Building Community Sites - Christopher Nielsen, Drupal to Joomla - Jon Neubauer

I will discuss topics ranging from the questions beginners should ask when developing a community site with Joomla CMS to exploration of some advance features we built for the Puget Sound Partnership's mypugetsound.net community portal. This was a 3 year government support contract with the State of Washington which had many interesting process challenges and rich feature integrations.==============As more and more organizations turn to Open Source technologies to power their online presence, one struggle that seems to recur is finding the balance between capability and usability in a CMS. With the Joomla! CMS situated as a powerful and robust platform for building an online presence, yet still maintaining a great level of usability and efficiency in day to day operations, many organizations are exploring their options when it comes to migrating to Joomla! to make life easier.During this session we'll take a look at our experience in moving several applications from Drupal to Joomla!, and a process that we've built, and documented for automating the transition for any organization.