Drupal talk

Look around at drupal commons

Drupal is free but creates a lot of work for the admins and users (free kittens model)

pre-built distributions (standard drupal with specialized collection of modules and features) for specific uses:

conference organizing (useCOD.com)

best practices:
drupal paths become an issue if it's not installed in the root

working with development and production servers

sequelPro is a good mac tool for importing/exporting the db

O'Reilly book: Using Drupal

super brief overview:
Templates (css) control the page layout, which contains blocks (php code tools/widgets/programs) which can be selected on a per-page basis.

nctech4good meetup 3rd wednesday at triangle united way bulding (check the meetup for current location)

svy.mk/nct4g-eval11 is the survey!