Oh, I've been using Drupal for about 4+ years and know just about every aspect of the system from theming to module development to performance. I'm not an expert at it but I can at least show you some "cool" stuff it does. I'd be willing to do this for a group of people using web conferencing, if someone has access to that.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Keith Williams < [email protected]> wrote: > I'd set up a demo, if you send me what the requirements are. I can > probably do this in a day or two. > > You seem to be fairly set on silver stripe and if thats what you want then > by all means do that. If you want a demo of Drupal and a site to kick > around let me know. I can even show you how to use some of the major > features. I'd like you to show me silverstripe in return though. > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Christian Lohmaier < > [email protected] <lohmaier%[email protected]>>wrote: > >> Hi Keith, >> >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Keith Williams >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > [...] >> > I would set out some tasks that the CMS will need to facilitate and >> judge >> > from that. >> >> See the start of the thread. >> >> > I also think that you will find that using Drupal's solr search >> > and integrated commenting / discussion features will help to open up >> > participation by people. >> >> silverstripe has that as well, as shown on the Faq-page of the demo: >> http://pumbaa.ooodev.org:7780/faq >> >> >> Drupal might have a huge amount of extensions, a huge userbase and a >> huge amount of followers, but as mentioned that doesn't matter to me. >> >> Believe me: >> I set up the mentioned guidelines/requiremente *before* looking for a >> cms to try out myself, and not after playing with silverstripe. >> >> And of course I visited pages like drupal and whatnot (used >> wikipedia's overview as a starting point). >> >> silverstripe was the first one where I could determine it would suite >> my needs without spending hours on the corresponding website. >> >> > Go to: >> > >> > http://api.drupal.org and see the documentation >> > >> > Check out the amount of documentation and information is available for >> > configuring and managing Drupal. Does silverstripe have the same? >> >> Of course silverstipe has api documentation, ( >> http://api.silverstripe.org/ ) documentation on how to configure the >> modules, support fora, etc. >> by looking at the api site, the list of core modules is very short. >> (i.e. those that are maintained by the core developers of >> silverstripe). But the point is also that it doesn't need that much >> documentation, that the new site doesn't need much more than that. >> >> You guys always demand that you definitely must try drupal - but did >> /*you*/ have a closer look at silverstripe yet? >> >> > [..] >> > Anyway, I like Drupal obviously, but this isn't blind love. If I found >> > something that I could develop as fast with and not do boring forms and >> > reports by hand then I'd look into it. >> >> See - same for me. Found silverstripe. It does what I want it do, thus >> I'm happy with it, and the urge to look out for alternative >> significantly diminished. >> >> Fullquote snipped. Please do inline quoting without fullquotes. >> >> ciao >> Christian >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail to >> [email protected]<website%[email protected]> >> List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ >> All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted. >> >> > > > -- > *Thought Farm Productions <http://www.thoughtfarmproductions.com> > [email protected]* > *(201) 691-7057* > > -- *Thought Farm Productions <http://www.thoughtfarmproductions.com> [email protected]* *(201) 691-7057* -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to [email protected] List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted.
