http://www.opensourcecms.com/ lets you test drive sundry open source CMS, Blog, Wiki, photo and other systems. I thought some here might be interested.

-Zeke

I spent 3-4 minutes on the site and couldn't find a single reason why I should care about anything there. No disresepct intended to you for posting the news of course.

It just looks like a poorly put together collection of pages and none of them seem to sell me on the idea of investigating further, let alone why I should care about that CMS versus any other (Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, etc..)

Any insight?

Well, of course if you're not looking into CMS or other online colaborative systems, there's no value. But having found this site last night after browsing dozens O.S. CMS web sites & sourceforge pages, reading through ungodly amounts of useless buzzwords, it was nice to find someplace where I could quickly log in and fiddle without having to do any downloading/install/setup.

That said, I didn't find anything that looked like it would suit my needs - so there's value in knowing that. The value in that site's the live test drive part and a collection of links to developer sites. Googling 'Open Source Content Document Management' does return an awfully large number of hits, so I found that site useful.

Also, since there have been a couple of 'which bbs/etc/etc is better' type threads here in the past few years, I thought there might be some interested parties. (Yourself excepted so it seems )

-Zeke

I'm probably more interested in CMS than most people here. I'm just saying that what I found there just didn't come close to the other "Open" products I mentioned. They also have demos available and sites that are much more captivating and informative. Though all CMS sites do seems a little heavy on the buzz.

In the end it was simpler/faster for me to manage my whole site manually with an offline site program like GoLive and good FTP program like Transmit. I'd still like to move to something like Joomla and integrate suport for WordPress, but I have no time for that right now and the learning curve with most of these systems as well as the modification needed don't leave me eager to start.

Joomla can be a right pain in the arse, especially when it comes to WYSIWYG editing, one editor works for one component and f*cks another etc...

Not bad in general though.