About The Web Content Management Systems Meetup Group

WebCMS Group members have stated that they want to cover many aspects of CMS products and their uses in business, academia, government, social networking, and others applications.

Below is the known list of topics that people want to cover in our meetings. Our priorities and schedule for specific topics are emerging as we go.

If you have experiences or expertise that you want to share, or just want to present on the topics below, please contact the Organizer. You can learn a lot by presenting (you don't need specific technology expertise, just a willingness to learn).


TOPICS INCLUDE:

• CMS resources on the Web (portals, blogs, email lists, conferences, wikis, etc.)
  
• Reviews of the most popular CMS products
  
• Comparative evaluations of CMS "products" (both open source and commercial)
  
• Skill sets required to use different systems
  
• Technologies involved (programming languages, databases, GUIs, operating systems)
  
• Security, integration, configuration tools and issues
  
• Review of types of CMS applications (portals, wikis, blogs, WebDev frameworks,
  
• Open Source Hosting and Development stacks (PHP, MySQL, Perl, Python, Java, other)
  
• Choosing a CMS to fit your needs
  
• Choosing an ISP to host your CMS (and the pros and cons of hosting your own)
  
• Developing your own CMS -- pros and cons, when to do this, when not to...
  
• "I need a simple [personal | business | client | TBD] website, what should I use?"
  
• With 350+ CMS systems on the market, how can I choose just (1) One?
  
• others (propose one!!)
  

COOL APPLICATIONS WE WANT TO HEAR ABOUT INCLUDE:

• advertising, business development, finance, marketing, market research
  
• journalism, media communications
  
• blogging, personal websites, journals
  
• news reporting (via RSS feeds, other)
  
• science, medicine, technology, engineering
  
• software engineering and consulting (e.g., development and project lifecycle support)
  
• community building, social networking, grassroots development
  
• other areas (come and let us know!!)
  

REPORTING ON CMS MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

• CMS product development
  
• CMS market development
  
• CMS market evolution and trends
  
• Standards relevant to CMS systems
  

REVIEWS AND APPLICATIONS OF POPULAR CMS PRODUCTS

• Joomla, Drupal, Plone, Mambo, XOOPS, e107, WordPress, PHPBB2 et al, TYPO, others
  
• Commercial CMS products (when do you need: FileNet, Documentum, OpenText, Microsoft, Vignette, Stellent, ExpressionEngine, etc.?)
  
• Java-based: Magnolia, Alfresco, Daisy, etc.
  
• other (TBD)
  

NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR USES IN CMS PRODUCTS

• Web 2.0 & RIA (AJAX, FLEX, .NET V3, OpenLaszlo, PHP/PEAR, etc.)
  
• Semantic Web applications
  
• other (TBD)
  

COMMON ISSUES WITH CMS PRODUCT SELECTION, DEVELOPMENT, SUPPORT, AND MAINTENANCE

• project planning, execution, and management
  
• requirements specification
  
• system specification
  
• design
  
• systems architecture
  
• information architecture
  
• development
  
• evaluation
  
• selection
  
• configuration
  
• migration
  
• scalability, integration, security, robustness
  
• regulatory compliance
  
• software and consulting vendor selection
  
• system and services pricing
  
• other aspects (TBD)
  

What else do you want to or need to hear about?



Join the group and let us know !!!



Come to learn, learn to lead, lead to learn !



We welcome your input.