Drupal is the idea platform for communities:
- there is no licence fee to pay
- the community support is very strong
- the project has a promising future
- a lot of web 2.0 can be deployed very quickly and cheaply
- its modular structure, along with recipies and installation profiles together offer a huge range of functionalities
- it is written in a widely used language, php
Drupal and me
- 2006
- Working for Shelter Centre I was researching content management systems. Drupal came to our attention as our research on Plone indicated high implementation and maintenance costs
- I built a Drupal theme for Shelter Centre
- 2007
- I wrote a Request for Proposal for a CMS in Drupal, including suggestions on a Drupal architecture and modules which could be used.
- Made my own site. This took a month, but most of that time was spent on content!
- 2008
- Attended DrupalCon Boston 2008
- Built first module, http_headers
- First paid website built
- Started work on mutual credit module
- made autocategorise module
- Completed rich site for World Student Christian Federation General Assembly
- 2009
- Spent most of the year setting up Community Forge sites
- Also built site for COHRED
- 2010
- maintaining and improving the mass hosting of Community Forge
- Vversion 2.0 of mutual credit module, which was chosen for Timebanks USA
