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  • From: jedd <jedd@progsoc.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Software thoughts (Was: Help and conversations for possibility AND action)
  • Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:36:03 +1100

On Saturday 20 January 2007 10:45 pm, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
] Which CMS's (Content Management System) do you recommend?

That's a big question. And it's so hugely dependent on what you
want to achieve, and the skillset(s) available in-house, and/or what
you're willing to adapt to / employ others to assist with.

You mention Drupal - I like this one, and also Joomla (nee Mambo).

ObDisclosure - I like them (primarily) because I've used them, albeit
briefly (and that is a significant influencing factor for most IT
types when talking about software choices) and because they're coded
in PHP (a language I've used and am familiar with (even more ditto)).

As it happens, both of those are written to be modular, that is
you can plug-in all kinds of things, including your own plugins, and
they have lots of community support (so there's lots of ready-rolled
plugins to play with). And, of course, they're free (again, in both
senses of that word) software, and that implies all kinds of handy
community support, which makes life easier.

I've not played with Wordpress. Mediawiki is a wiki rather than
a CMS proper, and my exposure to that is purely at a user level
(via wikipedia).

Here's one back at you (and others) - 'scuse if this doesn't come
out well - earlier today I received a late Christmas gift of a bottle
of something French and pleasantly orange flavoured.

Why are Apples (in the white rather than the red or green sense of
the word) so often perceived as being 'okay' by the Permaculture
community, do you think? I've often wondered about this, but
have yet to formulate a functional theory. At first I thought it was
just the 'be different' attitude, but that doesn't have longevity.
I do some work occasionally for an animation studio, and they're all
uber-Mac-heads -- I put that down to their aesthetics (their in both
contexts, too). PCers tend to be less dazzled by form over function,
so maybe I'm missing something there. It can't just be that Steve
appears cooler than Bill (or that other Steve). (Can it?) There may
be some functionality differences, but that seems to be conceded only
in the ultra-high-end of the graphics niche - far from where most PC
types would position themselves I'd have thought.

Jedd.




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