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)?
John Callahan wrote:
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.
- John
John Callahan wrote:
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.)
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?
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.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
- John