Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference site backend

[Alex Armstrong]

Cary, I sense I have upset you. I don't think I bashed or promoted 
anything, but I could mistaken. In any case, I certainly I did not mean 
to upset you and I'm really sorry about that.

Let me go back to the beginning: I am fact-gathering CMSs and plugins 
for building a conference and community site (two different projects, 
happening in that order) for a consortium.

Any and all suggestions are very welcome.

Alex



On 10/16/2014 10:17 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:
It appears that you are bashing Drupal because of your experience with an
old version, and that you want to promote CUNY's WordPress Commons in a
Box. You are drawing a conclusion — perhaps that Wordpress is "better" —
although I am not sure how you get there.

I make a fair chunk of my living working on Drupal projects in the
library/academic/non-profit space, and I am deeply involved with the Drupal
project, but I do not feel that WordPress is "the competition". If I bid
Drupal for a CMS and lose to Wordpress or another FOSS CMS, I see that as a
win. As a true believer in free and open-source software, I see the
competition as the expensive closed source, lock-in systems.

I prefer Drupal to WordPress, because my company builds complex systems
that often integrate with external services, and Drupal provides a much
more robust set of tools for to build on. If someone else has already built
a great system that suits your purpose in WordPress, then the toolset is
not an issue. You can certainly build great tools in WordPress.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Alex Armstrong <alehand...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Thanks Mark. Both of these look promising.

Cary, I wasn't trying to tar COD. (That's a nice verb right there :)
My comment about the table of unfair feature comparison was about this
design pattern in general. I probably should have kept my opinions to
myself in this context.

I am little biased against Drupal, which has to do with my own
background: I've never used anything later than Drupal 6!

We're also looking into platforms for building academic communities or
communities in higher ed contexts. The bigwig in this area is CUNY's
Commons in a Box, which is WordPress-powered.

I'm not aware of something as full-featured and actively-maintained,
whether open source or not -- but please correct me if I'm wrong.
Hence my gentle instistence on WordPress.

(I was planning to ask about the academic communities as a seperate
question, which I may do anyway, depending on who bites in this thread
and as I wrap up my own research.)

Alex


On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Cary Gordon <listu...@chillco.com>
wrote:
There is also Able Organizer, a new CRM distribution for Drupal that has
events in its protfolio. I have not had much opportunity to work with it,
yet. https://www.drupal.org/project/ableorganizer
Drupal COD is well established. I wouldn't tar COD for some external BS.
That makes no sense. We use it for out local Drupal events.
On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:06 AM, Alex Armstrong <alehand...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks for pitching in. COD looks good.

On their site (http://usecod.com) I found the obligatory table of
unfair feature comparisons. One of these is to an out-of-date WordPress
plugin.
Any WP suggestions?

('m not partial, but as of earlier today it looks like I might be using
it for other, but affiliated reasons.)
Alex



On 10/15/2014 05:34 PM, Clapp, Sharon B. (Library) wrote:
Someone has mentioned Drupal's Conference Organizing Distribution,
right?https://www.drupal.org/project/cod
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference site backend

Let me try and ask this again, with less ambiguity:

What built-in CMS functionality or plugin have you used to assist you
in managing a conference schedule and registration?
Among other things, I'm in the market for a new CMS. So rather than
the specialized tool that Francis suggested, I'm looking for a
multi-purpose platform or a platform I can wrangle to serve multiple
purposes.
P.S. Confusingly, I switched my CODE4LIB subscription to a different
email.
Alex



On October 10, 2014 4:23:57 PM EEST, Francis Kayiwa<kay...@pobox.com>
wrote:
On 10/10/2014 09:13 AM, Alex Armstrong wrote:

  Hi list,

  Not exactly related to libraries, but:

  I'm putting together a site for the annual conference of a library
consortium. Last year we had paired a static site with an event
service
  (Sched) to manage the schedule and provide workshop sign ups. This
time  we'd like to move everything under one umbrella.

  Any recommendations for a conference backend?

  I'm looking for an open source solution I can deploy on a shared
hosting  plan. I'm not picky about the CMS. The current iteration is
put together  locally using a static site generator, so I can switch
to whatever.
Give Open Conference a looksie

https://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/

Cheers,
./fxk


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Alex



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Alex