Before you start

Is drupal the right tool?
We are going to publish a web magazine covering 5 nationalized editions.
Each edition will be edited separately but when posting there should be a choice between publishing in "my edition" and in "all editions.
The design could be different between editions as some are more light weight ans some have much more content.
The setup are in the Nordic Countries where we have different languages but can read and understand the other countries languages.

Could Drupal be an alternative?

Please I would need some help here Google hasn't really been that good Today, I just got a request from a client to build a multi level marketing site with social features like facebook and I am a bit stuck at the moment.
Please is there a drupal component that can do this? Or even a tutorial? Thanks.. An example of the site he wants is leom.biz

I would like to replace my MS Access database with something other than a Microsoft dependent application.

Will Drupal and MySQL work as a replacement? Will I be able to generate reports from my data as I can with Access? My thoughts are that I would keep the data in a MySQL server. The front-end would run through a browser and connect to the data from within our LAN. Am I on the right track?

Thank You

I'm in the process of developing a project management site, and I'm wondering if Drupal would make things easier for me. The site will require the following:

- the ability to create multiple concurrent online projects or jobs (containing multiple projects)
- projects and jobs will be created by users as well as a preprogrammed algorithm (if a job is created, all required projects are automatically created)
- Each project and job will be unique
- each user will be able to view and access all of their assigned projects from a summary page
- each project will contain 2 - 10 users, each able to adjust and comment on the project
- projects will only be accessible to those users assigned to it. Once the project is completed, other users may view it.
- projects will be part of a larger job. Each user will occasionally be transferred to a different project within the same job (but never more than one project for each job)
- statistics for each user's performance per project/job will be viewable

Does this sound like something Drupal is capable of? The main stickler for me is having a limited user set for each project, but keeping the project private until it is completed. Roles would do, but I'd need an unlimited number of roles.

There is much more to the site, but I'm fairly sure that I've found modules that will be capable of fulfilling the requirements.

I'm deeply fascinated with the idea of a modular framework for local and virtual community platform, that ties together content management, project management (open collaboration), and 'open equity' or some system of user rating, value trading and fundmaking. The closest thing I've seen in the proprietary realm is Spigit (http://www.spigit.com/videos/).

I am trying to decide how best to apply Drupal to a project I am starting.

The choice is basically between implementing my own database schema and using Drupal as a front end, or using CCK to create the database within the Drupal framework.

My question is this:
I have a table of items ("vehicles") where each one can change it's characteristics over time (slowly changing data).
For example, a vehicle could have an initial engine power of 200 hp, but then a year later, it is modified and the engine power is now 220 hp.

I then have nodes that reference this item (e.g. maintenance logs).

I can use CCK to build "maintenance log" nodes that reference the vehicle, but it is important that each node references the vehicle as it was at the time when the node is created.

What approach would you recommend to do something like this?
Is the revisions-module a possibility, or should I just make a copy of the original vehicle node, and mark the old one as "old"? How would I go about making a copy of the vehicle node when the user modifies one or more fields, and marking the old one?