Drupal

See http://2007.oscms-summit.org/ and http://drupal.org/node/117668.

The next DrupalCon will be at the Open Source CMS Summit hosted by Yahoo!. This will take place on March 22 and 23, 2007 at Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, CA.

Since http://morris.com is part of the Yahoo! Newspaper Consortium, I am planning to go. We're also going to do a meetup for newspaper folks. See http://2007.oscms-summit.org/node/369.

Register at oscms-summit if you plan to go.

Hi All,

I am a total newbie to Drupal and CMS's, but I am very much comfortable in PHP programming. I am trying
to build a community site. I need advise on how to go about building such a site.

I want to know, how to use DRUPAL with other CMS's like PHPizabi and Dolphin. I felt, both PHPizabi and Dolphin are very good community site. What modules do I need to use and how can I customize the Drupal configuration with any one of two CMS's? Please let me know, how to integrate the community sites with Drupal. Please suggest your advises.

Check out my rough notes on Drupal, Contec and mobile and my video of most of the January 2007 introductions. A fab night (I believe we had over 30 people!), wish I could have stayed for the pub!

Last saturday Alan and I went down to the BarCamp South East in Waterford. We did a presentation of Drupal, Alan went through the benefits of Drupal for a website, and I showed how to install Drupal 5 in couple of minutes.

I've made test installations of Drupal before and, frankly, found its philosophies and implementation confusing, unfriendly and unnecessarily techy (concepts not explained in English). The prospect of editing themes and tinkering to achieve custom results seemed daunting.

Now I see this group, I'd like to ask your views on using Drupal to run an online news(paper) for journalism school students. That is, something with which undergrads can be introduced to and would practice the fundamentals of online journalism, from story publishing to blogging.

Currently, when you use a URL path alias to an existing node, and later decide to change the URL alias, the old path 'breaks' - so, if you have an older page that has inbound links from, say, Google search or some web directory, people will get a 404 error - not good for SEO or building traffic, in my experience.