Thanks for that Kent. The URL for the event is http://www.wordcamp.org.nz
Sorry if I touched a nerve. You can do a seminar on whatever you like - but I just sent an emial and there isnt actually going to be a Drupal talk. So using your 20th century analogy is a good one because thats how I felt the first time I saw the Drupal UI and vowed never to show it to a client. My experience is that that clients (people like my parents) want to feel comfortable when administering a site that they might have to use everyday - this is exactly why around 10% of the Web runs WordPress and why WP is so popular. People know that code can always be improved and that is what is happening with WordPress. I'm pretty sure you can't blanket one of the biggest Open Source projects out there as having no good developers :P WordPress code is really coming along. The new core developers are freaking awesome. WordPress is gearing up to drop PHP4. The future is bright! Anyway its horses for courses. I really want the Drupal camp to come along and see whats going on because at the end of the day both are Open Source projects and I figure all our hearts are probably all in the right places. WordPress peeps might get to meet some Drupal folk and vise versa and we all might find ways to help one another out and look at where both pieces of software fit into the wider industry as a whole. Once there was a time when WordPress was better suited for a mere blog but that time has gone. We use it to run a gaming portal, the New York Times use it, and many many other huge sites use WordPress. Schools and Universities are using WordPress for their internal Wikis and social networking sites. Why are these businesses and schools deciding to use WordPress and not Drupal? Its a valid question and it'd be fun talking about it discussing it at WordCamp - and as a developer are you developing on the CMS of the future? Its all stuff that can and should be talked about... Heck I think a "Drupal WordPress Panel" would be awesome!!! Its one thing discussing this stuff here but a panel would be crazy cool!!! Peace, Dan On Feb 2, 10:43 am, Berend de Boer <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> "Kent" == Kent Parker <[email protected]> writes: > > Kent> Can I do a seminar trashing Wordpress and promoting Drupal? > Kent> I'm not joking. No actually yes, I am. Or not. Seriously > Kent> I did a job on wordpress recently and it felt like I'd gone > Kent> back to the 20th century but I'm sure some people like it > Kent> since it is the most popular CMS of all. In some scripting > Kent> languages however $popular != "good"; > > It's all about the sweet spot I think. If you just want to blog, > WordPress works very well. If you want to built a generic website, > well.... > > And let's admit: Drupal developers usually don't give the back-end > much thought. > > -- > All the best, > > Berend de Boer > > Drupal 7 released, register for quickstart > Xplain Hosting Drupal 6 to 7 seminar: > > https://www.xplainhosting.com/d7quickstart -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
