NB: My Drupal talk might be a little out of scope of 'I need something a tad bit more than Mailman'. But its entertaining nonetheless:
http://drupaledu.org/posts/tour-yales-drupal-infrastructure http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5585354/Drupal_On_Demand_PICC10.pdf On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:33 AM, John BORIS <jbo...@adphila.org> wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
