Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-19 Thread Benjamin Horst
Andrea, On Oct 16, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> as the question "what cms to choose" now comes up more often, I think >> it's best to just setup some demo-sites to compare them. > > (Oops, my message from last week didn't make it to the list, my fault..

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-18 Thread Benjamin Horst
Andrea, On Oct 16, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> I'd be happy if someone else could do this for drupal or whatever >> other CMS you think should be in the closer choice. > > Got it! Yes, I understand there are only words above, and you would like to > see a concrete, dedicated,

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-16 Thread James Benstead
np. Any Drupal people on the list might be interested in http://drupal.org/node/940718, where coordination for Views 3 development is taking place. J. On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Keith Williams < kwilli...@thoughtfarmproductions.com> wrote: > I did setup a website to start to make a demo,

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Christian Lohmaier wrote: as the question "what cms to choose" now comes up more often, I think it's best to just setup some demo-sites to compare them. (Oops, my message from last week didn't make it to the list, my fault... resending now, edited to reflect current state of the thread; sorry,

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-16 Thread Keith Williams
I did setup a website to start to make a demo, but I'll only release the link to the person making the demo at this time. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:28 PM, James Benstead wrote: > Views 2 is not supported by D7. Views 3 is currently in dev but has some > serious financial support from http://www

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-15 Thread James Benstead
Views 2 is not supported by D7. Views 3 is currently in dev but has some serious financial support from http://www.io1.biz/. When are you planning to launch the website? On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Keith Williams < kwilli...@thoughtfarmproductions.com> wrote: > P.S. I would stick with Drup

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-15 Thread Keith Williams
P.S. I would stick with Drupal 6 now, Drupal 7 isn't out and some of the stuff isn't all done yet for the needed contributed modules. ALlthough we can see what is working for 7 and make a judgement, i'm not sure what the state of views is for 7. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Keith Williams <

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-15 Thread Keith Williams
We can work on it sometime this weekend. I have a server. The main issue that i'm having is that I have a TON of projects to do and time is getting tight. I really want to do this demo because I think based on all the discussion the only thing that is going ot do all this is Drupal. Drupal has

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-15 Thread Benjamin Horst
Keith, On Oct 12, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Keith Williams wrote: > Yes. I'll put this together by midnight tomorrow. I have a lot of projects > but can carve out sometime between 9:30-12 tomorrow to do this. It's not > going to be themed, but I can put the content in and maybe add something > that de

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-12 Thread Keith Williams
another 2 cents on the Drupal... I'm not a developer for open document although who knows... Drupal is a rocking repository for information because of SOLR+Taxonomy functionality and views. Building functionality to publish documents into drupal along the line of sharepoint would be awesome. Usi

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-12 Thread Carlos Jenkins
Hi Christian and dear community, > thanks for the reply, especially for the scrrenshots :-) You're welcome Christian. >>> [user-friendly URLS] > Judging from the links, it still appeared to me that you need to do > stuff manually/you're limited to whatever pattern is defined. / you're > not fre

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-12 Thread Keith Williams
Yes. I'll put this together by midnight tomorrow. I have a lot of projects but can carve out sometime between 9:30-12 tomorrow to do this. It's not going to be themed, but I can put the content in and maybe add something that demonstrates Drupal's community features. On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:2

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-12 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Carlos, thanks for the reply, especially for the scrrenshots :-) On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Carlos Jenkins wrote: > Hi Christian and everybody, I'm glad to help. > >>> [user-friendly URLS] >> [...] >> Not sure whether it 100%covers the requirement, but surely >90% > > What still not cov

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-12 Thread Benjamin Horst
Keith, On Oct 12, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Keith Williams wrote: > Oh, I've been using Drupal for about 4+ years and know just about every > aspect of the system from theming to module development to performance. I'm > not an expert at it but I can at least show you some "cool" stuff it does. > I'd be

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-12 Thread Keith Williams
Oh, I've been using Drupal for about 4+ years and know just about every aspect of the system from theming to module development to performance. I'm not an expert at it but I can at least show you some "cool" stuff it does. I'd be willing to do this for a group of people using web conferencing, if

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-12 Thread Keith Williams
I'd set up a demo, if you send me what the requirements are. I can probably do this in a day or two. You seem to be fairly set on silver stripe and if thats what you want then by all means do that. If you want a demo of Drupal and a site to kick around let me know. I can even show you how to us

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-12 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Keith, On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Keith Williams wrote: > [...] > I would set out some tasks that the CMS will need to facilitate and judge > from that. See the start of the thread. >  I also think that you will find that using Drupal's solr search > and integrated commenting / discuss

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-12 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Benjamin, On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Benjamin Horst wrote: > On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > One demo just isn't enough to be sure! I think trying out a new CMS is a > major project risk. This is true for any CMS. >> Well, I disagree. If it is so complicate

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-12 Thread Drew Jensen
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 08:39 +0200, Per Eriksson wrote: > > Drew Jensen skrev 2010-10-12 07:15: > > Please - before this goes further could someone take the time to put > > together, on the wiki I suppose, a page where we list WHAT it is we are > > going to do with the CMS. > > I started something

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-11 Thread Per Eriksson
Hi Drew, Drew Jensen skrev 2010-10-12 07:15: YES I've been tring to catch up on the email and folks are tossing out solutions but yet to see anyone put down what problems the solutions are going to solve. Will there be the same rigid project structures as in the OO.o site/organization? (not

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-11 Thread Carlos Jenkins
Hi Christian and everybody, I'm glad to help. >> [user-friendly URLS] > [...] > Not sure whether it 100%covers the requirement, but surely >90% What still not covered? To search for it. > >> * Support for Translations > What I meant is that the system should keep track of the translations, >

