DrupalCon San Francisco: Welcome to Drupal

The opening session of DrupalCon San Francisco was "Welcome to Drupal(con)."  This session presented by a panel from Acquia served to introduce newcomers to Drupal and set the foundation for the rest of the conference.

Topics included:

• Common Drupal terms and lingo
• The Drupal community, appearing at http://groups.drupal.org, IRC, and many businesses built around Drupal
• Overview of the Drupal architecture
• Sharing and Publishing strengths
• Ecommerce capabilities
• SEO is enhanced by features in core and additional tools in contributed modules
• Multilingual capabilities. Not easy to solve completely, but all the tools and techniques are available.
• How to get started with drupal: Drupal Gardens, Acquia Drupal, Acquia stack installer
• About Acquia hosting and other Drupal-optimized hosting
• Drupal 7

-- David Lanier
Director of Web Development