[wuug-list] CMS advice

[Aaron Mavrinac]

On 2/1/07, BJ <linuxonly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey wuugers,
>
> I'm new to this list, but not to UNIX - studied it at the U starting in 1989
> - primarily Solaris, then shifted to linux in 1996 - having tasted most
> major linux distros, lately I'm focusing on gentoo and (k)ubuntu.  Also
> proud to say I work for a 99% linux-based company (in process of
> virtualizing a couple of windows boxen - then I will say 100% :) ).

Welcome. :)

> A friend of mine at the UofT actually told me that Windsor had a UUG - so
> its good to see there are others in Windsor smart enough to use unix-based
> systems - albeit a small group. ;)

It's actually a pretty huge group for a city this size, if you count
everyone that's ever participated since around 1999, and I know tons
more around town who haven't. Big percentage of 'experts' too.

> I'm looking for something that does it all (static/dynamic content, support
> for rss, blogs, forums, polls, file/image galleries, wikis, security, etc)
> and is the most easy to extend or add functionality.  So far I'm quite
> impressed with the latest Drupal 5.0 release - but I don't have time to
> try/invest/learn all the others.
>
> Any advice?

I don't have much actual experience with big CMS systems like that,
but based on a bit of research I did recently, I'd say try Plone. It's
supposed to be -really- extensible and customizable, yet appears to be
no more complicated than it needs to be. It looks really chunky
though, so I don't know how well it would scale unless your hosting
box has ample processing power compared to the number of clients
you're serving...

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