Campus Diaries is a social networking platform and magazine for college students in India to share their stories and connect with others. It has over 10,000 members across 250 colleges in 13 cities. The site was created using Drupal for its flexibility and large library of modules. It utilizes various Drupal modules and tools like Views, Rules, and Commerce to provide key site functionality. Performance is optimized through caching, database configuration, and hosting on Amazon EC2. The founders plan to continue expanding the site to more colleges and universities while improving features like responsive design and recommendation tools.

1. Campus Diaries
The Best and The Biggest Celebration of Your
Stories.
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2. Hello I am Campus Diaries
Your Platform campusdiaries.com
 Your Stories campusdiaries.com/explore
 Your Magazine campusdiaries.com/magazine
 Your Community campusdiaries.com/people
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3. Biodata
13 cities, 250 colleges in India
 Community strength 10,000+
 Stories told 7,000+
 20,000 monthly magazines in print and
digital
 One year old
 Team of 7 campusdiaries.com/about
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4. The Concept
Social
network
User
Generated
Content
Print
mag
Mainstream
Publishing
Publishing
&
Blogging
Digi
mag
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5. Campusdiaries.com and Drupal
Why DRUPAL 7 ??
It was love at
first sight.
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6. Lets be serious ..
Complex is simple
 There is a module for that
 Power of people – The Community
 Feels safe
 Commerce couldn't be easier
 Customize it – Open Source
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7. What we made out of Drupal 7
Campus Diaries Website
http://campusdiaries.com/
Lets go check it out.
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8. Building Blocks
Views
 Blocks
 Profile 2
 User Relationship
 Rules
 Heartbeat
 Commerce
 Omega Theme
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9. Some cool stuff ..
Relation Module
 Features Module
 Node Js
 Apache Solr
 Google Analytics
 Syslog
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10. What Else
Flags
 Address Field
 Plupload
 Ckeditor
 Organic Groups
 List goes on and on ..
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11. Custom Development
Fit to push – improvise
 Ajaxify the hell out of it
 Interactivity Widget
 Relation Widget
 Featuring
 Onboarding
 A simple slideshow
 Surprize Me
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12. Performance Matters
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Its all about caching
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Zend Opcode Cache
Query Cache
Entity Cache
Views Cache
Memcache
CDN
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13. 
Database
◦ Optimize queries
◦ Master and Slave
Zip your ajax too
 Js and css minification and compression
 Logstash
 Php optimization - Xhprof
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14. Campus Diaries Runs on
Nginx
 Php 5.4
 Mysql
 Amazon EC2
 NFS
 Emails – Mandrill
 Munin
 GA
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16. This might help
The only correct way is the Drupal Way
 Version control - GIT
 Get settings out of database
 Don’t use apache, Nginx runs well with
drupal
 Don’t use core statistics, GA is awesome
 Don’t log into database
 Custom php code in Views – NO
 Cache all you can
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17. We are working on
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Responsive and Adaptive Design
◦ Adaptive Theme
◦ Picture Module
◦ Complete Design Overhaul
Recommendation Engine
 Make Nginx and Memcache talk directly
 Trends and Customized analytics
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◦ Python & Google Charts API
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18. Exciting and Challenging
Wordpress, Blogger exporter for users
 Lightweight simple image cropping
 Apps
 QA and automation
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20. Questions ??
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21. Find us on
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f/campusdiaries
@campus_diaries
Raj Chourasia
raj@campusdiaries.com
9591346976
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22. Thanks !
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