I have used Joomla in the past for a fairly busy community website I run on the side. When I first learned about Catalyst first thing I did was look for what cool CMS was created using it. Unfortunately I didn't find anything ready to go live. I definitely think we need one but for it to actually be effective and actually get done it shouldn't be over engineered. I would really like to see a good skeleton of a CMS that gets a lot of the annoying stuff taken care of and allows for full customization. I probably can't do too much development on it but I can help out with the specs, features, wireframes, and roadmap if needed.
Another thing I think is missing from our community is a good catalyst based forum software. We need this pretty bad in my opinion because I hate using the other ones out there. Especially since every week there is a new vulnerability in each one. A good forum and a good CMS will probably come very handy for us. I know django framework has its own CMS and admin tool built in. Haven't used it but the idea its built in is very cool. Thanks, ------------------------------------------ Ali Mesdaq Security Researcher II Websense Security Labs http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com ------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: Matt Rosin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:28 AM To: catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Subject: [BULK] - [Catalyst] CMS Catalyst makes it easy to build a site with lots of little modules of content composing a single page - the actual content (words/images) being scattered in static apache directories, the database, the templates folders and the code. At some point a content management system of some type is needed. While I hand-roll this sort of thing now it might be nice to have a standard module with perhaps a rich editor and HTML form, or it might be more powerful with the ability to manage various stories/images on disk or db, and integrate uploads even, like some of the portal building systems do. Perhaps one integrated well with Catalyst could also allow the user to select template files to use in a given part of the screen to replace not just on a story basis but on a div basis. I'd just like to ask if anyone uses a CMS (beyond just hand-rolling for each instance) or has been seeing similar needs. I think much development time is spent on creating object management interfaces which perhaps could be boiled down to some repetitive functionality. Matt Rosin _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/