Now now. It's perfectly acceptable to bash Drupal. Remember what's written on the jar: "choosy moms don't choose Drupal."
Just trolling a little,
Michael | @gollydamn
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:09 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference site backend
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
