<P>Drupal is the English pronounciation for the dutch word 'druppel' which stands for 'drop'. Drupal is a full-featured content management/discussion engine suitable to setup a news-driven community or portal site. Drupal aims towards easy installation, excessive configuration and fine-grained maintainance capabilities. Due to its modular design drupal is flexibel and easy to adapt or extend.</P>
<P>Drupal is primarily written by Dries Buytaert (dries_at_drop.org) and build after Slash (<A HREF=\"http://slashcode.com/\">http://slashcode.com/</A>) and Scoop (<A HREF=\"http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/\">http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/</A>) and source code is available under terms of GNU General Public License (GPL).</P>
<P>We don't have a real demo site yet but drupal is used by (and created for) <A HREF=\"http://drop.org/\">http://drop.org/</A>. Create an account, play with it for a bit, read the <A HREF=\"module.php?mod=documentation\">documentation</A> and spend some time getting used to it.</P>