[Lumiera] Home Page http://www.lumiera.org

[Richard Pitt]

I have been working with CMS systems a lot over the past several years -
that's quite a bit of my business.

I just went through an evaluation for a customer and they chose Drupal.

I'll note here that my own personal favorite is Geeklog (or the new
GLfusion variant) for the simple reason that it is by far the most
secure (as in the people who write its core do so for their software
security business so they know how to do it right) when being used by
"the public" in large numbers.

Drupal was chosen in this case because it really is a better CMS for
many things - but in this case the security was not an issue as the only
"members" will be staff of the company, not the general public, and
there will be no use of extra modules that were written by 3rd parties.

I watch a number of security bulletins daily - and see security
announcements almost daily for the "major" CMS systems, Joomla, Drupal,
Xoops, and others - mostly for the 3rd party plugins but fairly
frequently for the cores too. Keeping up with updates can add a lot to
the cost (in time, if not in actual money) of any such site - and if
updates are not kept up then the cost is in having to recover from major
problems when the hack occurs (and it will)

By comparison, Geeklog typically has seen a security bulletin about
every 4-6 months, and it is the authors that find most of the problems,
fixing them and putting out a new version/update at the same time.

I see "robots" hitting the various web servers I manage literally
constantly. They look for specific files from specific programs that are
known to have holes - and when they find them the robots take advantage.
I've had people come to me to fix them - machines that use tremendous
bandwidth with Italian subtitle movies on them is one strange but
typical example. Others include "warez" (hacked software) download sites
and IRC chat systems that spring up on your machine, hidden but active.

Take a look at GLfusion - it has a number of good features and is
oriented toward software distribution with its "filemgmt" plugin.

Discussion forum (not as good as phpBB but more than useful), Calendar,
comments, mediagallery (able to handle videos for samples, etc.) Polls,
stories and static pages.

Groklaw (not one of my sites) - a site dedicated to watching legal cases
on the net, notably the SCO vs IBM and others, uses Geeklog and at the
height of the SCO case was doing several million page views/week, and
has thousands of members.

My sites include Hancock Wildlife Foundation (hancockwildlife.org) where
we show live streaming video and solicit comments and feed back from
millions of viewers.

Let me know if I can help

richard

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 12:19 +0100, Patrick Schönenberger wrote:
> Hi together
> 
> I think that lumiera will be a great project!! I was a bit surprised 
> when I saw that the homepage is not up to date. So I thought about I 
> could set up a new one with joomla ( an open source cms ), that everyone 
> who is more involved can get an username to add and change pages... are 
> there any interests for that kind of solution??
> 
> some pages created with joomla:
> 
> http://www.yofrankie.org
> http://www.blender.org
> 
> best regards
> 
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