Presentation for the Online News Association Conference 2010

1. Choosing an Open Source CMS What are the major aspects of the decision to go with an Open Source CMS platform?

2. Community created/managed Free to use Community managed / group innovation Various licensing models (GPL, LGPL, Apache, BSD, MIT) – doesn’t really matter, but matters Open source is only the opposite of closed source. The idea of “vendor-provided” and “open source” solutions are not opposites. 2 Understanding Open Source

3. Cost Ease/Expense of Implementation No Vendor Tie in Control over destiny Contributions Openness Community Support Modularity Community innovation 3 What’s To Like about Open Source?

4. You have to pick the right community Where to Start? Lots of options that are hard to evaluate You will probably need consulting help Documentation/training may be limited Maintenance & Support should be taken seriously as an ongoing cost/activity Staying Up to Date Upgrades and patches Knowledge of the community Requires discipline to stick to the architecture model 4 Sounds good, so what’s the Catch?

5. 5 Stacking them up: 4 Popular OSS CMS Platforms WordPress is easy to set-up and use, which is great for small, simple sites, and blogs and comes with a hosted and non-hosted download yourself version. Joomla offers out-of-the-box strength, but may not be the best option for scaling to large traffic or multi-site configurations. Drupal offers a developer-friendly platform with advanced content management capabilities. It has a strong community support and the ability to scale. Plone is a powerful, but a technically demanding tool. Written in Python, Plone requires an experienced programming team, but is very flexible. Sources: http://cmsreport.com/node/543 http://www.goodwebpractices.com/other/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal.html

6. 6 Frameworks Ruby on RAILS is a framework for the Ruby programming language that is popular for many “web 2.0” SAAS site, but can be used to create CMSs. Like RAILs, django provides frameworks to build sites on top of Python. It is especially popular among publishers because its roots in this community. Zope is an open source web application server primarily written in the Python programming language.Zope includes a content management framework (CMF). Plone is built on top of Zope and adds the polished product aspect to it. Drupal can also be considered a framework to build custom applications on PHP because its architecture allows for enormous opportunity for customization, extensibility and 3rd party API integration.

7. Idealware Comparison Chart Source: Idealware: Comparing Open Source CMS

8. Which is for You? A side-side comparison Source: CMS Matrix

10. OS: Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X

11. a database, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, to store content and settings.Source: Idealware report

12. 10 Understanding Drupal: The layman’s translation Drupal is an open source CMS with a social flare (read: web 2.0 pre-wired) It is flexible and lets you steal work others have done and pass it off as your own. Developers can do really cool things with Drupal. Its hard if you want it to be, but most of you will just see the easy stuff It works on everything your IT guys run – even Windows! Source: Idealware report

13. social networks blogs / wikis forums / comments content workflow taxonomy analytics search RSS ratings tagging users Social Publishing Software Participation-Driven Websites Social Publishing Systems Content Mgmt Systems Social Software Tools Source:

14. Flexibility of design and presentation Ability to totally customize editorial interfaces, workflow and content Easy to extend functionality because of its modular architecture Quickly add new features that meet your goals and objectives Proven performance and reliability in an enterprise environment Ease and efficiency of implementation 12 Why We Use Drupal

15. 13 Drupal Community and Support The Drupal community is a key differentiating factor for its success The Drupal community has built such a strong foundation of collaboration and support that “tens of thousands of people and organizations have chosen to use Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including community web portals, corporate web sites, social networking sites, personal web sites or blogs, and much more.” Source:

16. Drupal Layers: Architecture (or is it Marketecture?) Source: Drupal.org

17. Resources Drupal: The New Gov 2.0 Site Builder? http://govfresh.com/2010/03/drupal-the-new-gov-2-0-site-builder/ 5 Government Sites Using Drupal Effectively for Open Government Initiatives http://govfresh.com/2010/02/5-government-sites-using-drupal-effectively-for-open-government-initiatives/ Open Source vs. Vendor-Provided Software: Comparing Them Side by Side http://www.idealware.org/articles/opensource_vendor.php Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone 60-page independent Idealware report that provides both an introduction to the topic of open source CMS options and a very detailed comparison of the most popular four systems. http://www.idealware.org/comparing_os_cms/