Data Migration into Drupal

moshe weitzman — Sat, 14 May 2011 11:59:16 +0000

Moshe Weitzman

update: slides posted to Slideshare

So, your client has seen the light and is tossing out their old CMS in favor of Drupal. Their existing content, in the form of square pegs, needs to fit into nice round Drupal objects.

Intended Audience:

Folks who need data moved into Drupal, or developers who are tasked with this challenge.

Questions answered by this session:

How can I move my site to Drupal

How can I robustly migrate data into Drupal

How do I build an application on top of Drush

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 13:00 - 14:00

Room:

Maple Room

I'm Leaving You: The Risks of Dumping Your Old CMS for Drupal and How to Manage Them

Nicole Lind — Thu, 12 May 2011 01:23:13 +0000

Nicole Lind

In the old days, moving to Drupal often meant converting static pages or templates to Drupal nodes. Today, it is rare that we get to build a site from scratch. Reality is that most major Drupal projects are now migrations from other content management systems.

Taking on such a migration is not a trivial decision for an organization. There is a great deal of complexity in the reasons for migrating, but the decision is often not understood well amongst the various stakeholders.

Intended Audience:

This session is geared toward project managers and managers dealing with significant risk associated with migration from a legacy CMS platform to Drupal.

Questions answered by this session:

How to set realistic expectations with stakeholders?

How to document an appropriate risk analysis and mitigation strategy in regards to a migration to Drupal?

You got "attitude" from legacy CMS users? Strategies on how to best deal with them.

Schedule info

Time slot:

24 August 12:30 - 13:30

Room:

Arnhem Gallery

Slides:

nlindLondonSessionV2-notes.pdf

DrupalCon London 2011 - Migration

Data Migration into Drupal

I'm Leaving You: The Risks of Dumping Your Old CMS for Drupal and How to Manage Them