Hi all, Trying to figure out if what we need is *really* a CMS or not, but it's kind of hard to know, being new to the field and having extremely limited time to learn about it in any other way than "hands on". Am hoping people on the list can give further guidance in this matter, as it's pretty new to me.
Looking for a system that lets multiple people register on a site, then collaboratively co-author manuals/guides/documents/etc. For example, with PostgreSQL we have a really strong following of volunteers and users, and they're almost all web-savvy, and they're spread around an extremely diverse array of operating systems, environments, etc. We're looking for some way of allowing the members of the PostgreSQL community to co-operatively develop things like a "PostgreSQL Tuning Guide" and other such documents in an online fashion, preferably using common technologies (i.e. Mozilla as a front end, etc). There are some technical specs that constrain what we're looking for too: - If it uses a database then it has to work with PostgreSQL - The server side stuff we run for the postgresql.org servers is all unix based, predominately FreeBSD and it would have to run with that. - Must have the capability to support multiple languages, whether through unicode or some other means. Translators are around to do the needed stuff, but it doesn't help if the capability doesn't exist to cater to them. Open Source is definitely preferable, and being a community effort we're extremely cost sensitive. Assuming we find something that works well for everyone, there's an extremely good chance that other very large Open Source projects will also adopt the solution. Is what we're looking for a CMS? If so, any recommendations? Sorry for the unusual email, it's just that I can describe what we need, but not sure where to look and there are *so many* different systems around with the label of CMS that it's hard to figure it out. Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
