[H-GEN] Re: Talk Planning: Content Management, UNIX and You (was: Activitives at Humbug)

[Adrian Sutton]

>> I'd be happy to do a talk on some of the important things to look
>> for from a user point of view (I make a lousy sys-admin) when
>> selecting these types of systems, particularly in choosing between
>> CMS, DMS, wikis, blogs etc.
>
> I'd be interested in that, I'm currently in the process of selecting a
> community portal / CMS.

Sounds like this should go ahead - at this stage I'm not sure when  
I'll be able to get it organized but this email should help make a  
start.

If anyone has a particular system they could do a 5 minute lightning  
talk about (or longer if you'd like) please let me know. Also, if  
there is a system you'd like to know more about please suggest it and  
I'll try to find someone who knows about it and can give a talk.

Some suggestions for systems you might know about and could give a  
brief talk on are below.  If you've setup, maintained or even just  
used any of them and could share your experiences it would be  
appreciated - even if you don't feel it's enough for a talk I may be  
able to collate comments together in a useful way.

Wikis
* DokuWiki
* MediaWiki
* phpWiki
* QwikiWiki
* JSPWiki

Blogs
* BLOG:CMS
* Moveable Type
* WordPress
* Hosted services like Blogger/MySpaces etc
* blosxom

CMS/WCM/Document Management
* Mambo
* Joomla
* Drupal
* Postnuke
* Xaraya

Miscellaneous
* Gallery/Gallery 2
* trac
* phpGroupWare

These are pretty much all opensource but commercial offerings might  
be of interest too - particularly if they are in the sub-million  
dollar end of the scale. I imagine the only requirement will be that  
it can run on a UNIX system - that being the point of HUMBUG and all.

Regards,

Adrian Sutton.