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
>



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Cary Gordon
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