I just found opensourceCMS.com as I'm researching for a class I'm giving on CMS's and noticed there is not Ubercart in their "e-Commerce" list. Thought it might be a good place for UC to appear once its Beta
Mon, 11/05/2007 - 16:00
Re: opensourceCMS.com
Agreed. Feel free to remind me if I forget when the time comes. 
Re: opensourceCMS.com
I'm a moderator at opensoucecms.com (I'm a forum moderator, and I don't get to decide what they set up to demo.)
I can tell you, though, that the modular nature of Ubercart (since it relies on Drupal) will be a big problem for it to get listed there. If every CMS that had some really great modules/plugins were listed, it would be way too much for Chanh to maintain.
That being said, when you're closer to that non-alpha stage, you can email Chanh at oscms.com and see if anything can be done. There's not a lot of ecommerce applications out there.
As for putting up only 1.0 releases, they'll actually set up known systems that are stable. It's just a number, anyway!
~silverwing
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Very cool. Thanks for stopping in silverwing, and thanks for the insight. 
(And I agree w/ your sentiment about Word Press != social networking platform. They just wanted to spread some $$ around and could only give 1st place to any given system in one category. That makes Drupal's 2nd place finishes suspect to me, but I'm not complaining too much since it won overall. 
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Well, I was just in the neighborhood (looking to see if 0.8 was ready!) when I came upon this thread
(You can ask Chanh if you can bundle up Ubercart with Drupal and the required modules and offer that up for inclusion. Don't quote me on that, though. Just a thought.)
Off-topic bit here:
And I'm still baffled at WordPress as social networking system. Elgg should have won that. But I'm happy that Drupal won overall. And I'm still in the process of migrating my site over to Drupal (again) to enjoy a more mature system. (Everytime I see howdy I want to scream!!!)
Off-topic bit ends.
~silverwing
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They seem to have 'DrupalEd' installed at www.opensourcecms.com so I guess it wouldn't be impossible. One of the greatest features of Drupal I find its its one-install-many-sites feature, each with its own set of modules or optionally a shared set across all. This is how I develop man sites on my laptop and test upgrades on all the sites I'm maintaining. If Chanh nees any help tell him to drop me a line here.
Actually the reason I found opensourcecms.com is because I'm starting to teach a CMS course at a Berlin university and as one of the exercises I'm going to get the students to compare 2 CMS systems for features and ease of use. opensourcecms.com is perfect for this as they are Print Media students and not technical enough to install and setup a system themselves.
I'm actually using the research these students to do a good survey of the current CMS systems to there as there are so many now and I'd like to design my own with all the best features form all the existing ones.
This discussion is quite helpful
I think Wordpress is quiet good 'Distrubuted social networking system' with trackback/pingback functionality and blog-rolls. I think distrubuted networking is the way forward and the more technology's and services that emerge the better its getting. del.icio.us, flickr, google/yahoo maps do one thing, and do it well as well as opening up to other sites to use easly, like facebook: the mothership for distrubuted tech. to land on. Its left MySpace dead in the water while sharing trafic with the other sites that integrate with it.
mm-ya
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@CpILL... you should probably get the university to fly me in and do a special presentation sometime. I had no clue you were in Germany or even teaching a course. That's awesome news! I hope it's a lot of fun for you, and I agree about the distributed social networking thing... it's like someone needs to roll out Webring 2.0. 
Silverwing,
When Andy
Silverwing,
When Andy mentioned opensourcecms.com, bundling Ubercart and Drupal together was the idea that we had. Using drupal profiles, you can build your own custom drupal installation. If we bundled a package that contained drupal, ubercart, its needed modules, and the drupal profile all you would need to do is extract the files and run install.php?profile=ubercart and the installer would do the rest of the work. If submitting a package in this manner works for you guys, I think I'll do that. That would actually fall in line with another plan of mine, using existing code from the UberInstaller to build a module that can automate the process of building such a package.
CpILL and Shawn,
DrupalED,
CpILL and Shawn,
DrupalED, as far as I can tell, is a 'fork' of Drupal offered as one cohesive package. (I'm using the term 'fork' loosely.)
If Ubercart were to offer a download with Drupal - everything in one - UberDrupal, the chances of its inclusion on opensourcecms.com will increase. And if Ryan were to offer this package - to everyone - I'll be championing it's inclusion.
~silverwing
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Re: CpILL and Shawn,
DrupalED,
I think that releasing a package with Drupal, Ubercart and other required modules would be a fantastic idea. An installation profile could be created that would ease installation. Providing the bundle as a single distribution would surely help newer users to get started too.