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[der.hans]

Am 01. Sep, 2002 schwätzte Derek Neighbors so:

> I couldnt agree more.  My first question when hearing PostNuke, was
> Why?  I can speak from minor experience here.  For GNUe we used postNuke
> for quite some time (and its a lovely little system, I have few real
> gripes for it).  However, it was just overkill.  I think it will be the
> same for the PLUG website, I dont think we need something that big and
> cumbersome for what we do.

I don't care too much, but we have several people between PLUG and AZPHP who
are familiar with PostNuke and recommend it. I tried it once. It wouldn't
install. PHPNuke went in without a hitch. Neither would do what I wanted, so
I'm not using them :).

We need something that'll make it easier to post events and news. It would
also be good to grab other snippets of info. Maybe we can grab weather
channel stuff for Phoenix and talk about how hot GNU/Linux is. Whatever.

The two suggestions we've gotten thus far are PostNuke and build it from
scratch. At that point I'm more interested in PostNuke and putting efforts
into making it more customizable, yet less clunky.

The mirroring issues you had with GNUe might be a problem. I think we can
overcome that, though.

> I dont think the 'website' is the place to collaborate.  I think that
> email lists and irc are much more conducive to real time collaboration
> and for setting up things like installfests and such.  The website
> basically becomes information presentation and not idea exchange.  In
> which case phpNuke seems like a Forumla One car on a go kart track. :)

I don't want the collaboration stuff and won't use it myself. My comments on
news articles will be to the mailing list. If people really want a slow,
bulky web interface we should hook the mailing list up to some web-gateway
tool. It should be read only unless they log in or we'll get SPAMmed.

ciao,

der.hans
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