Ok... So i spent about 45 minutes on the demo site... Anything about the site can basically be configured through the GUI on the admin side and groups can run autonomously. If I added and configured the notifications module you can send anything from an email to text message to group members. I usually spend months on a site to configure it perfectly for a client and develop a custom theme. This site could have lots of improvements, but I think getting all the functions listed below added and working in 45 minutes illustrates that Drupal is quick and flexible. You could literally just drop on a theme, do some configuration of the UI with a couple tricks, and this project would have a wiki + cms + blog + group management / organization system seamlessly integrated together.
THe site has a place to post pages that could be turned into a wiki with an add on module called wikilinks. The site has groups, polls per group, ratings on discussions that are tracked, and differentiated admin / user roles. try to login using: testuser testuser$1234 P.S. The guy that complained that my argument in the past about Drupal is like Microsoft is silly. Micorsoft sucks because they are closed source and lost their minds when they released vista and office 2007. They do not suck because they ARE usually easy to use and have a big community of support. When your running a real company or business that depends on some software, but isn't MAKING that software, you need the software to work and will depend on the community that makes it to support it. I think a big energetic passionate community is an asset. 2010/10/18 Keith Williams <[email protected]> > My opinion... > > Basically the only person that seems to want silverstripe is Christian. I > think there are 3-4 people here that like Drupal in this group. > > The couple people interested in Drupal are working on a demo on my server. > I wish I had time to put in this week to this, but I literally am doing 120% > work on some projects, so I have no time to do a demo so that I can convince > one person that Drupal is a good system for a project like this. > > After reviewing silverstripe, it seems that it is primarily designed to be > a content management system or a blog for a few people or a company. It may > be a perfectly acceptable solution for sites like this; however, a large > website for a distributed community of individuals collaborating on a > project is not a simple cms website. Are there silverstripe sites with > large million+ hit per day sites that have hundreds of thousands of > registered users working in different areas of the site and with different > levels of access. So yes, Drupal does take some time to setup. Looking at > the default install of drupal without a guided tour is like installing linux > and wondering why it isn't making you coffee and writing your papers for > you. > > Christian: > > You're looking at it from a users point of view???? Thats not reasonable, > you can make Drupal and I'm sure silverstripe look like anything. THE REAL > ISSUE is going to be designing, configuring, coding, and maintaining the > site. Unless Silverstripe has a graphical query builder with access to > user profiles, content, files, a form builder data, fine grained user roles, > and a million tutorials on how to use it like Drupal does, then I think > silverstripe is not a good choice. The main advantage Drupal has is that a > "User" can be a designer and the "User" does not need to be a coder to help > with the website setup. > > If you don't have the time to talk on skype / or something else about this > then you're really not interested in finding a good solution for this, your > only interested in promoting silverstripe for some reason. > > > > > > > > > 2010/10/18 Drew Jensen <[email protected]> > > >> Hi again, >> >> >> Can you guys help me out here - >> >> We are down to two viable choices: >> silverstipe >> Drupal >> >> We have individuals willing to install/tweak either package. >> >> More folks for Drupal then Silverstripe perhaps, but Cloph is going to >> be around, so just that alone probably isn't a good determining factor. >> >> -sorry if I missed this in earlier email, cause I have not read every >> one: >> >> We do want to see these two demos - yes? >> (I will cc the Steering Committee on this email) >> >> How close to an email with two URLs so folks can click and look? >> >> Since we can't build both, how will we decide? >> >> I did read most emails and think you will agree that it's pretty much >> down to that, so let's just finish up. >> >> -just my observations. >> >> Thanks >> >> Drew >> >> >> >> -- >> E-mail to [email protected] <website%[email protected]>for >> instructions on how to unsubscribe >> 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* -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe 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
