Before you start

I am about to setup a website for a school.

The school have departments with their own admins. The department admins needs to be able to create content for their part of the site but not have access to the main site or other departements.
New departements are added a few times per year so the superadmin should be able to create new departments quite easily.

To make things more complicated, the departments have teachers with limited access to creating content.

I'm currently using WordPress MU for a very local citizen journalism site with multiple blogs. Do to circumstances I will not mention, I am considering moving my WPMu to another platform. Can I export blogs -- including posts, comments, tags, etc. -- to drupal? And some of these blogs are very photo centric.

I want to do an episode guide of a couple of shows with Drupal, short of like the way tv.com works, but I'm doubtful about what's the best way to have an episode with independent sections between it. In tv.com the episode basic info is edited in a page, that may count as a node, but each episode have its own sections like "reviews", "cast and crew", "trivia", "notes", "allusions" and "quotes" that have their own page for editing, and you can view pages that only list the content of these sections in all episodes.

So, I'm wondering if Drupal is a viable solution for me, or if too much work would be involved toward my end goal in using Drupal.

I'm make a site that is almost like deviantart.com, in that the content is mostly images, and in my case, images and music uploaded by the users. Like dA, I want users to be able to sell their works, with the focus being on graphic design solutions, web design, music production/beats (with a commission going back to the company of course).

Hi
I'm currently considering of replacing the platform of one of my sites which is an article directory for a specific niche. Can Drupal be a platform of an article directory?

It means that it supports:
multi users
different statuses of articles
several sections of articles (title, summary, author resource box etc`)
Super user that can review the submitted articles and can edit/decline/approve

Thanks

Hi,
I am moving site across to Drupal but wonder if should actually install Acquia instead? The site won't be able to afford the Acquia subscription services but I read that you can download and install Acquia as open source anyway and that it includes the most important modules. Please could someone advise which version I should use for my installation, Drupal or Acquia?

Thanks,
Mickey