Drupal is an open source content management platform and web application framework that powers millions of websites. It allows users to organize, edit, and publish content from a central interface. Drupal is highly flexible and can be used to build many types of websites and applications. It has a large community of users and is used by many large organizations like the White House, Harvard, and Greenpeace. The presentation provides an overview of what Drupal is, how to use it, examples of companies that use it, and its future potential as a platform for new types of online experiences and integration of third party applications.

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INTRODUCING DRUPAL
THE MOST ADVANCED OPEN SOURCE
CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND WEB
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
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WHAT IS DRUPAL?

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WHAT IS DRUPAL?
Personally...
"Drupal is... knowing that I have invested time and money in
a web platform which can grow and evolve with my
business, no matter what opportunities and challenges the
future may bring"
"Drupal ... is the Swiss Army Knife of website development".

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WHAT IS DRUPAL?
Officially...
Drupal is an open source content management platform
powering millions of websites and applications.
It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse
community of people around the world.
Motto: Come for the software, stay for the community.
Official Websites: |www.drupal.org www.drupal.com

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WHAT IS DRUPAL?
Further...
A content management system (CMS) and a web application
development framework.
So, what is a CMS?
A piece of software used to organize, update and present
websites. A type of online web application.

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WHAT IS A CMS?
A computer program that allows for the publishing, editing
and modifying of content as well as maintenance from a
central interface.
Are often used to run websites containing blogs, news,
shopping, etc. Many corporate and marketing websites use
CMSs.
typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding and running
websites manually.

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BUT DRUPAL IS MUCH MORE THAN A
CMS...
It is a Web Experience Management system:
1. Content Management
2. Community Management
3. Commerce Management
4. Much more...
Drupal is designed to make it easy for non-technical users to
add, edit and manage different varieties of websites or web
applications.

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DRUPAL AS AN APPLICATION
FRAMEWORK...
A piece of software with which you can build other
application software. Can be what you want it to be.
As a result, Drupal is usually described as...
Powerful, flexible
Extensible, reliable, configurable
Scalable, stable and secure

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AWARDS...
Drupal has been winning, at least one, awards every year
since 2006
2014
CMS Critic Critics’ Choice: Best Enterprise PHP CMS
CMS Critic Peoples’ Choice: Best Enterprise PHP CMS
Weblizar: Top 10 PHP CMS
2013
Critic's Choice Award 2013: Best Free CMS
2012
Infoworld Bossie Awards 2012: The best open source
applications

10. AWARDS (CONTINUES)...

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2011
Infoworld Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source
applications
2010
Infoworld Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source
applications
Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: Open
Source CMS Hall of Fame (2nd place)
2009
Webware 100
Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: Best PHP
Open Source Content Management System (1st place)
Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: Open
Source CMS Hall of Fame

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AWARDS (CONTINUES)...
2008
Webware 100
Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: Best
Overall Open Source CMS (1st place)
Best PHP Open Source Content Management System
(1st place)

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AWARDS (CONTINUES)...
2007
Webware 100
Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: Best
Overall Open Source CMS (1st place)
Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: Best PHP
Open Source Content Management System (1st place)
Packt Publishing Best Open Source Social Networking
Content Management System (2nd place tie)
2006
Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards: Best
Overall Open Source CMS (2nd place)
Source: https://www.drupal.org/about/awards

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HISTORY: SO WHERE DID DRUPAL
COME FROM?
Dries Buytaert 2000, a student of the University of Antwerp,
Belgium at that time.
Built a web blog to communicate with his friends.
After graduation he release the code as open source.
Fast-forward to today, Drupal is maintained by one of the
largest open source community in the world.

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DRUPAL IN PERSPECTIVE
To date Drupal has...
...8 core versions and the core code base is updated at least
once every month.
As a result your website will always be up to date in terms of
security and web standards.

16. To date Drupal has...
...over 32, 000 extension modules, over 2, 000 themes and
close to 1000 distributions.
These represents various functionality with which you can
create almost any type of website or web application you
can imagine.
Most likely, a module exists for your every need.

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To date Drupal has...
...over 1.2 Million people in 228 countries (including Nigeria)
speaking 181 languages power Drupal.
2% of websites in the entire Internet runs on Drupal.
6% of the top 1 million websites runs on Drupal.
9% of the top 100k websites runs on Drupal.
As a result Drupal is well tested, robust and very secure.

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WHO IS USING DRUPAL?

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DRUPAL AS A PUBLISHING
PLATFORM
NBC: http://www.nbc.com

21. Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com

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The Economist: http://www.economist.com

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DRUPAL IN GOVERNMENT
Whitehouse.gov

24. http://www.australia.gov.au

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Offical French Govt Portal: http://www.gouvernement.fr

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French Senate: http://www.publicsenat.fr/

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DRUPAL IN TOP UNIVERSITIES
Harvard: http://www.harvard.edu

28. Stanford: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu

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Oxford: http://www.ox.ac.uk

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DRUPAL IN THE ENTERTAINMENT
INDUSTRY
Pink: http://www.pinkspage.com

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32. Michael Jackson: http://www.michaeljackson.com

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Warner Bros: http://www.warnerbros.com

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Grammy Awards: https://www.grammy.com

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WWE: http://www.wwe.com

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Lady Gaga: http://www.ladygaga.com

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DRUPAL IN NON-PROFITS
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org.uk

38. GreenPeace: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk

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United Nations: http://www.un.org/en/index.html

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Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org

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World Economic Forum: http://www.weforum.org

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Red Cross: http://www.redcrossblood.org

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Rotary International: https://www.rotary.org

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Doctors Without Borders:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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DRUPAL IN BIG ENTERPRISE
(FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES)
Nokia: http://www.nokia.com

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47. Pinterest: https://business.pinterest.com/en

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Twitter: https://dev.twitter.com

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Tesla: http://www.teslamotors.com

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DRUPAL IN NIGERIA
MTN: http://www.mtnonline.com

51. Edo State Government: http://webportal.edostate.gov.ng

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Udenu Local Government: http://udenu.en.gov.ng

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Deluxe Online Shopping : http://deluxe.com.ng

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Edusko (Online Schools Info System): http://edusko.com

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ShippingPosition Online: http://shippingposition.com.ng

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THE FUTURE
History of the web...
1990: The Static Web
1995: The Dynamic Web
2005: The Assembled Web
2015: ???

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THE FUTURE?
The Experience Web
The Internet of Things
The Rise of Mobile
Drupal as a hub for third-party aggregations...
... Headless Drupal
Drupal is moving beyond the dynamic and Assembled Web
and heading towards the Experience Web

58. THE FUTURE...
Multiple Channel Integration potentials: RESTful API,
Semantic web, 100s/1000s of 3rd party integrations

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THE FUTURE IS NOW: DRUPAL 8 IS
OUT!

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THE FUTURE IS NOW: DRUPAL 8 IS
OUT!
The Latest version of Drupal: Drupal 8
The long awaited stable version of Drupal 8 (Drupal 8.0) was
released yesterday!
Join us at the end of this event tomorrow when we join the
rest of the world to celebrate the release of Drupal 8!

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IN CLOSING...
"Drupal is radically changing online spaces."
"Is your space one of them?"

63. "Drupal is the framework with which I launch my mind in the
web."
THANK YOU!

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