10/05/06 10:32 , Categories: Gentoo

A few days ago I purchased gentoo.org.au (no, don't bother looking, it doesn't point anywhere yet ).

I have been investigating various programs to help manage the webspace. Started off looking at various CMS programs:

Joomla - can't say it grabbed me at all. The default setup is way too messy, and even after fidling with the seconds for 5 minutes couldn't improve it.
Drupal - much cleaner interface, and default, this actually creates reasonably sexy pages without much effort.
Geeklog - looked, moved on quickly.

However people in #gentoo-au have recommended that a CMS may be overkill and to try out a wiki. So it looks like I will be experimenting with phpwiki and mediawiki over the next few days.

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Comment from: Seemant Kulleen [Member]

· http://dev.gentoo.org/~seemant

Well, you could always roll your own (

http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/seemant/2006/10/04/communities_django_is_one

) with django (

http://www.djangoproject.com

) or, if you must,

http://www.rubyonrails.org

10/05/06 @ 11:13

Comment from: Serge Tarkovski [Visitor]

What are you requirements for the site and what are your goals?
For simple sites I can recommend SAPID - http://sapid.sf.net

10/05/06 @ 12:26

Comment from: Mark Kowarsky [Member]

Seemant,

I currently don't possess the coding skills to user django or rails, but I will look into them and maybe learn :)

10/05/06 @ 12:30

Comment from: Mark Kowarsky [Member]

Serge,

Currently I don't have any clear goals or requirements for the site. It simply needs to be a place where I (and others) can organise Gentoo related social/development meetings. Basically, it needs to be low-maintance, sexy and easy to use.

10/05/06 @ 12:32

Comment from: jINKs [Visitor]

You could also give DokuWiki (http://wiki.splitbrain.org/doku.php) a try. Seems to be nice an clean and offers a lot of plugins (even for blogging and such).
Also, if you are able to use Python on your webspace, MoinMoin would be my favourite option.

10/05/06 @ 13:06

Comment from: Corey Shields [Visitor]

· http://staff.osuosl.org/~cshields

Drupal++.. When considering Drupal, do take a browse through the modules on the drupal.org site. Drupal itself is a platform, and the power behind it lies in the modules allowing more cool functionality. Plus, the 4.7 release has been a huge leap for the project. See a post of mine on some of the pros/cons of 4.7: http://staff.osuosl.org/~cshields/?p=150

Cheers!

disclaimer - I work for the OSL, and we host drupal. I am not a drupal developer. I have deployed a few drupal sites, including the migration to drupal for osuosl.org

10/05/06 @ 20:11

Comment from: Stuart Herbert [Visitor]

· http://blog.stuartherbert.com/

Hrm, you haven't said what you plan on using the website for, which makes it a bit tricky to provide a good recommendation :)

I'd recommend Drupal; it'll grow as the site grows, and it'll allow you to make the site a great portal for Gentoo in Australia. There's nearly 200 plugins for it last time I counted, and they have one of the better track records on security.

Ubuntu use moinmoin (python-based wiki), which is quite nice. We could always use a Gentoo theme for that :)

Best regards,
Stu

10/05/06 @ 20:42

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