Lee Tambiah wrote:

>Not only do we need the CMS but we need a new mockup design from Mairin which 
>I have been waiting around for. With regards to the CMS some of the links on 
>the page for testing dont work (but maybe as im behind a proxy) but i cannot 
>access the Plone CMS at http://demo.gnome-cn.org/ or the Midguard URL (but 
>sure i have accessed this at home so probably is proxy). At current we have 5 
>CMS for our options, could we not short list, I dont think TIKI WIKI is what 
>we want at all just from looking at it,
>

Hi Lee,

Several weeks ago, the CMS evaluation appeared urgent & imminent. So I 
took some time to answer the Gnome's requirements point-by-point.
http://gnome.rclaporte.com/TikiGnomeEval
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsRequirements/TikiEval

While I understand that you want this done as soon as possible, I would 
appreciate if you wait for the skin to be integrated before judging 
"from looking at it". In the middle of August, I asked here on this list 
for a mockup. I was told, in essence, to put a basic mockup until the 
real one is ready.

For many many reasons too long to explain here, I think Tiki 
CMS/Groupware would be an excellent solution for your needs. And I think 
it would be excellent for Tiki as well, as is for example the KDE wiki: 
http://wiki.kde.org/

When available, I will integrate the look & feel into a Tiki template 
and will show whoever's interested how it's done. Tiki is very easy to 
theme but I'd rather demonstrate with actions and code than with my 
words :-)

In the end, maybe another CMS will be chosen because of reason X, Y or Z 
(And I know it's not just features, it is also community, documentation, 
etc) and I will learn from this as an opportunity to improve.

Best regards,

M ;-)


> and Plone is just a major monster which is going to require python coders and 
> is over complex for us. As most of us are PHP devs our decisions should also 
> be influenced towards this after all we are going to maintain it and 
> customizing the CMS. 
>
>Pesonally I think the CMS for use would either be Drupal or Midguard in our 
>case, but there is no point of a personal opnion as Quim rightly says we need 
>to proove that it does what we require it to do. If we could drop PLONE and 
>Tiki, then we can concentrate on the most likely ones. As there seems to be 
>much anticipation regarding the choice at moment I will start looking into 
>evaluating and give my few bucks worth.
>
>If we look at the Drupal Page at:-  
>http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsRequirements/DrupalEval it has upto 40 table 
>rows for feedback. Thats a lot to test! Can't we reduce it by half?
>
>Some of the things I have suggested are to speed the process up by cutting it 
>down a little. Do you agree?
>
>Regards
>
>L. Tambiah
>
>GNU/Linux Enthusiast
>
>  
>

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M ;-)

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