Hi Anne, At the Indianapolis Museum of Art, we have used Drupal extensively for almost three years now. We currently run our main website ( www.imamuseum.org) on a Drupal framework and have developed many smaller exhibition micro-sites as standalone Drupal installs.
In addition we have done a ton of development and extension of Drupal to do somethings which are pretty out of the ordinary for the run-of-the-mill content management system. Some Examples: * Our Dashboard tool (an open-source statistics tool for museums) which features a bit of a different user-interface layout and about 40 authors from the museum. * We built a custom project management tool called Athena, which we've used in-house for about 18 months now. This is integrated with our collection management system, digital asset management tools, and does all the typical file, task, project blogging, etc... * ArtBabble.org is an HD streaming video website with a lot of back-end customizations built all on top of Drupal. It also happens to run entirely in the cloud using Amazon's Web Services tool. The Drupal community has been great, and there are a lot of benefits for a choice in this direction. Of course, there is no perfect tool... and each of these sites was a lot of work, but Drupal really worked for us, and not against us! We'd love to answer any more questions either online or in person if you're interested. Sincerely, Rob Stein Chief Information Officer Indianapolis Museum of Art On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Anne Botman <ABotman at mus-nature.ca> wrote: > Hello, > > Who is using Drupal as their CMS? > > We are considering it and I would appreciate talking to folks with > practical > experience and how they find it. In particular, I would love to know if > anyone uses it to produce bilingual sites and if there are any known issues > or things to watch out for? > > Thanks for any advice! > > Cheers, > > Anne > > __________________________ > Anne Botman > Head, Web Services / Chef, Services Web > Canadian Museum of Nature / Mus?e canadien de la nature > > Tel: 613.566.4243 > Email: abotman at mus-nature.ca > Web: http://nature.ca > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ >
