[SATLUG] "Calendar & Forum" web application for Apache

[Brad Knowles]

On 10/15/07, Mark McCoy wrote:

>  Drupal or Plone work well for this sort of thing.

Drupal and Plone are content management systems.  Do they have 
calendar and forum components?  What other components are required to 
get them to work?


Joomla! is another CMS, and I know that there are a lot of fiddly 
little bits that have to be put together to make a working web site 
that includes blogs, wikis, web forum discussion systems, mailing 
lists, USENET newsgroups, etc....

Curtis W. Preston (author of the O'Reilly books "Backup and Recovery" 
and "Using SANs and NAS") has the website backupcentral.com which he 
runs and uses Joomla! plus components to integrate with Mailman, a 
web forum system, MediaWiki, the blog component of Joomla!, etc....

Very cool stuff, but I have some idea of what it's taken for him to 
get all this stuff put together, and it's definitely not trivial -- 
his component for integrating Mailman into the Joomla! environment 
has been contributed back to the respective projects, and he's even 
on his second version of the component so that you don't need to hook 
into the back-end host-based scripting tools provided with Mailman.

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