Ned, What you describe sounds like a Portal which there are many. Drupal (www.drupal.org) is one that comes to mind first and one that I have used. It is somewhat easy to put up and maintain. You can brand it for your own use and lock it down. I used to use PHPNUKE but that project changed hands and had some difficulties once you put it on the net. It is up to version 6.16. Give it a look. There was a talk on this at PICC'10. Talk Description:
Drupal On-Demand Nick Silkey Senior Systems Administrator, Yale University Content management systems are nothing new. What is new is the idea of a pressable, one-click infrastructure which can provision on-demand. This talk centers around the decision points and lessons learned from the infrastructure side of the house when a 30,000-person university standardizes upon an open-source content management system to host a rainbow of web content for various flavors of students, faculty, and staff. We shall discuss tools actively leveraged in the trenches which support automated builds and deployment, version-control systems, continuous integration workflow tools, along with high-availabilty infrastructure components. In addition to providing an overview of how this was accomplished, details about upcoming enhancements to the environment will be discussed. Hope this helps. John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >>> Edward Ned Harvey <lop...@nedharvey.com> 6/1/2010 8:35 AM >>> Once every so often, at work, some group will ask me for tools to interact with some customers. Particularly like ... wiki, email lists, discussion forums etc. You know, basic services which facilitate communications and good relations. Such services, of course, must be secured and authenticated. It's nice to make the interface "branded" but not necessary. Of particular interest, I wonder, can anybody recommend a good mailing list / forum / blog sort of server or service? I could build a mailman server, but it's difficult to manage "user accounts" and then the mailing archives look primitive, and are unsearchable, etc. I could enable google groups, but have basic fears about that too ... I don't know what other good options there are. Wondering if anyone has suggestions of stuff they've found useful to facilitate communications & relations between internal groups with external groups. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
