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Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to set up scores of different kinds of web applications.

Harvard using Drupal

Harvard's Science and Engineering department is now using drupal!

Drupal Tech Talk at Google

via drupal.org - News and announcements by webchick on 10/15/07

check out the full-sized video

Update: new module released: Taxonomy Super Select

These Drupal sites include:

* community web portals and discussion sites
* corporate web sites/intranet portals
* personal web sites
* aficionado sites
* e-commerce applications
* resource directories

Drupal includes features to enable

* content management systems
* blogs
* collaborative authoring environments
* forums
* newsletters
* picture galleries
* file uploads and download

and much more.

Drupal is open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. Drupal is free to download and use. If you like what Drupal can do for you, please work with us to expand and refine Drupal to suit your needs.

IBM on Drupal

Authors:

Alister Lewis-Bowen: Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Stephen Evanchik: Software Engineer, IBM
Louis Weitzman: Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Decision to use Drupal

Because we needed to make this Web site design easy for ourselves and anyone adopting the solution, the ease of installing the framework and the time it would take to figure out how to use it was a key factor. While Ruby on Rails (ROR) was intriguing, we decided that too much time would be spent writing a CMS from scratch, so ROR was dropped from our consideration.

If we were to be able to effectively control access to the information for each persona, having robust and flexible session and user management would make our implementation easier. Of course, the speed of implementation would also be improved by having a robust pluggable infrastructure backed up with a vibrant community contributing quality extensions to the existing framework.

Another key aspect was the potential to ramp up the scalability as the number of concurrent users started to increase.

The ease of adjusting the way the content was displayed was crucial; we needed to remain flexible during iterations of the design and any future adjustments. This so-called "themability" also was required for using the current best practices of Web design with respect to semantic xHTML, CSS, and accessible design.

Figure 1 shows a comparison of how the candidates met our requirements. It was obvious that we needed something more than the blog engines could provide.

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Mambo was very appealing from the ease of install and the UI, but the development track at the time was fractured and didn't give us any confidence of support.

Typo3 seemed to have a huge community and the maturity we were looking for. However, the learning curve for using Typo3 is daunting in comparison to Drupal.

We did have to invest some time to learn the Drupal way, and the framework just seemed to make sense. We also felt that Drupal provided the right combination of framework and flexibility to break out of the framework when needed to get the job done. With all things considered, we decided to use Drupal. The landscape of open source CMS is continuously changing, and in the future we'll revisit these and any new entries in the field.

Google on Drupal

Google Summer of Code™

The Google Summer of Code is Google's program designed to introduce students to the world of open source software development.

Drupal is a popular and well respected web application framework and content management system written in PHP. Famous for its extensible architecture, high quality code, and vibrant community, Drupal is becoming the #1 choice for Web 2.0 sites based on LAMP technologies. The Drupal community has been preparing for Summer of Code 2006, and we are happy to offer the unique proposition that every student we accept into the program will have two dedicated mentors to work with. Summer of Code 2005 was a stunning success for Drupal and we look forward to building on that success in 2005. We look forward to your application. The latest version of Drupal, 4.7.0, has been released on May 1! There has never been a more exciting time than the present to become involved with Drupal.

United Nations using Drupal

via Dries Buytaert - Personal website of Dries Buytaert by Dries on 10/10/07

The United Nations is using Drupal for their End Poverty Campaign. The site is part of a network of Drupal sites that stand up against poverty. This network of sites is part of the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they agreed to meet the millennium development goals.

The End Poverty site was built by Development Seed. They told me that the United Nations has been pushing the envelope by funding the work on some forthcoming internationalization features that will be used to replicate some of their sites in multiple languages.

Glad to see that the United Nations are good (Drupal) community players. ;)

It is great to help make a product that many people like, but it is even better when that product helps improve the world a little bit!