After three years of development Drupal 7 is finally here providing a powerful open source solution that is more flexible and more scalable than ever. Vast improvements in usability and functionality allow site developers to roll out their sites in less time. Now is the time to upgrade your website to Drupal 7. Join Erik Webb and Jacob Singh for this one-hour webinar where they will show you just how new and improved Drupal 7 is. Attendees will learn: -How to take advantage of all the new features -Considerations when upgrading your site to Drupal 7 -Next steps for getting your upgrade started

1. Upgrading Your Website to Drupal 7
Jacob Singh Erik Webb Matt Ackley
Principal Engineer Technical Consultant Marketing
Acquia Acquia Acquia
@jacobsingh @erikwebb @mbackley
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2. Upcoming Webinars
Thursday February 10th 1pm Eastern Time, 12 pm UTC
–OpenPublish Webinar: Work ow for Editors
Register Today - http://acquia.com/webinars
Thursday, February 3, 2011

3. Upcoming Training Events - February & March 2011
http://training.acquia.com/events
March 1-3, Geneva, Switzerland
February 7 - 9, Manchester, UK – Drupal in a Day
– Drupal in a Day – Site Building with Drupal
– Site Building with Drupal March 7-9, Edinburgh, Scotland
February 23-25, Leuven, Belgium – Drupal in a Day
– Drupal Module Development – Site Building with Drupal
Throughout February - March in Victoria, March 21-24, Washington DC
Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal
– Drupal in a Day
Canada
– Site Building with Drupal
– Drupal in a Day
March 29-31, Paris, France
– Site Building with Drupal
– Drupal in a Day
– Theming and Module Development
– Site Building with Drupal
Register for Drupal Training in your area
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4. Introduction
Jacob Singh
–Principal Engineer, Acquia
Erik Webb
–Technical Consultant, Acquia
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5. Introduction
What are the new features worth upgrading for?
What is the status of D7 in the wild?
What you need to know to decide if you should
upgrade
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6. What’s new?
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7. Built in content elds system
Site owners
Easier to create exible
content
More exible for
integrations
Developers
Standardized method to
enhance content types
Applicable to all
entities, not just nodes.
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8. Vastly improved user experience
Site owners
More consistent
interfaces
Lower barrier to
Drupal 7 adoption
Developers
Updated jQuery and
jQuery UI
Drupal 6
re-usable widgets
Less time training users
documenting
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9. More database support
Developers
Open database API
ORM layer
Site owners
Support for enterprise-
standard DB’s (e.g.
Oracle, MS SQL)
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10. More scalable than ever
Site owners
Support for enterprise-
sized infrastructures
from normal Drupal
SOFTWARE package
Developers
Support for Varnish,
CDNs, etc
Pluggable storage to
allow noSQL object
caches
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11. Automated code testing
Site owners
Continuous bug testing
to eliminate regressions,
rock-solid bug-free*
software
Developers
Built-in feature testing
framework
More stable core
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12. More powerful installation pro les
Site owners
Greater ability to
implement foundations
that can be re-used for
many different clients
Developers
Easier-to-build
distributions for rapid
development
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13. More on what’s new
http://acquia.com/resources/webinars/drupal-7-top-40-core-
modules-and-what-they-mean-you
http://drupal.org/drupal-7-released
Slides with links will
http://drupal.org/about/new-in-drupal-7 be published at:
http://www.slideshare.net/
AcquiaInc
http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7
http://www.drupalgardens.com/
http://www.unleashedmind.com/en/blog/sun/more-than-50-
drupal-modules-moved-into-drupal-7
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14. Drupal 7 is ready
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15. Drupal 7 is ready
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16. Sites running Drupal 7 today
http://drupalgardens.com
–Running 35k+ Drupal 7 sites and more every day
http://examiner.com
–Very large news site
http://chicagopublicmedia.org/
–Portal for public media in Chicago
Thousands more at
–http://groups.drupal.org/node/113489
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17. 15+ books on Drupal 7
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18. Reasons to upgrade now
Great new features
New development happening on 7
–Module developers will be adding new features to D7 so
your site is getting more out of date as time goes on.
Ride the wave
–There is a lot of focus on upgrades now.
If you’re building new functionality in 6, you will
have to rebuild / upgrade it later.
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19. Upgrading your site
(the condensed version)
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20. Assessment
What modules am I
using in D6?
Which modules have
been moved to core?
What modules have
D7 upgrades?
What about my
custom code?
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21. Update status
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22. Good start, but not enough.
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23. Building an upgrade path
Custom upgrade
paths for modules
Effort to re-write
custom code or port
–Coder module
Some modules don’t
need an upgrade path
Coder module
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24. Next steps
You want to upgrade to D7
Estimate the work required to upgrade
Develop an upgrade plan
Identify the resources you’ll need to complete it
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25. Training @ DrupalCon - March 7th
Upgrading from Drupal 6 to 7
Conduct upgrades of sites, identify
pitfalls and gotchas
Instructor Team:
– Erik Webb - Professional Services, The Inspector
– Jacob Singh - Engineer in Drupal Gardens, Mr. Media
– Joshua Brauer - Client Advisor, Dr. Deployment
Price: $450
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/training/upgrading-drupal-6-7
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26. Training @ DrupalCon - March 7th
Upgrading from Drupal 6 to 7
How to plan for your upgrade
What are the tools to help you succeed
The current state of major modules and the tricks to upgrade
them cleanly
The upgrade procedure - how to minimize downtime and risk
Rebuilding vs upgrading
Buy the training pass when you buy your DrupalCon ticket.
Already registered? You can add training to your ticket purchase.
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