see below. -- rgds,
Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Saturday 28 August 2010 12:53:49 Mugarura Cavin wrote: > __________________________________________________________________ > > My question is what you, with most of you with far more african experience > than Joeri and myself combined, expect of a Content Management System, like > Drupal, and of a community like the Drupal community. How can the people > that we will talk to and with on Thursday support the website builders in > Africa? What did the CMS's that you have tried so far lack in > functionality? Or, in short, how can we make Drupal better for your use? > > Reinier Battenberg > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Drupal is a good CMS, just like Joomla or wordpress is. Even html is ok. > I dont see what the Drupal Community can do for Africa? Their focus > should be global. Drupal is widely used, but not as popular as joomla. > This is true even in european countries. The reasons for this are varied. > If the promoters, of Drupal want to make it more widely used, then > they are competing against nature, a very hard thing to do. They are not competing against nature. They are competing mostly against Joomla and Wordpress. These 3 platforms are the current top 3 in the CMS world. Joomla has severe limitations, mainly the inability to create dynamic content types that are extendable. Drupal is absolutely superior in this area. Wordpress has the biggest advantage that it is offered as a hosted solution on wordpress.com. There are about 4 times more wordpress.com installations than self-installed wordpress installs. There are now several hosted Drupal solutions coming up as well. Most notably (besides www.easysites.ug) www.drupalgardens.com Its still free to try out. As in what Drupal can do for Africa, we did discuss at the conference. We'll be launching a site to target the african Drupal community, do more evangelism and try to create more success stories. Please note the use of the word we in the above paragraph. The community is not them, like those ones, the Drupal ones over there. The Drupal community is anyone who does something for Drupal. You and me, for example. > > will Drupal, become more popular, i think so (maybe 10 years - could > be less), but several things have to take place. I will only point out > one. Joomla has more contributed modules, > than all the other Content Mgt Systems combined. How can this be > averted? (dont ask me) Well, as a little bit of research shows, that statement is actually not entirely true. last count, july 2010, drupal had 5800 modules ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal ) and Joomla claims they have 5560 http://extensions.joomla.org/ > > Its a good fight for the Drupal PR machine, not an easy one. > Is it possible for an automaker to overtake, Toyota, (yes), but its not > easy. The current competition would be Wordpress, which is more easy to use than Drupal. Hopefully the new Drupal 7 release, which is focussing on usability and drupalgardens will allow Drupal to compete in this field too. > > I also have to point out that using Drupal, will not make a bad > website look good. At the end of the day, it boils down to the skill > set of the individual, whether the person uses > Drupal, Joomla, Sharepoint or note pad (html) Very true, indeed. (though a sharepoint site, IMHO will always make you look very stupid, no matter how sexy it looks like) _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
