Hello!
I don't know a better place to discuss this, please tell me if you know
(mailing lists preferred).
Here at ETH Zurich (swiss federal institute of technology) we want to build
a daily online journal. One of the suggestions (mine) is to build it with
perl. It should be based on XML, and the idea is to make also the authoring
/ workflow / content management / user management parts of the system web
based. The content should be modular: pictures, text, audio etc. should all
be independant content elements with their own history, preferably with
possibility to spawn children from parent elements (i.e. original picture
and derived lower resolution pictures). For publishing, several elements
should be composed together. Another non-trivial part is a good user- and
group or role based user management. Suggestion for Text markup is a (pod
like) plain text markup which is converted to XML for storage, with the
possible option to fully go with XML when editors are really ready. For
publishing of the articles I'm planning to use in some way AxKit (source
should be taken from database), and Mason for the administration parts.
Now maybe that's a bit a big project - I don't even really know yet. (My
estimation for the whole project is 280 days of work - I'm hoping to solve
this with 5 programmers until the end of november.. never done something
that big :-(). Now what I would like to know:
- is anything like the mentioned things already existent? (mainly: database
based content management system, and something of a sophisticated user
management) (We would probably even pay for it if that matters)
- are things like these in the interest of other people, too? (Some weeks
ago, in the discussion about templating, someone mentioned Zope and that
perl should have something like that...) Would it be possible to get
together and build such parts as open source? Preferably in a good modular
fashion so more people can profit from it..
Maybe someone of you knows Vignette Storyserver? We have the option to get
the source code of a Storyserver based online journal - although it
requires modifications, and it's not XML based yet. So an idea is also to
port this (TCL code) to perl, and reimplement required Storyserver
functionality in perl. Any comments on that? (I don't know Storyserver yet)
The reason for not using Zope, OpenCMS or Enhydra, is a) I don't know them
really :-(, b) some downsides are visible when looking at these solutions
(i.e. Zope's user interface seems rather sub-optimal for use by
journalists, especially as long as it's html based). (And we haven't
succeeded to get OpenCMS to run until now)
Thanks for any comments!
Christian Jaeger
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