That other Bridging organisation, feedesktop.org is doing
pretty well,
inbetween all the nuking and flaming. Why? Because IMO they
host Real
Targets. (not saying OSCMS is not doing that, it is just
less visible, have a
look at http://www.oscom.org/
standards/)
What about moving our (drupal.orgs) MT2Drupal and
PHPBB2drupal conversion
stuff over to them.
That way OSCMS has:
a) real 'products' to market. After all collabation (and
thus umbrella's) in
an OSS world run on code. And thriive on ideas that end in
code. (IMO)
b) A good marketable, spotlight plan: get all the OS CMSes
together. Allow
people to switch between them easier. And so becomes more
visible. Visible in
the freedesktop.org way.
I have seen projects picked away from Drupal under my nose,
simply because
these (tecically inferior) commercial products had a
"name", and because they
were on fancy conferences where Drupal (nor Joomla, etc)
were not.
In order to give Drupal such a name, we need to team up on
that area with the
other OSS CMses and give our "group" such a
name. Elbow ourselves, as group,
into these Fancy conferences, tell the world that we
exitst. Make the name
"Open Source CMS" a 'brand'. For I am sure
that more commericial Drupaleers
will be able to tell that eventhough the OS and Geek world
know about us
(Drupal), a vast mayority of potential Drupal
deployers/users have never even
heard of it. Might even have never heard of "the open
source alternative".
Simply because we are too scattered and not offering a
common denominator (or
at least for the outside world are not) OSCMS does that for
us, and therfore,
really needs our love.
Thanks Gabor for bringing this up.
Bèr
Op zondag 26 februari 2006 22:38, schreef Gabor Hojtsy:
> Hi,
>
> As some of you may already know, OSCOM, the Open Source
Content
> Management Association is in trouble, or in an identity
crisis, or
> whatever you would like to call the current situation.
>
> http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/the-doubtful-future-of-osco
m.html
>
> It needs active members and live participation. The
association has very
> nice goals of encouraging collaboration between
different OSCMS
> projects, but this is only possible if these projects
are taking part in
> the activities. I have been at the last OSCOM
conference, speaking about
> Drupal, and hanging around with other CMS developers,
and Gerhard was at
> the OSCOMTag (at LinuxTag) if I remember correctly,
representing Drupal.
> But (if it works well), OSCOM does not only provide
opportunities to
> show us to the world, but also to exchange ideas and
directions with
> other OSCMS projects. How important and fruitful is
this is probably
> easy to understand for those, who participated at the
OSCMS Summit
> lately. OSCOM is there to provide these possibilities,
if run well, and
> if people don't let it disappear.
>
> Ps. You could easily say that I am speaking water but
drinking vine (at
> least this is how this is said here in Hungary  , since I
am unable to
> help here, just would like to point out the great
possibilities which
> are worth going after.
>
> Gabor
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