[support] Drupal for University use

[Zohar Stolar]

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.
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> - Jhn
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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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