An SMF CMS?

Started by Jeff Lewis, February 18, 2005, 11:15:26 AM

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Jeff Lewis

We here at Simple Machines have created a forum. it has often been asked of us if one day we'd create a CMS to go with the forum and to date the answer has always been "We'll see".

The reason being that we are lacking on coders to get one done. Not talentwise but timewise - it's a large chunk of time investment.

As a result, I am in the hunt for portal developers out there to discuss possible future options...if you're a coder, or interested in coding a CMS I am asking you to PM me with your experience in coding PHP and what type of experience you have with SMF.
Co-Founder of SMF

Mysterio

My apologies for asking this, but what exactly is an CMS?

Jeff Lewis

No need to apologize....when thinking CMS think Mambo, phpNuke, postNuke, etc.
Co-Founder of SMF

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Michael Eshom
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Meriadoc

so this would be the Simple Machines Content Management System, or SMCMS? Nice palindrome ;)
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Trekkie101

Quote from: Meriadoc on February 19, 2005, 04:19:18 PM
so this would be the Simple Machines Content Management System, or SMCMS? Nice palindrome ;)
LOL so it is.

Would it be based on SMf code or written seperate and linked or bridged with SMF?

[ maCe ]

:o I'm interested in using and helping make one!

That PM is on its way :P

Kris

Jeff,

Wouldn't it be nice if you first put down here some specifications (MoSCoW-list) you would like to  have in the CMS,

Musthaves:
  • Single Sign-On
  • Category based
  • ....

    Shouldhaves:
  • WYSIWIG editing
  • ...

    Could haves:
  • Plug Ins for externa content

    Wish to have:
  • Downloadable theme for the CMS
  • ....


    (Or let the community make this list for you)

Midgard

A new name for this CMS? (or SMF? or SMCMS?)

as for me, Simplemachines CMS is excellent name :P

Alexandre P.

Aucun support par M.P., courriel ou messagerie instantanée / No support by P.M., email or I.M.

bloc

.err..sounds like a hickup that acronym... SimpleCMS or SimpleMachines CMS is better. :)

nave

me too

anyway i'm clueless when it comes to developing, but i'd be happy to beta test it

Grudge

I could live with SMCM maybe. Dunno, more than three letters in an acroynm tend to be hastle :P
I'm only a half geek really...

bloc

SMS.. ;D  or even SCM..  :)

Well, the name is not the *most* important thing...

nave

we're like expectant parents naming the baby in the first week of pregnancy :P

Meriadoc

Quote from: nave on February 20, 2005, 01:16:51 PM
we're like expectant parents naming the baby in the first week of pregnancy :P
LOL!
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side? : Leo Tolstoy
Everything I know I learned from Calvin and Hobbes.
And patience is about the most useful thing you could ever have.  That and backups. : [Unknown]
If I choose to send thee, Tuor son of Huor, then believe not that thy one sword is not worth the sending. : Ulmo, Lord of the Waters - Unfinished Tales, by J.R.R. Tolkien

CapriSkye

Quote from: nave on February 20, 2005, 01:16:51 PM
we're like expectant parents naming the baby in the first week of pregnancy :P

now you know how they feel

nave

Quote from: CapriSkye on February 21, 2005, 12:31:24 AM
Quote from: nave on February 20, 2005, 01:16:51 PM
we're like expectant parents naming the baby in the first week of pregnancy :P

now you know how they feel
oh but i do, i have 4 children

bloc

Me too,  3 of them here... ;D

Jeff Lewis

Quote from: nave on February 20, 2005, 01:16:51 PM
we're like expectant parents naming the baby in the first week of pregnancy :P

More like expecting parents before conception, heck before dating.

It's still a very early thing and may never come to fruition.
Co-Founder of SMF

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