PLUG website (was Re: class this Wed!)

[David Uhlman]

Can you elaborate on what you hate about postnuke or perhaps propose an
alternative. It seems that the goal is to reduce maintenance overhead, allow
multiple layers or roles of permissions for different forms on contribution.
Must be free software, php based, work with mysql or flatfile, "news type"
content management and ideally a calendar. Also if it can be attractively
themed that would be nice. Should work with IE and Mozilla and hopefully
Konquerer.

There has also been some discussion about being able to manage similar sites
for other local user type groups and consolidate or at least integrate them
to avoid information reentry. I don't think anyone expects that out of the
box or to happen for quite some time though. Personally I also would like
some type of forums system for certain types of information, especially to
contribute and comment to plug based projects.

I am not looking for a flame war,or an I like this, I like that type
discussion. Nor I am voicing my personal opinions about postnuke. I mention
postnuke because my company recently conducted a very in depth consulting
evaluation on open source cm systems (of which an excerpted report will be
available free soon) and post nuke fills adequately many of the criteria I
listed.Given the criteria above or revise them as you see fit, what would
best benefit the plug site, what do you think is a workable solution?

If you are willing to write it from scratch I sincerely doubt that anyone
would mind but if not I don't think realistically that that could happen, so
some sort of existing project would have to be used. Personally I think the
main reason a cm system would be so beneficial is that a tremendous amount
of the organization that goes on is centralized to a few people and occurs
in person to person, private email, or as a sort of best individual effort,
in addition to the list. By introducing a system to organize the information
and processes going on everyone gets a better chance to contribute and
contributions take less time to work into the process. These people can do
more for the community as a whole if they don't have to do grunt work
updating times on websites and such.

Sincerely,
David Uhlman
CTO 50km Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thoreau" <ARader@supportbeam.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 9:26 PM
Subject: RE: class this Wed!


> As far as the website....
> Hate postnuke (with a passion.)  If PLUG wants something similar to
> postnuke, i think the best bet is to write it from scratch.  But that's
just
> my opinion.  =)
>
> Adam Rader