I started programming a few months ago, and I realised that creating a facebook on a particular topic (theme) is hard work for a beginner, I want to do it, but more in the long term. Do you know if there is any specialised CMS that could help me to create a social network and community? members could send chat messages to each other, have a wall, a forum?
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A charity has asked for my opinion on what CMS to use for a new website. A couple of web developers have donated their time to develop the website.
What is need is the following.
Easy uploads of images / video's The client must be able to upload video's and images of events that they are coordinating. The client is not tech savvy, and this is the most important thing.
Easy to medium administration. The site is to be administered and supported by a new person who is willing to learn what they need to.
Easy access to make donations.
I nice, clean look. (this is really up to the developer though)
Any advice would be appreciated. After research, the three candidates seem to be Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla, and views on these or other suggestions are welcome.
I'd vote for Wordpress. It's probably the easiest for non tech savvy users.
What are the messaging systems available?
I want to build a messaging system like twitter.How to proceed towards it?
Voicemail is a very popular messaging system. You could setup a web app that allows you to record your voice and send it to all of your followers.
Email is another very popular messaging system. Though I am not sure that it has staying power... its probably just some web2.0 craze.
Here's a Webinar tutorial: Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes
Status.net is a good one. Also Yammer (more aimed at corporate environment). I think Salesforce just came up with one (http://www.salesforce.com/chatter/)
They all do the same as Twitter, just a little differently:
Status.Net is open source (or hosted) so you can run your own twitter.
Yammer is a paid for version that only people in your company can access.
Chatter is tied in with Salesforce.
If you're going to go down this route, you need to find that niche in the microblogging market that will give you an edge. I disagree with Matt Ellen in that I don't think this niche has been filled yet. Look at Facebook. It came into a world where MySpace was king. Its niche was exclusivity - you had to be a member of a college to join in the very beginning.
So, like with any new idea that is there to take on some well-established entity, find what makes it different and build on it.
I help out at a local soup kitchen, and they are wanting to create a website. Most of their criteria are pretty simple, they want to be able to have a calendar, post pictures, and have a blog. However they also want to be able to manage volunteer's. They want to be able to post a event, have a list of jobs that they need volunteer's for that event, and allow people to sign up for the jobs. I would like to base this website on a well known platform like DotNetNuke, WordPress, or Drupal. Before I go and code my own plugin for managing volunteers I decided to see if I could find a platform that already has a module available. So far I have not been able to find anything. Has anybody heard of one or used one in the past? I would appreciate any suggestions.
There's a whole range of ways to do this, but I haven't ever seen a dedicated solution (plugin or otherwise).
On the one hand, a blog could do all that you're asking. Posting pictures and blog entries? That's wordpress all over. Want a calendar? We have a plugin for that. Want to let volunteers sign up for stuff? Let them post comments.
On the other hand, the problem you're describing isn't unique: In my own experience I've wanted the software you describe. May I suggest that, if you have the time, you make something totally awesome for the volunteer community?
Our company, Wired Impact, recently released a plugin called Wired Impact Volunteer Management that provides exactly the functionality you're looking for. You can learn more and download the plugin at https://wordpress.org/plugins/wired-impact-volunteer-management/.
I am part of a growing software project with at least 200 active developer in 10 locations. I would like to set up an on-line chat forum for developers because I think it would help to coordinate efforts. We have an email mailing list but I feel like some questions or announcements are too informal to send to everyone while mentioning it in a chat forum might be a useful community resource.
I have never participated in a software project that used an on-line chat forum so I would like to hear about peoples experiences. I am particularly interested in technical issues: Use of IRC vs. alternative platforms; how to manage access, eg. for developers only, allowing users to participate; the value of requiring certain announcements to be made on the chat forum eg who is resolving broken builds etc.
If I pitch the idea to the community I would like to have some good arguments why it would be a good idea and some prospective of its usefulness in other software projects.
The features you MOST want for such informal discussions are:
persistance (I have't used IRC in >decade, does it persist chats that you missed?)
Searcheability
Classification (tagging) to help sort through the stuff.
Considering those 3, I'd strongly suggest some sort of discussion software (microblog, Wiki, forum) with RSS feed.
It's a great platform for informal discussions. It's flexible, users can self-organize and its extensible. We have tied CI build results and SCM commits. Further, given the availability of multiple consumption streams (web, terminal) anyone can join with little notice.
I think the previous poster is over-stating the importance of the contents of this conversation and who the heck wants to maintain discussion software? Blergh.
I'm wondering if there's an off the shelf CMS available that is similar to something like Mobile Roadie - ie: it will allow you to create multiple versions of one application? I'm looking to develop some mobile travel guides for iPhone/Android/Blackberry etc, and rather than get a CMS built, I'd like to see if there's something out there is similar to Wordpress in that it will allow us to input text, images, Google Maps details, phone numbers, email addresses and potentially some audio/video content.
If anyone knows of anything, I'd love to hear about it. Also, if you have any ideas regarding pricing, that would be extremely helpful! Thanks in advance for your assistance.
The chances of you finding something "Off the shelf" diminish as your requirements get more specific. You want something for a limited and specific target audience (iPhone, Andriod, Blackberry) that can deliver many different types of very specific content (addresses, maps, text, images, video).
From my experience of building a CMS for one of the world's most famous travel guides, I can say your chances are slim indeed. The technical requirements of managing this type of information are huuuuuge!
But hell, I could be wrong! I hope you find something that solves your problem and you make the world a better place!
PS: Maybe you should simplify your requirements and build from there? Good luck. :)
I just dropped a reply on this question:
How to setup a CMS as a backend for iPhone app
You could look at this blog for a drupal showcase:
http://drupal.org/node/900630
and at this wordpress plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/json-api/
Personally I am trying with tikiwiki.org but I am not sure yet if it is right.
Cheers
We created a very flexible CMS called StorageRoom which we built specifically for mobile apps.
You could easily let users manage locations with maps and additional fields.