"kbperry" wrote:
> I am currently a student, and for our HCI class project we are
> redeveloping our CS website. I attend a very large university (around
> 30,000 students), and the CS site will need to be updated by many
> people that don't have technical skills (like clerical staff).
>
> The biggest problem with the current site is that not enough people
> have access to update it. Since I love python, these seemed like
> viable solutions.
>
> 1) Is Zope/Plone overkill for this type of project?
>
> 2) Why use Plone vs. straight up Zope?
>
> 3) Is there a way to get over the steep learning curves (that I have
> read about)?
do you want to build a web application, use a ready-made CMS, or is the goal to
easily get lots of information on to the (intra)web ?
if the latter, a modern wiki with good access control could be worth
investigating:
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnAccessControlLists
(for performance, you may want to run the wiki behind mod_proxy)
if you want a ready-made content management system, pick Plone.
if you want to build your own web application, you know Python reasonably
well, you don't want much of a learning curve, and you want to start right now,
pick Django.
(I'm now leaving the microphone to the "pick me pick me!" crowd ;-)
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