Comments on: Drupal demo @ UCalgary http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/17/drupal-demo-ucalgary/ apparently much happier in person Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:03:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: D'Arcy http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/17/drupal-demo-ucalgary/#comment-81854 D'Arcy Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 208508867#comment-81854 They're meaning it to manage faculty/department websites, as well as external relations, the "main" website, etc... I agree that it's distracting to search for the "One True Anything" - but IT doesn't want to get into the application support business (huh?) so they want just one app selected. I was initially advocating for a more generalized approach - select one of these solutions (Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, MovableType, others...), and we'll support you. But, they aren't forcing departments to use The One True CMS - just offering it as a solution for those that want to swing that way. They’re meaning it to manage faculty/department websites, as well as external relations, the “main” website, etc…

I agree that it’s distracting to search for the “One True Anything” – but IT doesn’t want to get into the application support business (huh?) so they want just one app selected.

I was initially advocating for a more generalized approach – select one of these solutions (Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, MovableType, others…), and we’ll support you.

But, they aren’t forcing departments to use The One True CMS – just offering it as a solution for those that want to swing that way.

]]> By: Gardner http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/17/drupal-demo-ucalgary/#comment-81855 Gardner Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 208508867#comment-81855 By "websites," do you mean everything from academic workspaces to official UCalgary public communications? For our "branded/official" UMW webpages, we use Contribute. So far we've outsourced everything innovative in the academic space to a webhosting service that supports several CMSs, so we don't have the "one true CMS" problem. We have lots of other problems with scalability and sustainability, etc. etc., and I know I should be more interested in those problems, but the truth is that right now I think the search for the One True Anything in IT simply plays into vendors' hands and ties the University's hands as we try not to fall too far behind innovation on the Web generally. By “websites,” do you mean everything from academic workspaces to official UCalgary public communications? For our “branded/official” UMW webpages, we use Contribute. So far we’ve outsourced everything innovative in the academic space to a webhosting service that supports several CMSs, so we don’t have the “one true CMS” problem. We have lots of other problems with scalability and sustainability, etc. etc., and I know I should be more interested in those problems, but the truth is that right now I think the search for the One True Anything in IT simply plays into vendors’ hands and ties the University’s hands as we try not to fall too far behind innovation on the Web generally.

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