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