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-11 Thread Drew Jensen
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 23:51 -0400, Keith Williams wrote: > I would set out some tasks that the CMS will need to facilitate and judge > from that. YES I've been tring to catch up on the email and folks are tossing out solutions but yet to see anyone put down what problems the solutions are goin

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-11 Thread Keith Williams
I really think you need to do some side by side comparisons. You can dress Drupal up in any kind of clothes you want, so I don't think visual appeal should be a factor. I would set out some tasks that the CMS will need to facilitate and judge from that. I also think that you will find that using

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> What is our current list of CMSs? I believe it is at least these: Drupal, >> SilverStripe, Plone, >> WordPress. > > Well, WordPress is not on my (personal) list, it has been mentioned in > the wiki thread, but in my eyes, it is a blog pla

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-11 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Benjamin, *, On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Benjamin Horst wrote: > Sorry my response is a bit delayed. It's tough to keep up with the pace of > things in the LibO community right now! (This is good for us though!) Further > responses inline below. Well, that's true for all of us :-) > O

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-11 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Carlos, *; On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Carlos Jenkins wrote: > 2010/10/7 Christian Lohmaier > >> [static pages] > http://www.bestofdrupal.com/boost-static-page-caching-drupal.html > http://drupal.org/project/boost Thanks, so that point seems to be covered. >> [user-friendly URLS] > Tho

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-11 Thread Carlos Jenkins
Hi everybody, thanks for good work. I'be also setup a lot of sites on Drupal, the drush utility is the best out there, from my point of view. I'll try to answer some questions on this e-mail. First of all, sometimes we prefer to call Drupal a framework, rather a CMS, or a Framework-CMS. Out of the

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
Sorry my response is a bit delayed. It's tough to keep up with the pace of things in the LibO community right now! (This is good for us though!) Further responses inline below. On Oct 7, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > I started this thread to > a) collect requirements for a cm

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-07 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Bernjamin, *, On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Benjamin Horst wrote: > > I read your full email and don't appreciate the generalization and assumption > that I did not. I apologize if I did insult you/hurt your feelings with that statement. It surely wasn't my intention. > [top-posting/Fullq

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-07 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Jonathan, On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Jonathan Zacsh wrote: > [...] > This seems to just clarify my point. You (possibly) haven't any > knowledge of zikula or drupal: in the same way that you haven't enough > knowledge to set it up, how can you predict what its _capable_ of > being setup f

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-07 Thread Benjamin Horst
Christian: I read your full email and don't appreciate the generalization and assumption that I did not. Regarding top or bottom posting, there are many different personal preferences on this and I try to do what seems most suitable to readers. In a thread of emails, it's faster to see new co

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-07 Thread Jonathan Zacsh
Thanks for the reply, >> Or do you mean caching? > > I mean pregenerated html that could be served by apache or whatever > other webserver alone. > The website will not be the only purpose of thesite, so it should play > nice with ressources. Yes, drupal does this. It also natively includes cachi

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-07 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Jonathan, *; On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:17 PM, jzacsh wrote: > Do you really want "static" html files? Static as in "have it look for a pregenerated copy, if present serve that, otherwise generate it and hand it out" > Or do you mean caching? I mean pregenerated html that could be served by a

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-07 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Benjamin, *, On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Benjamin Horst wrote: > [...] > Of the platforms mentioned so far in this thread, Drupal is the only name I > recognized. > Drupal is also used already for the OOo Extensions and Templates sites, And those are sites with notorious performance issu

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-07 Thread Benjamin Horst
nvolved Drupal developers to come pitch in here :) > Jonathan Zacsh > http://jzaksh.com/ > 732.660.8184 > > -Original Message- > From: Christian Lohmaier > Sender: lohma...@googlemail.com > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 08:38:56 > To: > Reply-To: website@libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-07 Thread jzacsh
email.com Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 08:38:56 To: Reply-To: website@libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing Hi *, as the question "what cms to choose" now comes up more often, I think it's best to just setup some demo-sites to compare them

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-07 Thread Mike Houben
Hi I think TDF will not become an OpenID provider... There are many sites out there which provides an ID service. And our goal is not to become like them. We provide the best possible Textediting software which is out there. M 2010/10/7 Christian Lohmaier > > Hi Volker, *, > > On Thu, Oct 7,

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-07 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Volker, *, On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Volker Merschmann wr ote: > 2010/10/7 Christian Lohmaier : >> >> I'm currently evaluating silverstripe, and so far it seems to be good en ogh: >> >> Major points any CMS must fulfill: >> > [..] > What about signing in  through OpenID ? Well, then the

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-06 Thread Volker Merschmann
Hi, thank you for this first proposals. I have some things to comment. 2010/10/7 Christian Lohmaier : > > I'm currently evaluating silverstripe, and so far it seems to be good enogh: > > Major points any CMS must fulfill: > [..] What about signing in through OpenID ? > > Those are the basic req

Re: [libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-06 Thread Traduction.BIZ
Hi, :-) It seems to me that the Fedora Core documentation project has good experience with Zikula (http://zikula.org), which meets all the needs you mention and notably has mature and well-integrated forum and Wiki add-ons. The permissions system is powerful and flexible, although not for a beginn

[libreoffice-website] CMS requirements / suitability testing

2010-10-06 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, as the question "what cms to choose" now comes up more often, I think it's best to just setup some demo-sites to compare them. I'm currently evaluating silverstripe, and so far it seems to be good enogh: Major points any CMS must fulfill: * Create static pages In the past, on the OpenOffi