Cary, I sense I have upset you. I don't think I bashed or promoted
anything, but I could mistaken. In any case, I certainly I did not mean
to upset you and I'm really sorry about that.
Let me go back to the beginning: I am fact-gathering CMSs and plugins
for building a conference and community site (two different projects,
happening in that order) for a consortium.
Any and all suggestions are very welcome.
Alex
On 10/16/2014 10:17 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:
> 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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Alex
