[Ubuntu-be] Website discussion

[Bertrand Rousseau]

On 3/4/06, Francois Schoubben <fsc at info.fundp.ac.be> wrote:
> Jan Claeys a écrit :
>
> >Op vr, 03-03-2006 te 13:47 +0100, schreef Pierre Buyle:
> >
> >
> >>CMS Made Simple and Plone have been proposed as CMS. I proposed myself
> >>for webmastering but I don't have any plone/python experience, so
> >>Plone is probably not a solution if I'm the one to maintain it.
> >>Anyway, it's probably too much for our needs. I don't know about CMS
> >>Made Simple but it seems ok for the job. However I think we may also
> >>look at Joomla! (community fork from Mambo - www.joomla.org). I hope
> >>to be able to try test installations of Joomla! and CMS-MS this week
> >>end.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >IMHO both Plone & Joomla are "40 ton trucks" while we probably only need
> >a small "camionette" to "transport" our content...
> >
> >
> >
> When i talked about Plone, it was specially for his multilingual
> infrastructure :
> http://plone.org/news/plone-cms-multilingual-infrastructure/
>
> I think it will be our most complex problem : to keep our content
> unified in 3+ languages.
>
> And i think we will not change of website infrastructure in the future,
> it's too time consuming to do it (in NamurLUG, we think about this for 4
> years now, and it's only becoming slowly reality :-) ).
>
> Here are the choices i see :
> * play with static HTML : the webmasters will be under heavy charge (not
> an option for me [NAOFM])
> * play with generated HTML (wml or so) : the webmasters will be the only
> one to understand how to change the site (NAOFM)
> * play with a CMS and 1 tree for each language, we will need a guy to
> keep list of pages to translate (why not, but it's hard to do this job).
> Maybe write a php routine for that CMS that check this periodicaly,
> boring tasks are what computers are made for. But creating routines (if
> it does not exists elsewhere) is not so easy work, to be maintained (and
> documented, nobody's here forever).


I don't think we'll have that many pages to maintain, I mean not an
unmanageable amount. We need a quick an easy way to edit the website,
and I fear that we'll lose time if we have to invest in plone. Every
contributor should be able to quickly add information to the website,
without having first to learn the internals of a particular CMS. IMHO,
let's keep this simple, let's play with something like CMSMS.