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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:48:21 -0000, Brough, Tom wrote: > We are in the midst of our formal tendering process for a Web Content > Management System. We have a short list of candidates including PHP-Nuke. > Since there is no "formal" company behind the product we would like to hear > from anybody who feels qualified to advocate PHP-Nuke. The advocate ideally > would have some business / consultancy or heavy end user involvement with > the product and be willing to advocate free of charge. Free of charge consulting. For free of charge software? Not really fair. > If anyone is interested in taking up this role, the process would require > the completion of an initial questionnaire and may lead to a further set of Couldn't they do the research themselves? > more detailed questions. It is possible that we may request a demonstration > of the product if it gets through to the "second round" and if someone is The content management systems I have looked at and like are the python ones. Those based on Zope or Twisted. In particular plone. They have a video demo which is quite good here: http://www2.state.hi.us/dags/icsd/content/video/higovdemo.avi > willing to demonstrate its use this would be a bonus, however it should be > noted that this would not guarantee any further formal (paid) consultancy > would be requested from the advocate. Oh, you might get paid maybe after all? > Although I will not be involved in the tendering process, I have abstained > from taking on this role in the interests of maintaining neutrality. However > I would ask that if more than one member of dclug feels qualified for this > role, that they should collaborate or agree on who will do the advocacy. Neutral? I.e. sit on your ass? Come on, try things out. > The timescale for this process is very limited, replies to the questionnaire > will need to be submitted by 10th of March. Please discuss this freely > amongst the group and let me know when you have agreed a single point of > contact. There are loads of *good* solutions out there. I think the argument(between LUG members) will be largely about taste. I do not like PHP/Perl for example, while others do. Oh wait, you have already shortlist PHP-Nuke? Oh I read the mail initially wrong. Oh well. Regards, -Kai Hendry
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