[Web4lib] Drupal 7

Tue Apr 19 10:18:45 EDT 2011

Hello.
I agree completely, the community behind Drupal is impressive. 
Yesterday, in the effort of learnning also, I spend time reading 
comments, the forums, only on Drupal's website and I can confirm that 
Drupal is big because of the community.

Be sure anything I received of information privately (if some) I will 
post it here also.

Have a great day.

Jorge Biquez

At 07:44 a.m. 19/04/2011, you wrote:
>To add my bit I would like to second what every said in this thread.
>The Drupal community is great.  As someone who ventured into Drupal 
>with a couple of books I have to say I was able to migrate both our 
>sites the intranet and our external site to Drupal.  The learning 
>curve is steep but help is plentiful.  I am still learning.  I would 
>also like to request that the answers to the questions be shared on 
>the list so that those of us who are new to the game can also 
>benefit from the information.
>
>Thanks
>Maria
>Prince George's County Memorial Library System
>
>On 4/18/2011 9:03 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote:
>>Hello.
>>
>>Thanks to all for your comments. You all are right.
>>
>>Yes, the best from Drupal is the community, the escense of the 
>>Internet, without great people behind, the internet won't exist. 
>>Your comments prove it also.
>>As another example I have been working with FreeBSD since 15 years 
>>ago http://www.freebsd.org/ , the best , for me , UNIX Operating 
>>system around. It is great because of the people around it.
>>
>>Some more questions (thanks in advance)
>>
>>- Can you share the links, (maybe offline so we can not bother the 
>>list members with this of your best sites done with Drupal? I 
>>sometimes guess I am lack of imagination on what can be done. Could 
>>be your or from others.
>>
>>- Can you share the links (also maybe offline) from list like this 
>>one, email list, not forums (sometimes do not have access to web 
>>pages but I can access my email), for the best support. Of course I 
>>know teh best if drupal site for sure but sometimes you find good 
>>help also in other places.
>>
>>- Thinking that you were asked to do the sites you have done for 
>>your organization, starting from zero AND using Drupal again. What 
>>would you do different from what have you done? (in planning, in 
>>implementation, in times). What do you consider errors to avoid?
>>
>>Thanks again for all your time.
>>
>>Take care all.
>>
>>Jorge Biquez
>>
>>
>>At 12:11 p.m. 18/04/2011, Cary Gordon wrote:
>>>Of the many reasons for using Drupal over its 1,000+ competitors, the
>>>best one is the community. No product of any kind, in my experience,
>>>is as well supported by its community as Drupal.
>>>
>>>In the six years that I have worked with Drupal in the library
>>>community, I have seen it go from being regarded as an interesting
>>>option that was capable hard to get started with to becoming one of
>>>the outstanding tools for libraries, with an active community on
>>>groups.drupal.org, many library-specific modules and solutions,
>>>hundreds of active library websites, as well as this well-used list.
>>>With hundreds of folks in the #drupal-support and #drupal IRC
>>>channels, questions have a very quick turnaround.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Cary
>>>
>>>On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Jorge Biquez <jbiquez at icsmx.com> wrote:
>>> > Hello.
>>> >
>>> > I have been working with D6 and studying the differences on D7. 
>>> One question
>>> > came to my mind and I hope it does not sound too stupid....
>>> >
>>> > What are the reasons , with all other options around, that you decide to
>>> > continue working with Drupal?
>>> >
>>> > Yes, I know we all know could have other solutions working from previous
>>> > versions. NO, the question is more profound. What do you see or found in
>>> > Drupal that make you decide continue working with it?
>>> >
>>> > The question is jut in the effort of learning.
>>> >
>>> > For example. A friend told me. Why are you still with Drupal if there are
>>> > other solutions like concrete5 for example? (
>>> > <http://www.concrete5.org/>http://www.concrete5.org )
>>> >
>>> > What are your reasons?
>>> >
>>> > I'd love to hear your comments.
>>> >
>>> > Take care all.
>>> >
>>> > Jorge Biquez
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > At 11:28 a.m. 08/03/2011, you wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I did a basic analysis of a couple of D6 sites I work on to 
>>> get a sense of
>>> >> the status of modules we're currently using on the two sites and the
>>> >> availability of those modules (or functional replacements) in D7.
>>>While a
>>> >> good portion of the D6 modules have D7 versions that are GA 
>>> release, alpha,
>>> >> beta, or dev releases and in some cases there is either equivalent
>>> >> functionality in another D7 module or in the D7 core, there 
>>> are still quite
>>> >> a few modules for which there is not an existing migration path.
>>>One of the
>>> >> major roadblocks (for us) is the lack of a D7 version of the 
>>> back_reference
>>> >> and conditional_fields modules.
>>> >>
>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>> >> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
>>> >> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Cary Gordon
>>> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 12:26 AM
>>> >> To: Maida Scott
>>> >> Cc: Web4lib at webjunction.org
>>> >> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Drupal 7
>>> >>
>>> >> We have started to build sites in Drupal 7. Our test is whether we
>>> >> believe that the modules required by the site will be available by the
>>> >> time the site is scheduled to go live. On sites with a six month to
>>> >> launch horizon, we feel that most of the "big" pieces will be in place
>>> >> and we can begin development with dev modules. With a 60 day timeline,
>>> >> we will stick to D6 unless every module we need is ready for
>>> >> production now, or we can launch without full functionality.
>>> >>
>>> >> Exceptions include, on the go side, clients with the resources to take
>>> >> a module over the hump, if needed, and on the no-go side, sites that
>>> >> require i18n.
>>> >>
>>> >> Cary
>>> >>
>>> >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Maida Scott
>>> >> <Maida.Scott at pueblolibrary.org> wrote:
>>> >> > Since our redesign efforts fell in line with the lastest release of
>>> >> > Drupal, I made the decision to go ahead with Drupal 7, to avoid the
>>> >> > headache of upgrading later.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Is anyone else out there using/upgrading to Drupal 7?
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Maida
>>> >> > ________________________________
>>> >> > Maida Carpio Scott
>>> >> > Web Administrator
>>> >> > Pueblo City-County Library District
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
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>>> >>
>>> >>
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