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AID: Content Management Systems for the AID Project
From: mike2004 mike2004
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:33:03 -0800
: Sent via the Art Interface Device mailing list: aid@interaccess.org : Use your "Reply All" to reply to the list, "Reply" for private response Here are the results of my reasearch into Content Management Systems for the AID Project. Mike My favorites are marked with *> before their entry in the list. They are in decending order: Drupal TYPO3 Metadot WebGUI Plone I used the following link with the search criteria that follows. http://www.cmsreview.com/CMSSearch.html Search Criteria: License: "GPL" CMS Type: "General CMS" "Front End" "Editor" "News Portal" "Blog" "Wiki" Computer Platform: "GNU/Linux" Web Server: "Apache" Application Framework: "PHP" "Python" CMS Framework: "Zope" Programming Language: "PHP" Database: "MySQL" "PostgreSQL" Typical Install Time: "Hours" Who Installs: "Customer IT" Documentation: "Online" APC ActionApps is an online content management system (CMS). All CMSs allow authorized users to easily update the content of their website with just a web browser. APC ActionApps is different because of its configurable output -- ActionApps can automate and simplify complex portals and websites, and seamlessly integrate with existing designs. APC ActionApps also has great 'content pooling' and moderation tools that make it well suited to teams of volunteers and staff working together to publish information. http://www.apc.org/actionapps/ Biflux is an XML-based CMS with a WYSIWYG XML Editor. The custom backend (called "popoon") is loosely based on Apache cocoon, but written in PHP. http://www.bitflux.ch/developer/cms/introduction.html *> Drupal is an open-source platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes. Equipped with a powerful blend of features and configurability, Drupal can support a diverse range of web projects ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven sites. http://www.drupal.org/ eNvolution Envolution is a Content Management System which allows easy management and publication of information from a simple Web browser. In addition to managing content, it can be configured to allow Website visitors to submit articles, comment on previously submitted articles, participate in surveys or polls, and manage their own accounts with simple registration and account management tools. eNvolution is an International Network of sites with a large and diverse community spread across multiple sites. The eNvolution community is not concentrated to only one site. This redundancy offers a degree of protection from a single point of contact failure which may be common with other projects. It is very important for eNvolution to speak to a diverse community. A lot of language possibilities means having many support and development sites for a global community. eNvolution is more than just www.envolution.com eNvolution is a world community. In a sense eNvolution is nobody but you! http://www.envolution.com/index.php?name=AboutEnvo&file=features *> Metadot Portal Server gives non technical users the ability build powerful websites and portals to do to point and click content management and collaboration, all in a familiar, browser-based environment. Packed with rich features, like news and file management, discussion forum, survey, calendar and more, Metadot is a Swiss-army knife for people who want build and maintain their own website without a webmaster. http://www.metadot.com/metadot/index.pl?id=2037 Midgard is an Open Source Content Management Framework based on the popular Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. Midgard's key benefits include high performance, robustness, flexible templating system, internationalization and the MidCOM component model. Midgard is available both as compilable Apache and PHP modules, and as a pure-PHP implementation, Midgard Lite. http://www.midgard-project.org/ PHPmole Desktop IDE for developing web applications with PHP and the Midgard application server. The PHPmole toolkit provides Midgard developers with a freely-available application comparable to DreamWeaver and MS Visual Studio, with additional content management functionalities. License: GNU General Public License Environment: Desktop (GTK+ and Win32) http://www.akbkhome.com/Projects/Phpmole%2DIDE/ * Note - no postings on site in 2003 PHPnuke Games orientation http://phpnuke.org/ *> Plone Plone is built on top of the open source application server Zope and the accompanying Content Management Framework which has thousands of developers around the world supporting it. Plone is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities. A versatile software product like Plone can be used in a myriad of ways. Look through the sites that use Plone section to see a variety of ways people have implemented Plone and Zope solutions. http://www.plone.org/ http://demo.plone.org/ What Database does Plone use? Community Enabler is a package based on Plone that adds value to community-based websites. http://www.communitye.net/ PostNuke PostNuke is a PHPNuke fork. It is a content management (news-style) system written in PHP with a mySQL backend, focusing on the style, appearance, and functionality. http://www.postnuke.com/ Tiki Tiki is full featured content management system suited to many types of online communities. Features include news, topics, wiki, polls, trackers, image galleries, forums, blogs, webmail, and much more. Using PHP, MySQL and Smarty. http://tikiwiki.org/ *> TYPO3 TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules. http://typo3.com/ http://typo3.com/Demo.1245.0.html *> WebGUI WebGUI (pronounced web-gooey) is one of the most popular open source content management systems (CMS) available today. It is downloaded over 5,000 times per month and is in use as an Intranet application framework in several Fortune 500 firms in the United States. WebGUI is a content management platform built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content, to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of the busy IT Staff. http://www.plainblack.com/webgui Xaraya Xaraya is extensible, open source software written in PHP and licensed under the GNU General Public License. Xaraya utilizes robust permissions, data management and multilingual systems to dynamically integrate and manage content. Xaraya's modular, database independent architecture introduces tools which separate form, function, content, and design. Xaraya delivers the requisite infrastructure for a fully dynamic multi-platform Content Management Solution (CMS). With over forty active developers spanning five continents and over ten languages, the Xaraya Development Team is a blend of some of the best and brightest developers found in the open source community. We expect the best of one another. As a result, you can expect the best from Xaraya. http://www.xaraya.com/ _______-_________-_________-_________-_________-_________-__________ ___________________________ A microcontroller platform that will / \ A I D \ allow artworks to interact with people ( /\/ ) Art Interface Device ) and the physical environment. GPL'ed \___/_______________________/ http://www.interaccess.org/aid/ _______-_________-_________-_________-_________-_________-__________ : messages saved at http://www.interaccess.org/aid/list : unsubscribe/help requests to mailto:Majordomo@interaccess.org