Comments on: Camping out with the Drupallers in Seattle http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/ Yes, Tobias Eigen blogs. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Erin http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/#comment-746 Erin Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:24:07 +0000 http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/#comment-746 Great notes! It was good seeing you at the Drupal Camp. Hope you plan to come to some of the monthly meetups. Good luck on your site- let me know if you need any help testing. Great notes! It was good seeing you at the Drupal Camp. Hope you plan to come to some of the monthly meetups. Good luck on your site- let me know if you need any help testing.

]]> By: JKE http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/#comment-801 JKE Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:29:30 +0000 http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/#comment-801 Nice introduction, guess i should look out for a local drupal camp as well. One question though: why do you want to switch from Joomla to Drupal? While I can imagine that Drupal might offer more functionality and details, I am asking because I am currently setting up a CMS for an NGO project and want to use a good system right from the start. thx! Nice introduction, guess i should look out for a local drupal camp as well.

One question though: why do you want to switch from Joomla to Drupal? While I can imagine that Drupal might offer more functionality and details, I am asking because I am currently setting up a CMS for an NGO project and want to use a good system right from the start. thx!

]]> By: Tobias Eigen http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/#comment-810 Tobias Eigen Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:04:44 +0000 http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/#comment-810 Hi JKE - Thanks for checking in. :-) We decided to switch to Drupal when Drupal 5.1 came out. It is more accessible to us (read: user friendly) than Drupal 4.7, and we also were not able to wait any longer for the release of Joomla 1.5. Between Drupal 5.1 and Joomla 1.0.11, <a href="http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Creating+a+website+member+directory" rel="nofollow">our requirements</a> were more easily met using Drupal 5.1. We are basing alot of our functionality on civicrm which exists already in Drupal or is fairly easy to reach. This is not to say that Joomla 1.0.11 is not ideal for some organizations - indeed we've set up quite a few nice sites for Kabissa members using it. Joomla 1.5 promises to be awesome. But for our timing and our particular requirements (esp with civicrm in the mix) Drupal 5.1 makes more sense. Cheers, Tobias Hi JKE -

Thanks for checking in. :-) We decided to switch to Drupal when Drupal 5.1 came out. It is more accessible to us (read: user friendly) than Drupal 4.7, and we also were not able to wait any longer for the release of Joomla 1.5.

Between Drupal 5.1 and Joomla 1.0.11, our requirements were more easily met using Drupal 5.1. We are basing alot of our functionality on civicrm which exists already in Drupal or is fairly easy to reach.

This is not to say that Joomla 1.0.11 is not ideal for some organizations - indeed we’ve set up quite a few nice sites for Kabissa members using it. Joomla 1.5 promises to be awesome. But for our timing and our particular requirements (esp with civicrm in the mix) Drupal 5.1 makes more sense.

Cheers,

Tobias

]]> By: JKE http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/#comment-850 JKE Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:25:16 +0000 http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/#comment-850 Oh, I hear you on that Joomla 1.5 issue! Now after learning that my testing environment also allows an installation of Drupal, I quickly switched and was instantly suprised to find so many good modules being available. I think I'll stick to Drupal now and see if it does the job we'll need it for (currently a one-man show - i am trying to set this up for a website on ecological sanitation issues in an ngo environment, so basically those are similar requirements as yours with searchable user database, workgroup forums etc. - the "shida" is that these guys don't even know what a CreativeCommons Licence is so it's not only about introducing a proper CMS, but also about introducing a group of scientists to a relatively new Web2.0 world they never really thought of becoming part of their collaborative networks, which are btw still based on Yahoo!Groups (at least something)). So thx for this hint! Cheers from Frankfurt, jke Oh, I hear you on that Joomla 1.5 issue!
Now after learning that my testing environment also allows an installation of Drupal, I quickly switched and was instantly suprised to find so many good modules being available. I think I’ll stick to Drupal now and see if it does the job we’ll need it for (currently a one-man show - i am trying to set this up for a website on ecological sanitation issues in an ngo environment, so basically those are similar requirements as yours with searchable user database, workgroup forums etc. - the “shida” is that these guys don’t even know what a CreativeCommons Licence is so it’s not only about introducing a proper CMS, but also about introducing a group of scientists to a relatively new Web2.0 world they never really thought of becoming part of their collaborative networks, which are btw still based on Yahoo!Groups (at least something)). So thx for this hint!

Cheers from Frankfurt,
jke

]]> By: sokari http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/#comment-874 sokari Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:41:16 +0000 http://www.saidia.org/2007/06/30/camping-out-with-the-drupallers-in-seattle/#comment-874 hey, i have been reading up on drupal - a friend gave me an excellent book which i left in spain:) so i cant give you the name - i have started experimenting with it and will get back to that once i return home - looks good though hey, i have been reading up on drupal - a friend gave me an excellent book which i left in spain:) so i cant give you the name - i have started experimenting with it and will get back to that once i return home - looks good though

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