How do we become `Drupal Malaysia' // C.R.E.A.M.S of the crop

By Muslim guy on 23 Mar 2006 at 13:15 UTC

XOOPS has its own official community and service provider in Malaysia.

http://www.xoopsmalaysia.org/

Since we are web builders who have used Drupal for many clients, and seeing how Xoops has its own official national rep for fellow countrymen, we might consider to apply for `Drupal Malaysia'.

Maybe
http://drupalmalaysia.org

The commercial gain is not a big priority for us. Our main objectives are to help building better websites and we even have our own acronyms that we think about Drupal.

C.R.E.A.M.S

- Comunications
- Community
- Company

- Relationship

- Entertainment
- Events

- Activism
- Articles
- Advertising
- Administration
- Applications

- Management of all the above

- System

In in a nutshell, Drupal is CREAMS of the crop amongst CMS :)

Comments

are interested to develop

dynn commented 23 March 2006 at 13:53

are interested to develop website for drupalmalaysia???
if you interested we can JV.

Insya Allah

Muslim guy commented 23 March 2006 at 13:56

Sepeck:
But do we have to pay license or GPL?

*Looking forward to this sort of activities :)

Dries - we like to be Drupal Malaysia

Muslim guy commented 23 March 2006 at 14:01

Dries:
how do people or companies wanting to become the official Drupal provider / developer / service of particular country / language

Dries is on holiday (getting married and not checking Drupal.org) for a few weeks. The license is GPL for the code and Creative Commons for the handbook. I personally do not know how the international affiliation sites are handled. You might ask on the Infrastructure list if someone who does know doesn't see this thread.

-Steven Peck
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-Steven Peck
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agentrickard

he/him

English

Georgia (US)

commented 23 March 2006 at 16:12

Not to be snide, but "creams" has some lewd implications in American English.

Maybe not the best acronym.

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Search first, ask good questions later.

That's ok, Malaysians speak

Muslim guy commented 24 March 2006 at 03:48

That's ok, Malaysians speak British English (or Queen's).

Even then, many British slangs are not known among non-English (I mean native English)

Pretty much summing up what Drupal is capable of -

- Creative content
- Comics!

- Education

- E-Commerce!

- Magazine

- Management

So clients eother it is a non-profit organization, or a business company wanting a website, we no longer (or reluctant) to do them HTML sites, the static type where a single error has to be edited by webmasters.

Mention CMS and most of our clients have no idea. The more creative way of describing Drupal to clients is to present its
capabilities from their point of view and they will see that it helps to fulfill their needs, either an online magazine, ecommerce,
or organizational and corporate sites.

Thankx Sepeck.

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:-)

agentrickard

he/him

English

Georgia (US)

commented 24 March 2006 at 22:40

"Cream of the crop" works just fine. :-)

Good luck!

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Search first, ask good questions later.

More applications for Drupal

Muslim guy commented 26 March 2006 at 07:31

- Audio/Video

- Clubs [paid or free membership :)]

- Customer Relationship Mgmt
http://drupal.org/node/55902

- CivicCRM -------> inspired us to build UMMAH website

- Cooperatives (wikis? og?)

- Evaluations - open to public to comment or fill in webforms or surveys

Anybody else have ideas what Drupal can do?

****Drupal is a lot more exciting than Joomla/Mambo/Xoops/PHP-Nuke
and we highly recommend clients and newbies to try Drupal first before giving up

The only setback for a newbie is that:

The default PUSHBUTTON theme is tricky to modify. Why is that the default logo is tiny, and the primary links are placed almost at the middle. For this, you have to edit the xtemplate.xtmpl which is not really fun.

Suggestion:
Default theme - pushbutton - modified to enable the user logo or banner to be placed top/centered

Second theme - suitable for `corporate or business' look

DrupalMalaysia.org registered

Muslim guy commented 29 March 2006 at 08:03

All praise to Allah the Great to give us the chance, we haved registered DrupalMalaysia.org to be based in Malaysia hosted with 500 Megabytes.

This site will serve Drupal enthusiasts and corporate applications.

http://drupalmalaysia.org

Dynn:
Please contact us by any means and we will discuss what your goodself and other acquiantances can offer.

Internet for ISLAM, get to know Islam and Muslims :) May Allah brings you to the Straight Path
http://muslimin.org/Islam

Good one!

najibx commented 1 December 2007 at 15:22

It's good to know someone around have started with drupal and taken this initiative. So when is our next event? BTW, I am based in Kuala Lumpur.

I have currently have a project, done it with Joomla. Almost done, but decided to migrate to Drupal before I hand over to my client in middle March. My decision due to intensive study and comparison between drupal, joomla/mambo, typo3, plone ...

So been learning alot in the past weeks. Looking forward to get my hands dirty with Drupal now ...

-najib-
Drupal web developer in Malaysia

Drupal in Malaysia Government Open Source Software Conference

najibx commented 1 December 2007 at 15:33

Please be noted that Successideaweb.com will be promoting Drupal in The Malaysian Government Open Source Software Conference - MyGOSSCON 2007 6-7 December 2007 which will be held at Putrajaya International Convention Center (PICC). I will be giving a presentation "Web Content Management with Drupal".

-najibx -
Drupal web developer in Malaysia