On Nov 10, 2007 9:06 PM, Liza Sabater <<a href="mailto:blogdiva@culturekitchen.com">blogdiva@culturekitchen.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Something I took out of my article, I'm going to share here : The way you<br>speak about Drupal is a fantastic way to sell it to other developers but it<br>does nothing to a lot of people looking for a "blog platform on steroids".
<br>And by blog, remember, I am not referring to the technical word but to the<br>mythical "The Blog" that people relate to as the key to web 2.0 success.<br></blockquote><div> <br>Drupal is different things to different people. It is a CMF (Content Managment
<br>Framework), a project, and a community, way before it being "just a blog".<br><br>One of the things I suggested on the marketing group is developing<br>several "30 second elevator pitches" each for a specific use/audience.
<br><br>I will not repeat it here. It can be found at<br><a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/6943#comment-20457">http://groups.drupal.org/node/6943#comment-20457</a><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I honestly believe a developers version of Drupal should be distributed.<br>This would be your dream Drupal and it hopefully will create the space for<br>creating distributions that actually speak to "mere mortals", aka "the
<br>market".<br></blockquote><div> <br>The developer version is, well, Drupal itself. The API is there, and one can<br>write all the modules they can eat.<br><br>Install profiles address the rest. If one wants a blogging install profile, then
<br>it is fairly straightforward to do one. Perhaps it is done already even.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a><br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>
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