[Steering Committee] Web Site Question

[Jason Lee]

One of the things Ryan and talked about yesterday at lunch was RSS/Atom
feeds.  Some have requested a feed of, for example news items (meeting
notices, external events like OK Code Camp, etc).  Also mentioned was a jobs
posting feed.  We talked about Wordpress (which powers my blog) as you can
subscribe to feeds for certain categories.  Just post a blog entry under the
"jobs" category, and anyone subscribed to (for example)
http://blog.okcjug.org/jobs/feed sees the posting when he refreshes his feed
reader.  I can easily setup a Wordpress blog under the subdomain of our
choice and get rolling with that.

I got to thinking though, as dangerous as that may be, about the site in
general.  That would leave us with basically two sites:  the feed site and
the wiki.  The idea behind the wiki is that anyone can edit it, but, beyond
the occasional job posting, there are very few who actually do so.  What if,
then, we re-implemented our site in something like
Joomla<http://www.joomla.org>?
I know it's PHP-based and Ryan would rather gnaw off his arm than write PHP,
but it's a pretty nice CMS system and has a SLEW of plugins, including
polls, Google Maps, etc.  I'm pretty sure I can create a user on my site
hosting account that would give $USER access to all things JUG (including
shell, i think), and it wouldn't cost me (or any of our sponsors) anything
extra.

What's the general feeling on that?  Does anyone have one?

feedback++ :)

-- 
Jason Lee, SCJP
Software Architect -- Objectstream, Inc.
JSF RI Dev Team
http://blogs.steeplesoft.com
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