in August 2005. After Xaneon shut down and this article became unavailable, a number of people e-mailed me to ask for it, so I dug up my local copy and decided to publish it here. Note that since this was written, Mambo has become Joomla and both Drupal and Joomla have evolved and come out with new releases. Nevertheless, for what it’s worth, here follows the article in its original form.
Since our announcement regarding the impending demise of XE2, we’ve received a ton of e-mail from people asking us to elaborate on the reasons we decided to “defect” from Mambo to Drupal. Instead of answering this question over and over, we’ve decided to publish a brief (well, that was the intention, anyway…) overview of what has led us to, ultimately, abandon Mambo.
These are my notes from John Jones‘ presentation “Drupal for Education” at the TTT Conference in Wichita, Kansas, on 12 June 2008. Copyright © 2008 GLORilla.com All Rights Reserved. |
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