Hi, :-) There is also the question of who would administer a Drupal site. I'm not currently aware of any candidates with the right profile, unless Christian was willing to do it.
Administering one of TDF's Web resources requires a lot of technical knowledge and experience. It's not the same as simply setting-up a site, theming it, installing a choice of modules and away we go. The code base behind the website is managed via a TDF-managed git repository. You can't just tweak and edit files on the server. The admin has to have the knowledge to be able to configure site modules in a way that properly interacts and works with the server and other TDF resources possibly affected. Christian will be able to tell you a lot more about those technical aspects. The admin has to be someone known and trusted by TDF and Ooodevs De, because he/she will have access to important project resources. Even if one found someone from outside with the necessary knowledge and experience of Drupal *and* of system admin, that person would still have to go through at least the "qualification" period (currently stated as 3 months in the soon-to-be-applicable community bylaws [1]) before being a possible candidate. >From the past discussions of Drupal, I'm not aware of any candidates for the job - unless Christian himself were to take on the task. By candidate, I mean someone with the necessary technical qualifications *plus* the motivation, desire and long-term commitment to steering and handling the changeover, and to dealing with the site administration on an on-going basis. In addition, before being adopted as LibO's new CMS, a fully-operational, full-featured demo has to be offered for *thorough prior evaluation*. It's not enough to be evangelizing Drupal and saying it *can* do this and it *can* do that. It has to be proven and concretely demonstrated that it's a superior choice and that TDF/LibO really *needs* it. True meritocracy is supposed to be the driving force behind this project. No official decision has yet been taken by the SC/BoD (i.e. via a vote that complies with the community bylaws), so Drupal is presently a possible choice for consideration, but not more. You only have to read the SC meeting minutes [2] to be clear about that: "vote if to start with Silverstripe or Drupal result: 6 for Silverstripe vs. 2 for Drupal -> 2/3rd majority for Silverstripe reason to vote for Silverstripe was in most cases that a fast go-live is expected and that there are people to do administration and take care about content reason to vote for Drupal was the higher flexibility (and therefore better long-term solution) as well as having several people with good knowledge about drupal suggestion is that the website team should do some more planning, what we need regarding website, additional services, and see how this can be achieved with drupal. We see the need of a more sophisticated CMS in the future." Let me say that it's not that I'm against the adoption of Drupal per se. But I think that it would have to be proven that it's in the community's interests, and I would not like to see the project bulldozed through hype, disinformation and hypothetical claims. [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws [2] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings#Minutes_2010-10-27 David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***