Hi Geert, On 17. 03. 2011 10:59, Geert Claes wrote:
Smalltalk does have open source blog and content management systems; e.g. http://www.piercms.com Pier CMS and http://www.aidaweb.si/scribo.html AIDAscribo ... but a lot can be improved to make them attractive alternatives to the big http://www.drupal.org Drupal (PHP) and http://www.joomla.org Joomla (PHP) or even smaller ones like http://radiantcms.org Radiant CMS (Ruby) , http://www.refinerycms.com Refinery CMS (Ruby) , http://www.django-cms.org Django CMS (Python) , etc
Smalltalk will get more exposure if it were easier (and cheaper) for people to host their own blog or website using a Smalltalk based Blog/CMS.
Question is; what can be done to have more Smalltalkers use a Smalltalk based blog system and attract non-Smalltalkers to try a Smalltalk CMS?
Time! Preparing a CMS to the state of broad usefulness needs a lot of development effort and specially a lot of a feeling for end user needs. Both are strongly lacking in Smalltalk community IMHO. Maybe a subquestion, which audience to start with, with CMS end users, CMS developers, CMS something-in-between? To prepare something for "dummies" like WordPress is certainly a lot of work... Janko
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