[Actionchix] Choice of CMS

[Cynthia Kiser]

Anyone know Drupal well enough to know if it fits the criteria that
Mary has proposed? I have not played with it but have heard good
things from folks I respect so am interested in finding out more. 

I know Drupal is used for lots of community organization sites. And
that content pieces can be reused - on multiple web pages or as RSS or
Atom feeds. Looking at their web site, the default templates meet
section 508 accessibility requirements. It mentions multilingual
support and hosting > 1 site from an instance. 

The module set packaged as CivicSpace might be a good fit for the
LinuxChix community http://drupal.org/node/26622 But a walk through
"Is Drupal Right for You" might be informative
http://drupal.org/handbook/is-drupal-right-for-you 

It is written in PHP with MySQL or Postgres as the database layer. 


Quoting Mary <mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org>:
> This is the discussion I'd really like to get over fairly fast. At the
> moment, the loose consensus view is Plone, primarily because the
> current site is already on Zope and our current admins have some
> Zope expertise.
> 
> Here's the requirements:
>  - ability to maintain current site (check www.linuxchix.org) structure
>    and content
>  - ability for multiple users to login and edit pages
>  - ability to have a front page newsfeed with RSS or Atom feeds
>  - good support for our designers: ability to apply a skin across the
>    entire site
>  - mature codebase
> 
> Here's some things that are nearly essential:
>  - ability to retain current URLs
> 
> Here's some things that would be good:
>  - automatic (or somewhat automatic) index/sidebar generation
>  - calendar of upcoming events
>  - ability to manage multiple sites (on different domains) with one
>    backend/auth system -- chapters might like this
>  - ability to either backend into a version control system or maintain
>    revision history itself
>  - ability for people to use their own editor on their own machines and
>    then send/upload/save pages onto the site
> 
> So, are there any standout alternatives to Plone for this? Here's what
> we need to know in your response:
> 
>  1. What language is it written in?
>  2. Which of the above features does it have?
>  3. Have you used it?
>  4. Have you used anything else? How does it compare?
> 
> Please respond by Sunday March 19. I'll almost certainly take the
> candidates to Dancer Vesperman who is our sysadmin to discuss the final
> choice.
> 
> -Mary
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Cynthia N. Kiser
cnk at ugcs.caltech.edu