[TriLUG] Wiki/CMS Recommendations?

[Marc M]

Ok, well I have been evaluating various apps' options for the forensic LUG 
that I started. I am not too keen on the wiki aspect, but CMS wise I have 
been schooled a bit. 

In fact, two of them are there now. You can check out Mambo at 

www.forensiclug.org <http://www.forensiclug.org>

and you can check out Wordpress at
www.forensiclug.org/testwp<http://www.forensiclug.org/testwp>

Also wordpress is at www.lugatucf.com <http://www.lugatucf.com> and they 
really like it. 

I tried Plone a while back (plone.org <http://plone.org>), and got all 
excited about it since it is pretty (but hell aren't they all these days ?). 
However my hosting provider and I 'came to the realization' that plone would 
not be good for us, since we have a shared (read el cheapo) hosting plan. :) 
Apparrently plone is resource-intensive enough for you to have to have a 
dedicated server, also there are some known apache version issues, but in 
your case I assume it is your local box so that's probably not a problem as 
it was for us. However, in my not so humble opinon, it still might be too 
much for what you want, unless you are implementing it for an enormous group 
it just seems like overkill. (Plone runs NATO and AARP's websites, for 
example.) 

I also tried PHP/Postnuke and Phplist as well as a locally developed php 
application. All three of them had great benefits but the effort/ROI ratio 
was just too great for me. 

Mambo was good, and came close to what we wanted, but still had some script 
errors that were a pain to debug. So wordpress is lighter, nimbler, and has 
far less overhead, which is what I want. If I were implementing an enormous 
site with zillions of features, content/subscriptions/email 
notifications/regular newsletters, etc. -- then I might choose differrently. 
I was interested in Moveable Type at one point, but after reading the 
wordpress site I have lost interest in anything other than WP.

Hope that helps - one man's opinion only.

Marc





On 5/3/05, Michael Reamy <michael.reamy at renesas.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm beginning to look for a good Wiki or CMS for use in our engineering
> environment. I would like something that non-programmers could easily
> use while still maintaining flexibility.
> Something that easily handles technical documentation is most important
> but eventually it might be nice to replace manual HTML of web pages in
> general with CMS type features. Also, features to 'enable' project
> collaboration are desirable.
> I'm beginning to work my way through opensourcecms.com<http://opensourcecms.com>at the moment.
> MediaWiki looks good. TikiWiki looks better for features but I'm a bit
> worried about it being too bloated.
> I'm curious as to what you guys think about the options.
> 
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