[Baypiggies] Baypiggies web site

[William Deegan]

Donna,

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Donna Snow <donnamsnow at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a decent DjangoCMS http://www.django-cms.org/ that could be used
> instead. Although I've used Plone for a long, long time I'm leaning toward
> only using it for larger installs (intranets, large application builds that
> require heavy resources anyway) I'm finding it's overkill for most projects
> but works really well for larger installations (We build an app for CalTrans
> on it) So might be time to go Django and put the Plone site to rest. I don't
> have the time to maintain the Plone site (even in 3+ mode) I think our
> Pythonista's would be more comfortable with a python based site with a
> relational database (rather than object oriented) though Tony will have to
> move his book reviews..but we can export his reviews into xml format - does
> anyone know if we can import into Django once we've exported as xml?
>

I've actually been adding the book reviews as well.
I've written some logic to export the content as xml as well.

I think it wouldn't be to hard to hack up a converter to insert it into a
DB.
I'd really like to write something for GAE and use that.

-Bill


>
> Donna M Snow, Principal
> C Squared Enterprises
> illuminating your path to Open Source
> (websites are being rebuilt)
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:11 PM, William Deegan <bdbaddog at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I've been maintaining the Baypiggies website for a while.
>> Currently it's running Plone.
>>
>> Of late it's been throwing some error messages which are beyond my Plone
>> knowledge level to resolve.
>> If there are any Baypiggies members who are very familiar with Plone
>> please send me a message off list to (bdbaddog at gmail.com)
>> Or if anyone could suggest another (preferably  written in python) CMS to
>> use?
>>
>> For those who don't know, the website has a the following content:
>>
>>    1. Job listings <http://baypiggies.net/index_html/job-listings>
>>    2. Book Reviews<http://baypiggies.net/index_html/user-group-association-program/BookReviews>
>>    3. RSS Feed for baypiggies events<http://www.baypiggies.net/index_html/events/RSS>
>>    4. Just Added: Slides from Baypiggies Presentations
>>    <http://baypiggies.net/index_html/eventfolder/slides>*
>>    *
>>
>>
>> If you're a former (or future) presenter and would like to have a link to
>> your blog and/or have your slides hosted and linked to from the event,
>> please send me email off list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
>> (Baypiggies.net webminator)
>>
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