Migration IN Drupal / Migrating to Drupal

Reasons for migration in Drupal needs attention and discussion on when its the right time to plan it and what to watch while performing migration.

Here we have planned a detailed & focused discussion on few KEY features of Drupal, presentation and discussion will revolve around the best practices, recommended versions and other aspects based on specific applications.

• Version control
• Blogging: Blogger API support
• Aggregator
• Platform: Apache or IIS, Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X support

• Database independence

• Administration and analysis: Analysis, Tracking and Statistics

• Web based administration
• Community features
• Discussion forums
• Caching
  In sequence, please step up and share your expertise or refer to any recent launch of Drupal relevant to above topic.

We have planned a demo of Drupal projects utilizing few of the above features:

Kieran (Product Manager, Acquia) will join us to demonstrate a recent migration of Examiner.com on Drupal 7, the site has gone live in beta few days back.

He plans to share the details about why Examiner.com moved directly to Drupal 7 and the specific details of the migration and points to ponder. www.examiner.com is amongst the top few sites in Drupal 7.

www.uttr.net
(This has a simple and brilliant web management of the audio profiles created on the Audio Job Interview iPhone app, by the way this iphone app was in top 5 apps of business category in Appstore and the traction to this audio profile concept is catching up faster than expected)

Look forward to catch up with everyone to bid adieu to winters and step in Drupal filled spring :)

Cheers!
Vishal

on behalf of Silicon Valley Drupal UG. http://www.meetup.com/DrupalGroup/
Co sponsored by: Halosys and UCSC Extension, Santa Clara
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