1. Drupal
Conquering The WhiteHouse(.gov)
An Open Source Success Story
Ignite Ames 2010
Michael Hofmockel
http://michaelhofmockel.com - drupal@michaelhofmockel.com - @hofmockel on Twitter
DrupCorn - http://groups.drupal.org/iowa

2. Small Mature Drupal firm
building on the shoulders of Giants

3. Closed Source
If you business is modeled around a few great ideas,
protecting your IP is very important.
Open Source
Labor and Expertise business model.
Shared IP so everyone benefits
(even those who don’t share)
Good economically for the client and developer.

4. EOP asked for Drupal!

5. Drupal is ready for the enterprise
scalable, mature, feature rich and secure

6. Conquering WhiteHouse.gov is Not all about Drupal
knowledge on Scaling everything:
Process
Hardware
Replication
CDN
Performance
Teams and Management

7. What is Drupal?
Content Managemet System Application Framework
http://drupal.org/getting-started/before/overview
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/choosing-the-right-cms-platform-for-your-website-from-an-seo-perspective

8. Why choose Drupal?
1. Development speed.
2. Cost.
3. Scalability.
4. Community.
5. Modularity.
6. Extensibility.
7. Security.
8. Currency.
9. Standardization.
10. Reusability.
11. Search Engine Optimization.
http://www.mediacurrent.com/files/mediacurrent-customer-guide.pdf

9. Why choose Drupal?
1. Development speed.
2. Cost.
3. Scalability.
4. Community.
5. Modularity.
6. Extensibility.
7. Security.
8. Currency.
9. Standardization.
10. Reusability.
11. Search Engine Optimization.
http://www.mediacurrent.com/files/mediacurrent-customer-guide.pdf

10. Advanced Features that where missing on legacy system:
faceted search
microsites with organic groups
consistent image handling
508 complient - accessibility - graceful degradation
server provisioning
virtual environment
environmental sync

11. Open Source | Open Access | Open Mind

14. Drupal Culture
sharing and collaboration
Make time to collaborate.
If you don’t schedule it, it is not going to happen.
passion and believing

15. A culture of self-organizing
... where everyone is
… a respected leader
…and a dedicated follower

16. A culture of innovation
Culture of execution
“Talk is silver, code is gold”

17. Drupal core was
downloaded 230,000
times in March 2010
There are more than 6,700
contributed projects
(up from 5,000 a year ago)

20. DrupalCorn
http://groups.drupal.org/iowa
Ames, Iowa