[NCUC E-team] platform choice

[Brenden Kuerbis]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <
ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:47:30AM -0500, Brenden Kuerbis (
> bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org) wrote:
>
> > I don't recall hearing any discussion that occurred in LA, but a handful
> of
> > suggestions have been made on list regarding content management platform
> > (CMP).   AFAIK, we've raised WordPress, Drupal, Joomla as possibilities.
>
> Yes. See also http://effi.muistio.tieke.fi/59?
> (etherpad is one of the things I'd want in our VPS...)
>
> > The way I look at it, WP is easiest to install, customize
> > (e.g., design) and maintain.
>
> WP is indeed easy and very widely used.
> Drupal is somewhat more powerful but also more complex.
> Other alternatives we've more or less ruled out
> (if only because none of us knows them well enough,
> or in some cases because some of know them too well...).
>
> So, WP is fine with me.
>
> > It supports basically any business function we've talked
> > about (e.g., constituent relationship management (CRM), email lists,
> > project management, event calendar, etc.) via plugins.  Although,
> > honestly, I'm not sure we need more beyond a CMP, CRM, email lists, and
> > perhaps a collaborative document editor capability.
>
> We do need that, I think - but there's an etherpad lite plugin for WP
> (participad). So that's not a problem.
>
> I've been less than impressed with WP's project management tools
> in the past though, but it's been a while, and it does seem
> there're lots of them I've never even tried:
> https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/project-management
> I guess one of those will do for us.
> If not, a separate tool like redmine could be used
> (there're some tools for integrating redmine and WP, too).
>
> Any ideas on how to handle member pages?
>
>
Some ideas:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/

or

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-members/

or

http://wordpress.demo.civicrm.org/wp-login.php  (login/pswd = demo/demo)






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