[Air-L] CMS for cross-dept/university project?

[simon collister]

Coming to this late so unsure if anyone's mentioned it, but Buddypress is Wordpress's free, OS social networking platform worth looking into too.....


> From: human.factor.one at gmail.com
> To: cwerry at mail.sdsu.edu
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:08:43 -0800
> CC: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] CMS for cross-dept/university project?
> 
> Basecamp has been mentioned, and while I love it it's definitely not a  
> CMS; it's a project collaboration tool.
> 
> Sounds like you are looking for a social community CMS. I would  
> recommend looking at Sakai, Jive SBS, or Drupal.
> Drupal can be configured to do many things, and there are many  
> University sites run on it.
> You also might like Sakai, a collaboration and learning tool for  
> educators by educators.
> http://sakaiproject.org/
> 
> I have friends who work for drupal.org and the Sakai Foundation - let  
> me know if you want me to introduce you via email.
> 
> Regards,
> Sharon
> 
> 
> On Mar 11, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Ren Reynolds wrote:
> 
> > Chris,
> >
> > If your focus is mainly on collaboration then I would look at one of  
> > the many off the shelf tools on the market. Basecamp has been  
> > mentioned, I would also suggest Huddle (http://www.huddle.com/)  
> > which I've used on a number of projects. Many of these have a free  
> > option and / or education and not-for profit licensing.
> >
> > I don't want to put your developer out of a job but there are so  
> > many as-a-service options out there now that I would strongly urge  
> > to you go for one of those and not to build or even customise much  
> > of anything. What's more the on going support costs of Drupal would  
> > tend to be more than WordPress as it is a more complex (though more  
> > flexible) product.
> >
> >
> > ren
> >
> > On 11 Mar 2011, at 20:48, Chris Werry wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Was hoping someone on the list might be able to offer some advice  
> >> on CMS
> >> choice.
> >>
> >> We have a common book program on campus. The writing program and some
> >> departments teach the same book in order to foster conversation and  
> >> community. There is
> >> interest in expanding this so 4 or 5 other universities/colleges in  
> >> the area also participate.
> >>
> >> Folks on our campus want to set up a CMS to help make this happen.  
> >> I'm
> >> trying to help with some of the planning. They want a CMS that can  
> >> be used to coordinate events
> >> and speakers, upload shared teaching resources, and perhaps  
> >> leverage some social media
> >> tools to build community. But nobody involved has much technical  
> >> expertise,
> >> and...I'm not sure they really know what they want to do with the  
> >> site.
> >>
> >> Early on I showed them some drupal sites, but some of our partners  
> >> weren't
> >> too familiar with this, and at that point we didn't have any tech  
> >> people to help with drupal. So the
> >> conversation turned to Wordpress...I showed them more model sites,  
> >> including CUNY's Academic
> >> Commons, which they really liked. But of course a group of  
> >> developers put a lot of effort
> >> into this. So it would be no simple feat to attempt something  
> >> similar.
> >>
> >> We now have one developer, and as it turns out she's most familiar  
> >> with
> >> drupal - although she can also build Wordpress sites.
> >>
> >> So my question is, does anyone have any recommendations? Perhaps  
> >> some model
> >> sites or distributions of drupal? (Has anyone tried openscholar - I  
> >> suspect it may
> >> be too focused on building individual faculty sites). Or a  
> >> Wordpress site that fits the
> >> bill?
> >>
> >> One final thought. The folks running this do have some money, so if  
> >> you've
> >> been involved in a customization of drupal or Wordpress which could  
> >> be reworked and re-themed
> >> by our developer, they might be willing to pay for 'consulting' etc.
> >>
> >> I'm interested in this main because I'd like to see such platforms  
> >> created
> >> for our writing program, in order to support some of the work we do  
> >> across
> >> departments and with outside groups.
> >>
> >> Any advice greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http:// 
> >> aoir.org
> >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
> >>
> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> >> http://www.aoir.org/
> >>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
> >
> > Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> > http://www.aoir.org/
> 
> _______________________________________________
> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
> 
> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> http://www.aoir.org/