What's Drupal?
Drupal is open source social publishing software that empowers individuals, teams, and communities to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including community web portals, corporate web sites, social networking sites, personal web sites or blogs, and much more.
Drupal is ready to go from the moment you download it. The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as content management, blogs, wiki collaborative authoring, tagging, picture galleries and much more.
Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL (“General Public License”) and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. Drupal is free to download and use.
Today, Drupal powers sites including the homepages of Warner Brothers Records, The New York Observer, Fast Company, Popular Science, and Amnesty International and project sites by SonyBMG, Forbes, Harvard University, and more. Drupal can be used to create personal weblogs (Tim Berners-Lee), deliver podcasts (TWIT.tv), connect online communities (SpreadFireFox.com), form artist collectives (Terminus 1525) or inform the masses (The Onion).
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Download Drupal at Drupal.org
Drupal.org
Drupal.org is the home of the Drupal open source community, where you will find Drupal downloads, discussion forums, handbooks, announcements and more. Most importantly, its where individuals can actively participate in the Drupal project - contribute patches, write documentation, help with support, submit modules, and more. More than 240,000 people have created accounts at Drupal.org to participate in the community. If you are interested in building a Drupal website, create an account and join the Drupal community.
Click here to visit Drupal.org.
The Drupal Association
The Drupal Association is a not-for-profit association, registered in Belgium. Its purpose is to provide support to the Drupal project and promote Drupal.
The Drupal Association leaves the planning or development of the Drupal open source project in the very capable hands of the global Drupal community itself. The Drupal Association focuses on other important things like:
Acquiring and managing the Drupal.org server infrastructure.
Raising money to promote Drupal
Organizing and/or sponsor Drupal events, and represent the Drupal project at events.
Engaging in partnerships with other organizations.
Supporting Drupal development by awarding grants or paying wages.
Write and publishing press releases and promotional materials.
Click here to visit the Drupal Association.
Where Acquia Fits In
Acquia provides commercially supported Drupal distributions, technical support, and value-added network services for Drupal. However, the Drupal project, Drupal.org, and the Drupal Association pre-date and function independently from Acquia. Acquia functions as a member of the community to advance the Drupal technology and promote Drupal adoption. We’re one drop in the Drupal ocean.
Drupal Association General Assembly and Board Members at Acquia are:
Dries Buytaert (President and Board Member)
Kieran Lal (Board Member)
Robert Douglass (General Assembly Member)
