If you want something more complex and scalable go with Drupal (and there is a chance that other drupal community members might help you). If you really want to harness the power of the larger community go with wordpress. Movabletype seems to me to be a bad choice just because size of community while if you need something that scale from a functional point of view there will be more support using drupal my 0.0.2 cents Lior
On Oct 17, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all. > > Since I didn't get any reply to my last replies about this topic, I > think I'll > go with MovableType because it what seems to be the best solution at > the > moment. I'll probably install it under http://www.iglu.org.il/mt/ , > etc. > > If you think I'm wrong with this decision and should choose > WordPress or > something else, please reply to my previous replies, and let me know > why I am > wrong. If you agree with my points, also please reply to support me. > But > silence is considered as equivalent to an acceptance. > > So speak now, or forever hold your peace. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > On Thursday 24 Sep 2009 23:56:01 Shlomi Fish wrote: >> Hi Lior! >> >> On Wednesday 23 Sep 2009 20:43:52 Lior Kesos wrote: >>> I think the main issue, which is even more important then security >>> is >>> the size of the potential volunteering base. >>> This issue was demonstrated lately on the work on august penguins >>> site >>> and the work on the hamakor site. >>> I (Drupal Geek and wearer of many drupal shirts) wanted to help >>> build >>> the Hamakor site in Drupal, but eventually Gilad was fed up of me >>> being to busy to actually contribute and thus built it in wordpress. >>> They are WAY more people that can help out based on wordpress and I >>> believe that this should be done in the simplest CMS around with the >>> biggest user base(hence wordpress). >> >> If I understand you correctly, you say that we should pick up the >> dominant >> solution with the largest user base. However, I can say the same >> about >> dominant solutions in other fields such as PHP, MySQL, or Microsoft >> Windows. "Everyone knows Windows, so that's what we should use this >> because it's the dominant solution." >> >> Brain-share in the market is an important consideration, but not >> the only >> one. It's not hard to train people in adding new posts to a >> different CMS >> - it's usually very simple. But we should not give in to the >> prevalence of >> WordPress (or whatever) and not consider solutions that are better, >> just >> because they are less popular. >> >> Please let me know if I understood you. >> >>> There are many people that can subscribe to security rss for >>> wordpress >>> or upgrade the plugin, I think that we are missing is people that >>> will >>> create content and there are many people with that affiliation in >>> the >>> wordpress community. >> >> From my experience, eventually it ends up with very few people >> actively >> maintaining the back-end. I've been trying to get people to clean >> up spam >> from some of the community's MediaWikis (wiki.python.org.il, >> wiki.osdc.org.il, wiki.perl.org.il ,etc.) and so far I've done the >> lion's >> share of the work. >> >> At once point on eskimo (the old host of iglu.org.il) someone >> installed a >> PHP- BB instance under spread.linux.org.il and he didn't have time to >> update it even after I asked him to. I ended up having to completely >> disable the domain there. As expected, there was little there, so >> not a >> lot of harm was done. >> >> Regards, >> >> Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://shlom.in/sussman > > Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. Lior Kesos - http://www.linnovate.net Linnovate - Community Infrastructure Care mail: l...@linnovate.net office: +972 722500881 cell: +972 524305252 skype: liorkesos _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list Discussions@hamakor.org.il http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
