Before you start

Does Drupal 7 work on Debian Lenny (incl. Backports) or Squeeze without recompile PHP?

I'm trying to determine if Drupal 6 would be a good choice to deploy a non-profit website for sponsoring orphans.

What I'm trying to accomplish is:

1) Orphanage(s) - each orphanage will have a profile with photos and information.
2) Orphan(s) - each orphanage will have several orphans with a profile.
3) Visitors will find an orphan and choose to sponsor them by a reoccurring donation.

I am re-developing a new architecture for managing some websites, which consists of:
* One or more public sites with read access to anyone (at least in part) and some users have other access too (like editors, authors, admins). This site will contain the usual stuff like news, blogs, webshop and other things.
* An internal or private site (possibly on another domain, probably hosted on a local server) which is only accessible for some registered users (ie. members) through SSH. There should be a check if the login user has membership, all other access is denied (not even read access). Pages on this site are not searchable and do not occur in the Google index. This part is used for internal communications (in between organic groups) and possibilities to post/edit shared documents, and other functions for collaboration/groupware. For example a documentation system with access levels dependend on your user account (to which groups you belong).

Is this possible to built with Drupal? Or is there another framework/portal system that can do this better?
The public part I guess is no problem.

Hello, I'm curious about using Drupal's multi-site capability to have multiple sites (one for Admissions, one for Financial Aid, one for each of the colleges, etc.) feed from one code base. The university is small right now and I'm sure having the whole university on one instance will be fine, but what about 5-10 years from now when the university is [hopefully] much larger? Will there be performance issues? Does it make things ridiculously difficult when upgrading or moving to another server?

Thanks

Hi,

I am in the process of deciding whether to use WordPress or Drupal for a client and want to make sure I am using a system that has the functionality they want, but is also easy for their staff to use. Here is the functionality they need:

Okay, so I looked at what Drupal is capable of, and how extensible it is, and all the benefits it can provide me, and I have definitely decided to start using it, at least for one or two of my current projects, if not for most/all of my projects in the future.

But having made that decision, I have run into a brick wall.