[IMC-US] Re: [mir-coders] newsvine: the indymedia killer? not really

[deva]

We have had some discussion here in Portland about migrating off of Mir 
down the road. Mir development is stalled, with no signs that this is 
going to change.

Long term, I am of the mind that using a CMS with wider development and 
support beyond indymedia would be a better solution. Some discussion 
and investigation of other choices would be useful. Many indymedia 
sites would benefit from a more robust CMS with broader use and 
development.

Discussion here has leaned away from php based systems. What else is 
out there?

deva
portland



On Nov 10, 2005, at 1:43 PM, lotu5 wrote:

> Sorry for the wide distribution of this email. I'm just trying to spur
> some discussion about how we can move forward with the technology we're
> using.
>
> As bradley reminded me, a few good reasons not to use drupal are:
>
> - crappy handling of photos (but good handling of mp3/video)
> - crappy support for translations. mir's internationalization is some 
> of
> the best i know of anywhere.
>
> In my opinion, our biggest problem with mir right now is a lack of
> developers. We have lots of big ideas, but very few people contributing
> code (including myself). So, I guess this is a call out for more
> developer help with mir.
>
> I started this page a while back:
> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/MirNeedsAndRequests
>
> and we have it linked from sd imc, but I haven't heard anything come of
> it yet. I know that clara has also recently been working a lot on
> documentation, so maybe this overlaps.
>
> solidarity,
>
>   lotu5
>
>
> lotu5 wrote:
>> http://www.simplefuture.org/?p=615
>>
>> "Also sounds like, well, just about every single feature and the exact
>> structure of I could have hoped for in a new codebase for Indymedia
>> websites (or any independent media making platform). User created
>> stories with a tagsonomy based navigation, voting capabilities for
>> moderation and promotion, the integration of user accounts, the robust
>> network, the ease of tagging and browsing tags via simple URLs, local
>> news subdomains… everything in the direction of an organic news 
>> network
>> created and maintained by its users. Perfect."
>>
>> well, here's why it's NOT an indymedia killer at all:
>>
>> 'Newsvine is a large-scale news media site which gives you almost all
>> the same stories you read on sites like MSNBC and CNN but presents 
>> them
>> in a much more attractive package.'
>>
>> but hopefully it can point the way technologically to some features we
>> should work towards.
>>
>> drupal has a lot of these features, why not move more imc's to drupal?
>>
>
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