Agreed. Drupal feels like overkill. We use meetup.com for the Canadian OpenStack Users Group. It does everything we need it to do and it's very reasonably priced. I don't see us switching away from it.
>From the wiki page <http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups> it looks like a lot of the other OSUGs are using it too. Whatever tool is decided upon, hopefully it can integrate with meetup.com. Regards, Everett On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Haisam Ido <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Tim. I have the skill set to maintain major aspects of > Drupal but maintaining a "portal" requires a team. The selection of a tool > really depends on the portal's requirements. > > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Tim Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> We use Drupal at CERN and it is extremely flexible for setting up branded >> themes, communities, RSS feeds, OpenID, dynamic content etc.. >> >> However, it is also quite complex and so would require some specialised >> skills to set up and maintain. This is fine if you have them available >> but >> it is a steep learning curve for this specific purpose. >> >> Tim >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [email protected] >> > [mailto:openstack-community-bounces+tim.bell= >> [email protected]] >> > On Behalf Of Atul Jha >> > Sent: 10 May 2012 22:31 >> > To: Stefano Maffulli; Haisam Ido >> > Cc: User Groups Community, OpenStack >> > Subject: Re: [Openstack-community] Beyond the wiki page: planning an >> > International Community Portal >> > >> > Hi, >> > ________________________________________ >> > From: openstack-community- >> > [email protected] [openstack-community- >> > [email protected]] on behalf of Stefano >> > Maffulli [[email protected]] >> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:34 PM >> > To: Haisam Ido >> > Cc: User Groups Community, OpenStack >> > Subject: Re: [Openstack-community] Beyond the wiki page: planning an >> > International Community Portal >> > >> > On Thu 10 May 2012 04:23:34 AM PDT, Haisam Ido wrote: >> > > http://drupal.org/ might be a good choice for the "portal". Here's a >> > > list of Drupal users http://whousesdrupal.com/home >> > >> > Depending on what the needs are, Drupal may be overkill. For example, >> > >> > +1 >> > >> > Going ahead with Drupal will be a bad idea for same reason Stefano >> > mentioned. >> > >> > if we decide not to host and provide web apps for any of the local >> groups >> > (mlists, blog, forums, etc), we may well do with a much smaller >> application >> > that's easier to manage than Drupal. Do you think we need to offer these >> > applications? Who needs to use them? >> > >> > By the way, do you have experience running a large Drupal site? Would >> you >> be >> > interested in running this project (should we decide to)? >> > >> > thanks, >> > stef >> > >> > -- >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > http://www.csscorp.com/common/email-disclaimer.php >> > >> > -- >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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