I’ve been helping to assemble some lists of modules that would be enabled by default for three “typical” website profiles that we’ve come up with at the TLC.
“Simple site” - a regular “static” department-ish website that is really just using Drupal as an easy way to share editing duties without requiring a geek.
“Community site” - akin to weblogs.ucalgary.ca - which may (or may not) be a superset of “simple site”
“TLC projects” - a project site supported by the Teaching & Learning Centre. May be a “simple site” or may be more complex than that. Might involve some unpretty hackery to provide things like “private” content, etc… This profile will require a bit more babysitting/handholding/documenting, and may not be for the faint of heart. That being said, we’re basically using this profile for the next version of the TLC department website … (coming this summer(?) to a browser near you)
The list of default modules for each profile is online , generated by the most excellent OmniOutliner Pro 3. Each site profile is just a starting point, and may be customized from there (which is why some modules are listed, but not enabled by default for any profile).