[dundee] Meeting Thursday 3rd of May - Drupal by Robert Carr

[Stuart 'NxFifteen' Anderson]

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Good evening everyone,

I hope you have all been having a productive week. A special shout out to 
Gavin and Arron who both gave talks at BSideLondon. From all the reports I 
have been hearing it was a tremendous success, but I look forward to hearing 
from both of your first hand!

We're only another week away from the next meeting, but before I tell you all 
about it let me remind everyone of the Saturday coffee mornings. They are held 
at the Burgh Coffee House on Castle Street usually starting from 09:30 and 
running till ... well whenever everyone leaves. Its a very informal gather 
where we `talk geek` over a few coffees. So if you've never been to a meeting 
before its a great time to come along and meet some of us.

P.S. If you get there before 11:00 The Burgh are still offering a free refill!

Our next society talk will be held next Thursday in the Burgh Coffee House on 
Castle Street. We have an exciting talk lined up on Drupal being given by a 
new speaker. Robert Carr will be talking us through the Drupal content 
management system written in PHP. The full abstract is bellow, _but_ please 
not the slightly later start. Instead of our usual 18:30 (6:00pm) starting 
time our next meeting is scheduled for 19:00 (7:00pm)

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Drupal is an open-source content management system written in PHP and  
distributed under the GPL. It is used in around 2% of all websites  
worldwide, and rapidly gaining hold in the education and enterprise  
sectors.

Although Drupal offers a sophisticated API and shell interface for  
developers, no programming skills are required for basic installation  
and administration. Drupal core facilitates the basic functions common  
to most CMSs (user management, menu administration etc), and there are  
almost 10,000 free community-contributed add-ons (themes and modules)  
to add new features or customize behaviour and appearance. There are  
also distributions that provide pre-configured, out-of-the-box  
solutions.

Drupal runs on any platform that is capable of running PHP (Apache,  
Nginx, IIS etc) and a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB etc) to  
store content and settings.

The talk will cover the basics of how Drupal works, the benefits of  
using Drupal, the community behind it and how to find out more.

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As always, if you have been, thanks for reading
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