Before you start

from where i can download Calendar as an extra module.

Can drupal be used as a blog hosting tool? Basically, what I specifically want to do is put drupal on my site+database and allow individual users to register an account and create their own blogs with their own styles and templates. Is this hard to do, and can it be done with one database?

I have a site on MSN groups and I'm fed up with all the restrictions they have with what you can do. I want to get off MSN and get something that I can host myself. The most important requirement for the site is for registered users to be able to post their own image galleries. Is this possible with Drupal? I'm feeling a bit too lazy ATM to look though the site and find out myself. :)

Hi folks;

My ISP is currently running PHP 4.0.5 and Apache 1.3.19 on his server and doesn’t seem compelled to upgrade. I really like what I am reading about Drupal, but I am wondering if I would be able to install it on the server. Seems like I am below the minimum requirements. Do I have any alternatives with the installation? Could I use an older (stable) version of Drupal? A patch? Will it install and run, but just not have some features?

I've been thinking about setting up a few (up to three) community project sites and I've been playing with Drupal for a while. I'm not sure if Drupal is the solution I'm looking for so I thought I'd ask here.

The main features I'm unsure of are a mailing list/forum hybrid and a wiki as part of my Drupal site.

Wiki
After reading a few past threads about wikis in Drupal I'm thoroughly confused. It seems that in order to implement real wiki functionality within Drupal you have to use a combination of freelinking, wiki for markup and flexinode but there seems to be some debate around what exactly constitutes a wiki. I'd like a very easy and flexible way for lots of people to edit web pages to create a big knowledgebase and create a new page by creating a link to it (in my head I see it as a kind of giant brainstorm or spider diagram). For this reason I'm worried that the taxonomy definable in Drupal will be too limiting and restrict the creative flow rather than help organise it. I know that Drupal is designed to do this kind of thing in a different way, but I've recently become very keen on documenting things using PHPWiki and it seems an effective method. I'm not trying to create a big web site representing a corporate identity which needs a moderation and editing process and strict structure, just a free flow of ideas.

Mailing list/forum
I'm not really sure of the exact capabilities of the forum, mail handler and mass mailer modules but I was hoping for a combination of mailing list and forum so that people can use either method to interact with the same list. Am I right in thinking CivicSpace does this and is based on Drupal? I'd rather not use a forked project if Drupal can offer the same functionality.

Hi Folks

I'm just looking into whether Drupal (probably Civic Space) will do the job for us - we are a medium sized non profit organisation. Sorry if these are totally noob-like. This is what we are wanting to do: