yes - all done!  What's next on coworking.com?

On 2010-02-19, at 11:08 AM, Tony Bacigalupo wrote:

> Alex, thanks for rocking this and documenting it as you go. This is a good 
> start and I look forward to this evolving in a healthy way.
> 
> Let's move the discussion on w/Drupal vs WP vs Emacs vs Yahoo Store vs 
> Zombo.com off-list, yes? 
> 
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> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, TCS <c...@thecreativespace.ca> wrote:
> Yep.  Both platforms have come a long way.  We are impressed with each and 
> try to fit the framework with the clint needs.  Thus far for CMS we're about 
> 80/20 between Drupal instals and WP.  http://www.symfony-project.org/ looks 
> good too.
> peace,
> Chad
> 
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> On 2010-02-19, at 10:25 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
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>> On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:25 AM, TCS wrote:
>> 
>>> We realize there's more users - I wasn't counting users, rather considering 
>>> the overall expandability and multifunctional use of a website tool.  It's 
>>> not the easiest to use as a developer, but once you get it, it is robust!  
>>> Just thinking if you want to create a community environment and build on a 
>>> more robust tool, Drupal's great.  We love Wordpress too!  
>> 
>> On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Patrick wrote:
>>> Wordpress is a blog platform that can be used as a CMS, not an actual
>>> CMS ;)
>>> 
>>> Just teasing.
>> 
>> 
>> Yes mine was some as light hearted teasing as well. Glad you took it as as 
>> such. :)
>> 
>> Still, "many a truth said in jest" as they say. I really have seen people 
>> have a lot more difficulty getting Drupal projects completed vs. WordPress 
>> projects and then training users to understand Drupal is yet another 
>> complication where it's pretty easy for users to get WordPress.  As way to 
>> explain and a rule of thumb I tell prospective users that the minimum 
>> WordPress project cost they'd pay a local consultant for a professional 
>> design and a bit of custom functionality developed in PHP and/or jQuery is 
>> about $2500 vs. the minimum Drupal is around $10k.  Drupal typically makes 
>> the first 85% easy but the last 15% can be very difficult (and hence time 
>> consuming/expensive.)
>> 
>> FWIW a year ago WordPress didn't have the feature set needed in core+plugins 
>> but does now.  A partner and I are actually launching a conference in 
>> Atlanta called "The Business of WordPress" to highlight how to use it for 
>> local businesses in part because I want them to see how effective it is now.
>> 
>> -Mike Schinkel
>> Ignition Alley Atlanta Coworking
>> http://ignitionalley.com
>> 
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