[Conet] Open Source Community Portals / CMSs

[Joe Fortey]

David R. Newman wrote:

> Come along to our presentation in NICVA in Belfast tomorrow. See
> http://www.niosc.org/ .

Would love to!  But rather busy and trying not to spend money on taxi
fees and air travel at the moment....  Thanks for the invite tho.

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

It will be for a two month+ community consultation exercise as part of a
feasibility study I am undertaking, but may spin out into something much
bigger afterwards.

I want something that can be managed easily with plenty of room to grow
and which can be handed over to non-technical folk later on if the
project takes off and it becomes a community-run project.

As to what any given CMS can do for me or the local community - since I
am rather new to CMSs I don't know what I want until I know what is on
offer!  I plan to test a few systems before I commit, but only want to
use open source.

Thanks for any advice.

Joe Fortey