Allie Micka of Advantage Labs is presenting "Why Drupal?"
Drupal has many millions of dollars of development money involved. Lots of developer mass.
Drupal gives developer the advantage to be able to hand off projects to the next developer. It also makes maintenance easier for you.
Current issues being addressed in Drupal:
- Internationalization
- OpenID integration
- handling media
- scalability
- permissions
- usability studies and improvement
Drupal is empowering:
Experienced administrators can build applications without programming knowledge.
Gain a rich foundation to start from.
Making it easier for client to edit information:
Permissions help you lock down the interface
WYSIWYG is possible if you need it
As users become more proficient you can upgrade them
Developer, developers, developer
Lots of preexisting functionality
Extend functionality, don't create it
Thousands of really smart people will help you
Advantage Labs likes to use install profiles.
