Drupal

Drupal Camp Afternoon Session
· Bootstrapping your site
· http://defectivebydesign.org - bootstrapped live
· Expectation setting. Boris’ comment about 4 month – clients have time to do the tasks they have to do that they had no idea
· Defective by design – get into public’s mind that DRM is being pushed on us, it is wrong, we can push back, to get press, to sign up members and to convert members to Free Software Foundation
· F2F work with online coordination and some online interation
· Started with 24 people and one month later there are 5000. In the last week signed up 1500. Did a call in day against the RIAA, direct calls to executives, 200 people logged their call, was dug, slashdotted right away. Crossposted within 3-4 hours. Digg suppressed the story after it got on the front page and banned Henri Poole for a violation but they did not specify the violation.

Drupal Camp

· Is a CMS, can create community, but can be used for other things. Do whatever you want if you have the resources. Developer/programming skills. Out of the box is ok to have forums, blogs, users on the system, public or password protected.
· Theme layer – you can make it look like anything you want. Rain City does a lot of different kinds of looks and layouts using Drupal.
· Not terribly easy to learn, but all documented on how to create a theme.
· Event registration – there is an event module. Plug in additional functionality. Section on Drupal site called projects or downloads. Can add forums- you enable module.

This group is an attempt to get a serious discussion started around database scalability with Drupal sites.

Right now, Drupal mostly relies on direct connections with mysql to generate Web pages. There is an internal caching mechanism which can help alleviate load, but which introduces some problems of its own (like the user login problem, where users have to reload a page after logging into the system). Typically, mysql optimizations and hardware concerns become a primary area of focus after Drupal has reached its caching limits. While there are not that many massively trafficed Drupal sites around (massive means greater than 100k hits an hour), they are coming, and it would be great to have some defined paths people could follow to build up their sites.

New modules are up. Lots of changes to cre. Including new table name and new table format. It is setup now to be able to recommend any content(user, comments, developer defined, nodes).

And I would also like to pose a question for discussion....

When recommending some piece of content (whether a node, comment, user etc...) does the alogrithm only recommend based on content that is the same type? so when recommending a node, only use similarity matrix referencing content that is both the same type. Thats not making much sense typing it out but here is an example.

Johny is a user. The site is recommending both nodes and users. The block for 'Johny's recommended users' should be populated based only similarities between user and user votes or similarities between BOTH user to user and user to node. Should this be up to user level module (node_recommendation)?

Here are two finished graph visualization what represents two large community sites:

• www.hup.hu
• 2006.planet-soc.com

These are the newest results of my work.

There is some interesting resource about issue similar to lampuniversity

Check it at the funnymonkey.com:
Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle -- the components of an online learning environment

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Hi, I recently switched from phpbb to drupal. (http://drupal.org/node/44368)

Here is my configuration

• web server: Dual Xeon 3.0Ghz (32bit), 2G RAM, SATA HDD
• db server: same as web server (physically different server)
• software: apache 1.3.34, php 5.1.2, mysql 5.0.18
• total number of nodes: 70,000+
• total number of comments: 330,000+
• total number of users: 25,000+
• Usually there are 150+ anonymous users and 50+ registered users (by checking Who's online block)
• Modules: most core modules (4.7) except archive, book, drupal, legacy, ping with contributed modules (adsense, codefilter, favorite_nodes, google_analytics, logintobaggan, nmoderation, subscription, taxomony_access, urlfilter, votingapi, comment_upload, tagadelic)

Some fresh news from Michael Penney about Drupal and Moodle integration for the Humboldt State University.
It is really interesting...

Michael Penney wrote at the Moodle Forum:

DlPortal: Drupal/Moodle distance education portal.

DlPortal

Right now there is just a powerpoint, the interesting stuff about integration and features added starts about slide 20. We'll have demo accounts set up pretty soon, and will also publish the documentation from the process in the next few weeks.

Anybody has some success story about integration of Moodle and Drupal?

There is module for drupal and moodle for one sign-in, but maybe somebody went further?

Please comment it.