Re: [seul-edu] Site tools for Schoolforge

[Michael Hall <admin@openlearningcommunity.org>]

I know we all find what we're familiar with easiest, but Zope is really a
much more complicated thing to set up and maintain than a PHP application,
for no real gain. Using phpWeblog, a fully functioning newslog/portal
type site can be up and running in half an hour. And even if that is
debateable, far more people can use PHP and maintain PHP code than
Zope/Python.

Michael 

On 30 Nov 2001, Cees de Groot wrote:

> Doug Loss <drloss@home.com> said:
> ><http://www.seul.org/archives/seul/edu/Nov-2001/msg00266.html>. 
> >
> Watering hole for developers: Wiki. I know and run two implementations,
> MoinMoin (e.g. http://www.cdegroot.com/cgi-bin/photowiki) and Swiki
> (http://swiki.squeakfoundation.org/squeakfoundation) that work quite good.
> 
> For the rest, I think the Zope provides a lot of these things. A
> couple of years ago, I started a project called "OSES" (Open Source
> Educational Software - oses.org is still registered, if you want it
> for this project...). It was a stupid move because I didn't have the
> time to pull the project, but I had a working portal in Zope up in a
> matter of days. It'd be even easier today with the Zope CMF product,
> a sort of portal out-of-the-box with membership services and other cool
> stuff, and you have a gigantic pile of Zope products to adorn that all
> (there's a weblog, a yahoo-like directory thingie for organizing url's,
> addresses, etcetera). The advantage over PHP is that these things
> integrate a lot better.
> 
> I do agree that Sourceforge wouldn't be the correct solution, in any case ;-).
> 
> As far as volunteering is concerned: not a lot of time, but I happen to run an
> ISP so I can provide hosting etcetera when needed.
> 
> 

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