Re: CMS

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, Ross, Chris wrote:
>  I am looking for a web content management system to allow K12
> teachers and possibly students to easily maintain personal or project
> web space. There are a lot of products out there but most of them are
> not set up to allow access to one area and not the entire site. This
> does not have to scale too big. A few thousand user sites max. ( We
> have no idea what the user load will be since we only have 400 to 500
> users now and most don't keep their sites up to date. )
>
> Criteria:
>
> 1. Access control that would allow someone access to areas that they
> have been allowed to work and no other area.
>
> 2. Web browser accessible. GUI editor.
>
> 3. EASY to use for non technical folks!
>
> 4. Little modification needed.

dunno if it's what you want, but there's a kind of clone of yahoo groups
called "GNU Glubs" (GNU Clubbing System).

when i last looked at, about a year ago, it was missing a few features compared
to yahoo, but it seemed to do the basic job.

sourceforge project page is at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/glubs/


doesn't look like it's been changed since Feb 2003.

it's in perl, can use postgresql (or mysql too, i think) as the db backend, and
the code was relatively easy to understand and modify.  works with apache &
CGI, or apache with mod-perl.

not finished, but a pretty good base, i thought.


craig

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craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)