It appears that you are bashing Drupal because of your experience with an old version, and that you want to promote CUNY's WordPress Commons in a Box. You are drawing a conclusion — perhaps that Wordpress is "better" — although I am not sure how you get there. I make a fair chunk of my living working on Drupal projects in the library/academic/non-profit space, and I am deeply involved with the Drupal project, but I do not feel that WordPress is "the competition". If I bid Drupal for a CMS and lose to Wordpress or another FOSS CMS, I see that as a win. As a true believer in free and open-source software, I see the competition as the expensive closed source, lock-in systems. I prefer Drupal to WordPress, because my company builds complex systems that often integrate with external services, and Drupal provides a much more robust set of tools for to build on. If someone else has already built a great system that suits your purpose in WordPress, then the toolset is not an issue. You can certainly build great tools in WordPress. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Alex Armstrong <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks Mark. Both of these look promising. > > Cary, I wasn't trying to tar COD. (That's a nice verb right there :) > My comment about the table of unfair feature comparison was about this > design pattern in general. I probably should have kept my opinions to > myself in this context. > > I am little biased against Drupal, which has to do with my own > background: I've never used anything later than Drupal 6! > > We're also looking into platforms for building academic communities or > communities in higher ed contexts. The bigwig in this area is CUNY's > Commons in a Box, which is WordPress-powered. > > I'm not aware of something as full-featured and actively-maintained, > whether open source or not -- but please correct me if I'm wrong. > Hence my gentle instistence on WordPress. > > (I was planning to ask about the academic communities as a seperate > question, which I may do anyway, depending on who bites in this thread > and as I wrap up my own research.) > > Alex > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > There is also Able Organizer, a new CRM distribution for Drupal that has > events in its protfolio. I have not had much opportunity to work with it, > yet. https://www.drupal.org/project/ableorganizer > > > > Drupal COD is well established. I wouldn't tar COD for some external BS. > That makes no sense. We use it for out local Drupal events. > > > > On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:06 AM, Alex Armstrong <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > >> Thanks for pitching in. COD looks good. > >> > >> On their site (http://usecod.com) I found the obligatory table of > unfair feature comparisons. One of these is to an out-of-date WordPress > plugin. > >> > >> Any WP suggestions? > >> > >> ('m not partial, but as of earlier today it looks like I might be using > it for other, but affiliated reasons.) > >> > >> Alex > >> > >> > >> > >> On 10/15/2014 05:34 PM, Clapp, Sharon B. (Library) wrote: > >>> Someone has mentioned Drupal's Conference Organizing Distribution, > right?https://www.drupal.org/project/cod > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of Alex Armstrong > >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 5:36 AM > >>> To:[log in to unmask] > >>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference site backend > >>> > >>> Let me try and ask this again, with less ambiguity: > >>> > >>> What built-in CMS functionality or plugin have you used to assist you > in managing a conference schedule and registration? > >>> > >>> Among other things, I'm in the market for a new CMS. So rather than > the specialized tool that Francis suggested, I'm looking for a > multi-purpose platform or a platform I can wrangle to serve multiple > purposes. > >>> > >>> P.S. Confusingly, I switched my CODE4LIB subscription to a different > email. > >>> > >>> Alex > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On October 10, 2014 4:23:57 PM EEST, Francis Kayiwa<[log in to unmask]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> On 10/10/2014 09:13 AM, Alex Armstrong wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi list, > >>>>> > >>>>> Not exactly related to libraries, but: > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm putting together a site for the annual conference of a library > >>>>> consortium. Last year we had paired a static site with an event > >>>>> service > >>>>> (Sched) to manage the schedule and provide workshop sign ups. This > >>>>> time we'd like to move everything under one umbrella. > >>>>> > >>>>> Any recommendations for a conference backend? > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm looking for an open source solution I can deploy on a shared > >>>>> hosting plan. I'm not picky about the CMS. The current iteration is > >>>>> put together locally using a static site generator, so I can switch > to whatever. > >>>>> > >>>> Give Open Conference a looksie > >>>> > >>>> https://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/ > >>>> > >>>> Cheers, > >>>> ./fxk > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >> -- > >> Alex > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com