I finally started working on Sheepology again. I decided that the next order of business is a content management system (CMS). I have spent the last couple months working with Ellington and Jazbox here at the Naples Daily News and have developed strong feelings about these systems and consequently a vision for something better. Coupling this knowledge with my experience of Joomla and Bricolage, I think I have a pretty good idea of what a good CMS should be. (Bricolage is by far my favorite CMS, but not very friendly). And hey, Django was designed as a framework for building content management systems, so I’ve already got a good start.
In addition, the church I am attending has a strong need for a new website. I would like to use Sheepology to do that. Initially the integrated CMS will be simple so that I can get something out the door, but I do have a vision for something larger.
All that said, without thinking about it I packed away my desktop computer into my trunk to free up space on our camper’s kitchen table. Shari got a laptop and I decided that we no longer needed to have the whole desktop taking up all that space. So before I thought to commit my changes I tore it all down.
Thankfully we should close on “our” house by the end of July and all will be well.
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Hey Brian. I’ve enjoyed reading some of your sites today. I’ve also toyed with the idea of making some church management software, but decided that unless I was going to commit full time to it, it would probably be a pretty poor project. I think that my home church would benefit greatly from something like it, too. If I were to write one, it would probably be a LAMP project, but from what I know of Django, it is probably an easier fit. I’d love to get in and take a look at your demo, but someone seems to have changed the password. Is there any way you could reset it?
Dan,
I reset the demo password. It should be OK now.
Myself a PHP and MySQL developer who thinks Django must be pretty cool. And who thinks church networking should be made doable. Single biggest asset that seems hardest to get hands on is email manager. I am about to abandon ChurchDB — unwieldy and for email, unusably weak.
Hope I will be able to try out Sheepology somehow.