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TWiki

Cato — 2003-06-01T09:40:31+00:00

Glad to see you mentioned Wikis - they are not quite as popular as weblogs but they are more flexible in many ways. For example, with TWiki you can build knowledge bases, discussion sites or bug tracking systems, and there's a plugin API enabling plugins for Extreme Programming project support, action tracking, spreadsheets, database access, and so on. Everything is revision controlled and authenticated, or you can leave it open and more like traditional Wiki systems. TWiki is popular in intranets and Internet sites - see http://twiki.org/ for more details.

Why No Python?

mly — 2003-06-01T01:53:18+00:00

Poor homework by the editor? ;)

Just look at the talks in the Zope track at the upcoming EuroPython conference. http://www.europython.org

There are a whole bunch of CMSs based on Zope there.

Plone is maybe the most wellknown, but there also Silva, icoya, Kontentor, IKAARO etc.

Another Zope based contender is Easy Publisher, http://www.easypublisher.com/

Just wait a while, and there will be a few based on Twisted! See http://www.twistedmatrix.com/

WebGUI

Baylink — 2003-05-31T03:53:48+00:00

...and it turns out that I misunderstood the situation -- whyinhell would I believe a *Slashdot* poster? :-)

The restrictions really do amount mostly to copyright, they're just phrased poorly.

My public apologies to JT and the PlainBlack crowd for muddying the water further.
-- j

WebGUI

Baylink — 2003-05-30T17:40:54+00:00

What timing for this story...

I hadn't realized that this conference was coming up, but I've been
shopping this month for such a system myself, and I'm tentatively picking
WebGUI.

There's some fuss about the "NDA"-ness of the documentation licensing and
whether that's a) ethical for GPL'd code and b) productive, but I'm
opening a dialogue on it, anyway.

It's pretty damned spiffy looking, and the company that produced it (Plain
Black Software) had the sense to hire a designer for it's demo website...
which is something almost none of the other OCMS's that I've seen have
done. And it makes a difference...

Why No Python?

marduk — 2003-05-30T03:59:22+00:00

They didn't mention Plone Plone is a very cabaple CMS based on the Zope framework.

Why No Python?

kbob — 2003-05-29T22:47:20+00:00

I'm just wondering why none of the systems on the short list were implemented in Python. It seems to me that Python is eminently suitable to the task, but nobody is using it. Why?

K<bob>

Open source CMS roundup: Don't overlook typo3!

nickt — 2003-05-29T15:26:07+00:00

I know that not everyone's favourite CMS will get picked, but having just
spent a few weeks reviewing open source CMS I've come up with typo3 -
http://typo3.com/ - as a leading contender. Powerful, well-documented
and easily compares with commercial offerings in terms of feature set.
Installs and sets up very easily on any Apache/PHP/MySQL platform.

- Nick

Open source content management systems roundup

jonny — 2003-05-29T11:04:29+00:00

You might want to have a look at http://ariadne.muze.nl, which is my personal favourite...

and LWN.net?

hummassa — 2003-05-29T10:12:29+00:00

It does run on Quixote, isn't it right? Someone inside should make a comment about it.

Open source content management systems roundup

ecureuil — 2003-05-29T09:40:05+00:00

If you speak French, spip is a very good, simple PHP+MySQL content
management system. It has a strong community, a good admnistration
interface, is very popular in France and has good and extensive
documentation. I'm using it to build the website of my research team and
I'm very happy with it.

www.uzine.net/spip

'Roundup'

miallen — 2003-05-29T03:01:33+00:00

If you're looking for something more like a bug tracker that integrates with e-mail there's 'Roundup'. Very simple, no database backend necessary, written in python, intuitive to use, and easy to modify. Doesn't look like there's been any recent development though. Shame.