I just got a chance to read this thread and I really appreciate this measured discussion of the Drupal and Joomla development models with respect to their workability for Whitehouse website(s).
At the risk of this being a drive-by troll, however (since there really were a number of excellent points made) at some point one really has to acknowledge that the Drupal development model is just a better fit for the way people would like to see the government operate, namely that is a highly co-operative structure with clearly delineated areas of responsibility in a way that Joomla may not disagree with,but has not really effectively implemented. There are quite a number of lower level synergies as well (not to mention the gross disparity in enterprise penetration between the two systems) and without reducing the decision process to a J vs. D polemic, there really are a greater set of affinities on the one side, much more so than the other. Of course one also has to recognize the myriad connections in Drupal's development history with political organisations, (e.g. Dean's campaign, which was really the precursor to Obama's "Internet victory.") Drupal in general just has a much greater involvement in that space. Also (and I realise I run the risk of being snarky here) it wouldn't surprise me if a look at the numbers revealed Joomla was being used in more instances for Republican candidate/official's websites; this is based on actually seeing Joomla used more on that side of the political spectrum. (With the notable exception being a certain unnamed Fox news site.) Not trying to incite a polemical debate here, I'm just sayin… But perhaps the more interesting consideration is framework interoperability, specfically the services (and objects) that each can expose or make use of, and of course a shared semantic framework. So we are not talking about 'which' CMF but how they can be used together. The Drupal roadmap definitely includes GGG; I do not know where Joomla is with this, perhaps someone who does can speak to it. Forest Mars -- "In theory, theory and practice are exactly the same. In practice, they're completely different." ------------------------------------------------------------------ This email is: [ ] private: do not forward [ x ] o.k. to forward [ x ] o.k. to blog [ ] ask first -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBRkjTLDbz7LySoccvEQJDcQCguZZj4M4kOVOlOX4CtbgR0rppsdovAjra 3RRXIlkdzuYI0YJz4WyvKlTn =MLhk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------ The New TLDs are Here! Switch to Name.Space: http://namespace.org/switch Support new domains & keep free media free! Register yours today! https://secure.name-space.com/registry
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