Re: Drupal for 2006.guadec.org

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 17:12 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
> GNOME webhackers, here comes a question from the GUADEC organisation:
> what about using Drupal CMS - http://drupal.org - to manage
> http://2006.guadec.org ?
> 
> 
> Advantages over the default static pages:
> 
> - Database of registered users that could be used for announcements etc
> and be carried over in next editions. Could be expanded with CivicCRM
> features at some point although we don't need this module to start -
> http://drupal.org/node/33464
> 
> - Definition of permissions at a role level i.e. guadec organiser, board
> member, foundation member, registered user, anonymous user...
> 
> - Tasks par role: who can write, edit, delete, read. This ease a lot the
> contributions / evolution of the site and decentralised collaboration.

This isn't really a problem that we've had to solve so far. It's best if
there are no limits (except for spammers) that stop people from
improving the pages.

I'd really like to see an example site (in English) that offers
wiki-like functionality. fridge.ubuntu.com seems to offer almost no
interactivity.

> - a good collection of integrated modules easy to activate/deactive:
> news, forum, books (like wikis), calendar, RSS feeds...
> 
> - Paypal framework to accept payments via credit cards or paypal money
> and prepared for usages such as event registration and merchandasing
> sale. http://drupal.org/project/paypal_framework
> 
> - A wide range of contributed modules available
> http://drupal.org/project/Modules .
> 
> Maybe more.  :)
> 
> 
> Disadvantages: none as far as I see.
> 
> This could also be seen as a test to see if this CMS could be used for
> other things in GNOME. Drupal allows multiple installations sharing
> tables i.e. users.
> 
> We started this discussion in summer but it ended up without a
> resolution. This time we need to get to an agreement because we need to
> set up the site ASAP.
> 
> Thank you.
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