[Conet] Open Source Community Portals / CMSs

[David R. Newman]

Joe Fortey wrote:
> Following the post from Ken Young, does anyone else on the conet list
> have experience of community portals, CMSs, and similar server-side
> systems suitable for community use?
> 
> I am looking at making use of an open source CMS called PHP-Nuke or one
> of its younger syblings (PostNuke and Xoops) and wondered if anyone has
> used any of these, or others and would like to comment on advantages /
> disadvantages, comparisons, etc.

Come along to our presentation in NICVA in Belfast tomorrow. See 
http://www.niosc.org/ . Or if you want the full, exhaustive 
professional low-down go to the Open Source Content Management 
Conference (http://www.oscom.org/). Or read the articles linked 
there, and those on CMS Watch (http://www.cmswatch.com/).

Since there are hundreds of content management systems, it would 
help if you said what you want to use the CMS for.

I would use different systems for campaigning (e.g. 
http://www.greens-in.org/), for supporting group editing of 
documents such a funding proposals (a wiki web such as Tikiwiki), 
for news discussion, and for conventional information sites.

-- 
Dr. David R. Newman, Queen's University Belfast, School of
Management and Economics, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland (UK)
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