[support] Drupal for University use

[John Callahan]

I need to cite a few sources and make a few edits but yes, I will make 
it available soon.

- John



Zohar Stolar wrote:
> Is the presentation available over the web (downloading/viewing)?
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> John Callahan wrote:
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>> Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information about 
>> Drupal for university use.  My presentation last Friday was very well 
>> received and, from my estimation, Drupal may be in the lead compared to 
>> other open source CMS solutions.  There are even a few groups using 
>> SharePoint that are now asking questions about Drupal possibilities.  
>> That is definitely a good sign!  Thanks again for your help.
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>> - John
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>> John Callahan wrote:
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>>> The University I work for is looking at various CMS solutions for 
>>> several web needs, such as their primary websites, for 
>>> colleges/department/research centers, for social networks, for student 
>>> organizations, maybe even for individual student web sites.  The idea is 
>>> for the central IT group to host our primary sites and sites for smaller 
>>> groups without IT experience... and to support others on campus who want 
>>> to run their own servers/sites/databases.   I have put together a few 
>>> smaller Drupal 5 sites and have enjoyed my experience so far.  So, I 
>>> making a presentation to our Web CMS committee this Friday.   (I believe 
>>> they're also looking at Joomla, Plone, and a few commercial options; and 
>>> we are testing Sakai for course management.)
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>>> I'm putting together the basics (basic architecture and IT requirements, 
>>> pros and cons of Drupal, list of major Drupal web sites particularly 
>>> academic sites) but I'd like to know if anyone else has done the same. 
>>> What kind of feedback did you get?   Are there are pertinent points not 
>>> obvious to the beginning Drupal user (such as myself) that may be worth 
>>> mentioning? 
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>>> Scalability is also an issue.  I don't know the traffic statistics but 
>>> there will be a wide range of applications and volume; from our basic 
>>> informational pages to social networks run by faculty/staff to small 
>>> research groups.   I've read on a few sites that Drupal does not scale 
>>> well to high traffic sites, such as 15M+ hits/month or so.  However, 
>>> those references are a bit out-dated and I know The Onion, MTV UK, and 
>>> others receive much higher traffic than we would.
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>>> Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks!
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>>> - John
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