[Mapserver-users] CMS Shootout

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Yup, mapbuilder, as part of sourceforge, uses Drupal.  But I haven't had
any experience with it :(

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bartvde at xs4all.nl [mailto:bartvde at xs4all.nl] 
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 02:34
> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Cc: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] CMS Shootout
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just curious if you considered Drupal (http://www.drupal.org)?
> 
> Maybe it is interesting to mention the dropouts (CMS's which 
> were mentioned but not selected) and the reason why they were 
> dropped out.
> 
> Tom, do you have any experience with this from your 
> Mapbuilder involvement?
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> > Howdy mapserver'ers.
> >
> > Well, it is time to put up or shut up in the first annual Mapserver 
> > CMS shootout.  That's right, the mapserver community has 
> been looking 
> > at various CMS's as a possible replacement to the current 
> website.  I 
> > have put this WIKI page together to hammer this topic out 
> on, if you 
> > wish.
> >
> > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CMSShootout
> >
> > Currently, we have two entries for this evaluation period.
> >
> > Plone
> >   http://walleye.gis.umn.edu:8080/webdemo/ms_plone
> >
> > TikiWiki
> >   http://maps.lir.be/tiki-index.php
> >
> >
> > (Both CMS's were just put up recently)
> >
> > The purpose of this email is to make sure those folks that want to 
> > participate during this testing period do!  If you have a 
> favorite CMS 
> > you wish to submit for testing, please get involved now!  
> If you want 
> > to test out these CMSs, please do so now!  We (speaking for the 
> > community) would like to be settling on something in the 
> coming weeks 
> > / month(s)...
> >
> > Your best bet is to hang out on the Mapserver IRC channel while you 
> > are playing with the CMS.  Lets hammer out the problems/issues now!
> >
> > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MapServerIrcChannel
> >
> > As an aside.  The purpose of this testing is not to show 
> that one CMS 
> > is better than the other, but which one is:
> >   * going to meet the needs of the growing Mapserver community
> >   * AND has a group of dedicated users ready to work a 
> transition from
> >     an old site to a new CMS.
> >
> > later,
> >   daryl
> >
> > --
> > /**
> >  * Daryl Herzmann (akrherz at iastate.edu)
> >  * Program Assistant -- Iowa Environmental Mesonet
> >  * http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
> >  */
> >
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