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Hello fellow travellers,<br>
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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.<br>
I have set up several sites with Joomla, and keep getting amazed by its community support and availability (lots !!) of contributions / "plug-ins".<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Just my 2 cents<br>
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Stefan<br>
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<tt><font color="#737373">>The kids in Uruguay have started blogging a lot with the XO. Posting</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#737373">>Adivinanzas (riddles) seem like a popular item.</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font color="#737373">>See: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134894806578234196">http://www.blogger.com/profile/06134894806578234196</a></font></tt><br>
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<tt><font color="#737373">>Now they are asking for more sophisticated content management and we</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#737373">>have already flagged Drupal as a tool that may fit the bill. I wrote a</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#737373">>brief requirements definition of what they want, now posted here:</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#737373">><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Learning_activities/Journalism">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Learning_activities/Journalism</a></font></tt><br>
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<tt><font color="#737373">>We need another round of discussion with the teachers to nail down their</font></tt><br>
<tt><font color="#737373">>requirements but all signs point towards Drupal so far...</font></tt><br>
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<tt>I have worked w/ Drupal in the past and I think it is one of the better</tt><br>
<tt>LAMP cms's. I have found that it takes a fair amount of configuration. </tt><br>
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<tt>I would love to see a good stock configuration of Drupal for the School</tt><br>
<tt>Server. It is not appropriate for the XO as Ben Schwartz points out.</tt><br>
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<tt>There already is the Moodle cms on the XS but I am not familiar w/</tt><br>
<tt>Moodle and I don't know what kind of blogging functionality it has </tt><br>
<tt>*punt* => to Martin</tt><br>
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<tt>Bert, pls join the discussion on <a href="mailto:server-devel@lists.laptop.org">server-devel@lists.laptop.org</a> </tt><br>
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<tt>-- </tt><br>
<tt>Bryan W. Berry</tt><br>
<tt>Systems Engineer</tt><br>
<tt>OLE Nepal, <a href="http://www.olenepal.org/">http://www.olenepal.org</a></tt><br>
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