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Wordpress is an amazing blogging system and it's coming into its own right as a CMS, but it's not geared toward the newsroom. Armstrong (the name of the projec

Wordpress is an amazing blogging system and it's coming into its own right as a CMS, but it's not geared toward the newsroom. Armstrong (the name of the project) is being built for the newsroom. Because of that, it probably won't gain a ton of traction in the standard Drupal/Wordpress deployment area, but that's fine by us. We're out to make the best news CMS, but the best generic one. That focus is what's sets us apart from many of the other open-source offerings out there, in my opinion.

arkitaip 16y ago
I am interested in CMSs and am curious to know how a cms for newsrooms actually looks like? I am working on a Drupal implementation and believe Drupal to be so generic that it can accommodate to any cluster of workflows - but maybe you believe the overhead of generality is too much? Maybe it would be more fruitful to invest that $975,000 in improving Drupal and/or creating a installation profile for newsrooms?
- coolgeek 16y ago
  Indeed, the OpenPublish Drupal distribution would seem to meet the requirements stated. Not to mention a 2-1/2 year head start on understanding and actually delivering on user needs. And a vastly larger developer base than this project will ever dream of having. It drives me friggin nuts when people declare the need to build new customized WAFs and CMSs to meet their highly unique needs. If OpenPublish doesn't meet your your needs, you can customize it for a lot less than $1M. Edit: Here's a good white paper from MediaCurrent http://www.mediacurrent.com/guide-large-scale-publishing-drupal http://www.mediacurrent.com/guide-large-scale-publishing-dru... And the distribution site: http://openpublishapp.com/ http://openpublishapp.com/
  - natrius 16y ago
    I addressed this issue in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314146 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314146

arkitaip 16y ago

I am interested in CMSs and am curious to know how a cms for newsrooms actually looks like? I am working on a Drupal implementation and believe Drupal to be so generic that it can accommodate to any cluster of workflows - but maybe you believe the overhead of generality is too much? Maybe it would be more fruitful to invest that $975,000 in improving Drupal and/or creating a installation profile for newsrooms?

coolgeek 16y ago
Indeed, the OpenPublish Drupal distribution would seem to meet the requirements stated. Not to mention a 2-1/2 year head start on understanding and actually delivering on user needs. And a vastly larger developer base than this project will ever dream of having. It drives me friggin nuts when people declare the need to build new customized WAFs and CMSs to meet their highly unique needs. If OpenPublish doesn't meet your your needs, you can customize it for a lot less than $1M. Edit: Here's a good white paper from MediaCurrent http://www.mediacurrent.com/guide-large-scale-publishing-drupal http://www.mediacurrent.com/guide-large-scale-publishing-dru... And the distribution site: http://openpublishapp.com/ http://openpublishapp.com/
- natrius 16y ago
  I addressed this issue in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314146 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314146