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Drupal
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| Cost and Development Philosophy | Free, open source. |
| Local Installation or Hosted Solution | Local |
| Description | “Drupal is open source software maintained and developed by a community of 630,000+ users and developers… Drupal project’s principles encourage modularity, standards, collaboration, ease-of-use, and more.” (source) |
| Use on SpokenWeb Project | We plan to use Drupal in the next phase on the SpokenWeb project as one of several CMS’ that we will run in parallel in order to determine the relative advantages and disadvantages of each as a spoken word and poetry platform. |
| Evaluation | So far, we have not used Drupal on the SpokenWeb project. For a good review of Drupal 7, see:
Review: Drupal 7 Simplifies Web Content Management By Jim Rapoza, InformationWeek February 19, 2011 http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/reviews/229218676
Open source wars: WordPress vs Drupal vs Joomla Jul 25 by JD Rucker http://www.techi.com/2011/07/open–source–wars–wordpress–vs–drupal–vs–joomla/ |
| Projects | The University of Arizona Poetry Center A cleanly designed site the features good browsing (e.g. via an image browser and tag cloud) as well as embedded audio and playlists. See also: |
| Future Directions | Development for Drupal 8 has been underway since March 2011 (source). One of the main developments will be multi-lingual support (source). |
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