[pmwiki-users] Meetup? Drupal?

[Crisses]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:08:28AM -0400, Stirling Westrup wrote:
>> Like meetup we'd also want user profiles and RSVP feedback for
>> meeting attendance. There was also talk about using the site to  
>> manage a
>> discussion list. Does anyone have any suggestions about best ways of
>> doing all this?
>
> I don't think PmWiki is (yet?) the best tool for managing mailing  
> lists.
> If I did, then we'd probably be using it for managing pmwiki- 
> users.  :-)
> I'm not saying it can't be done, just that it hasn't been a high
> priority for us yet.

Mailing list or newsletter?

I've been assuming newsletter.  Mailing lists are another beast.

> All I can say about Drupal is that the very limited experience
> I've had with it on one site (as a user, not an administrator)
> has been quite frustrating.  But I think that may be due to the
> way this particular group has installed/configured Drupal,
> as opposed to Drupal itself.  Beyond that anything I might say
> on the topic would likely be just a rant, and the source
> probably ought to be treated as being overly biased anyway.  :-)

All CMS programs (I've tried) are much harder on the page creation  
than PmWiki on its worst of days.  Period.  Hands down.  That even  
goes for Xoops.

Crisses