Before you start

I need to build a site this week for group working on an election issue. We need to use Civicrm. I would love to use Drupal 6 with Civicrm 2.1 which just went into code freeze. Or I could install Drupal 5 with Civicrm 2.0 which is stable.

Either way I'm going to need to upgrade.

Am I crazy to install Drupal 6 and Civicrm 2.1 right now? I'm just really itching for some of the new features of 2.1.

I'm rummaging around trying to see how This ties together with That, and I come across mention of "language translation" or some-such...so does Drupal (or one of its modules) somehow translate English into another language?? I'm interested in having automatic computer translations of my webpages done, and I'd hire a native speaker to verify its semantics and clean it up here and there.

Or have I misunderstood and Drupal only offers documentation, etc., in different languages?

Is there a Drupal roadmap available to view somewhere? I can only find references to old versions by performning a search.

Also, what's the normal release cycle for updates, patches, etc?

I'm looking at making a switch from Joomla (just not well thought out enough) to Drupal and doing my due diligence.

Thanks,

Christian

I am creating a simple website for our family vacation home, hoping that Drupal is the right CMT for me, and would appreciate any comments and/or guidance.

Is Drupal right for me?

Requirements:
1. Generic sign-on home page

2. Calendar with scheduling, allowing all approved users the ability to reserve the home for single or multiple days. As we often overlap vacations, we would need the ability for multiple people to reserve the same day(s). The calendar should be hidden from non-approved users.

I recently lost my computer partner and we were days from opening the site using Joomla. A friend suggested I could do it on my own with Drupal as it was friendlier. My question before I start is can this program have an online store, a directory (like a yellow pages) and allow teachers to post courses, charging their students as they enroll. This would have to allow multiple users as each person is responsible for their own content however only one administrator. I understand about permissions, just need to know if drupal is able to do everything I need. Thanks your help is appreciated

Understanding IHS is basically Apache...

but wanted to confirm, that it using IHS and DB2 that are already installed as opposed to the Apache and MySQL that normally coincide with the Drupal CMS.

Are there any documents someone can point me to?

Thank you