On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event [LWN.net]

On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event

Posted May 2, 2010 22:20 UTC (Sun) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041)
In reply to: On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event by k8to
Parent article: On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event

On a traditional wiki links are MadeLinkThis and external links are http://made.like.this.example.com/foo

That's definitely another strike against it in my book. In addition, the point remains that unless the document that you are trying to create is designed to have wiki-like public editability, there is no reason to limit your search for CMS software to the wiki-only subset of available projects. Any more than there is to limit your search to blog-based packages like Wordpress. Yes, you can create good static, non-blog sites with Wordpress. But if you don't do a serious comparison against Drupal, Joomla, Scoop, Xaraya, TYPO3 -- and the dozens and dozens of others -- you make a poorly-informed decision. And you miss out on functionality that you find out further down the road that you need.

Nate

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