Joomla! choice (Was: Re: New Website)

[Alan Dayley]

Jason Hayes said:
> Re the website: Was there any discussion on why Joomla was used as the
> CMS?

Not online except within the PLUG Steering Committee.

> I had pretty much decided on using Drupal for an upcoming site design
> project, but then noticed PLUG had used Joomla.
>
> I searched the PLUG discussion archives but did not notice any
> discussion on the choice of CMS software. All that I saw was a note that
> the site designers had used Joomla (no discussion on why they made that
> choice).
>
> Was there something about Joomla that made it stand out, or was it a "6
> of one, half a dozen of another" kind of thing?

What made Joomla! stand out is that, of the Steering Committee members who
had an opinion, two were more familiar with it and the other voted for
Drupal.  Mostly it came down to me.  Being the one in charge of it, I was
already familiar with Joomla! and had no experience with Drupal.

The discussion was something like:
Me: "We need something since the current postNuke is really broken."
Me: "We have a host!  Cool!"
One: "I think Drupal."
Me: "I know Joomla!"
Two: "I like Joomla!"
Me: "I'll do Joomla!"
One: "Fine."
Two: "Cool."

You could say it was "sixes"[1].

Alan

[1] "Sixes" is a short way of saying "6 of one, half a dozen of another."