[Server-devel] Drupal on OLPC?

[Sameer Verma]

Stefan Reitz wrote:
> Hello fellow travellers,
>
> I am not really familiar with Drupal, I used to think of it as a kind
> of precursor to Joomla (a bit like mambo). Drupal adepts may get angry
> with me here.
Not getting angry :-) but precursor is not the right term. Drupal is
alive and well and is quite active. Some very visible sites use it.
[http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites]

Joomla and Mambo (Joomla forked from Mambo, and now the two are
significantly different) are fine CMS environments as well.
> I have set up several sites with Joomla, and keep getting amazed by
> its community support and availability (lots !!) of contributions /
> "plug-ins".
> If you consider putting a Content Management System on the XS (and
> Moodle has lots of the touch and feel of Joomla and really is a
> specialized flavour of a CMS), you would also want to have a look at
> Joomla.
> Joomal is largely php based, and once you have gotten a grip on CSS
> (you don't have to - you can run with lots of free templates), there
> is virtually no limit to the appearance of your site.
>

Moodle has blog functionality in the core install. It used to be called
Journal way back, but its now replaced by blogs. I've used the "Journal"
feature in my classes before, and it serves the blogging purpose well.

Why have yet another CMS even if the stack is the same (LAMP)?

Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/


> The amount of configuration is on the painless side of the scale. Of
> course you still have to enter your contents, but then configuration
> is more optional than essential.
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> Stefan
>
>
> >The kids in Uruguay have started blogging a lot with the XO. Posting
> >Adivinanzas (riddles) seem like a popular item.
>
> >See: http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134894806578234196
>
> >Now they are asking for more sophisticated content management and we
> >have already flagged Drupal as a tool that may fit the bill. I wrote a
> >brief requirements definition of what they want, now posted here:
> >http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Learning_activities/Journalism
>
> >We need another round of discussion with the teachers to nail down their
> >requirements but all signs point towards Drupal so far...
>
> I have worked w/ Drupal in the past and I think it is one of the better
> LAMP cms's. I have found that it takes a fair amount of configuration.
>
> I would love to see a good stock configuration of Drupal for the School
> Server. It is not appropriate for the XO as Ben Schwartz points out.
>
> There already is the Moodle cms on the XS but I am not familiar w/
> Moodle and I don't know what kind of blogging functionality it has
> *punt* => to Martin
>
> Bert, pls join the discussion on server-devel at lists.laptop.org
> <mailto:server-devel at lists.laptop.org> 
>
>
> -- 
> Bryan W. Berry
> Systems Engineer
> OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org <http://www.olenepal.org/>
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