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[Haisam Ido <haisam.ido@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <Tim.Bell@xxxxxxx> 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: openstack-community-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:openstack-community-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ]
> > 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-
> > bounces+atul.jha=csscorp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [openstack-community-
> > bounces+atul.jha=csscorp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Stefano
> > Maffulli [stefano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > 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
> >
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