Open source web content

For this assignment wer had to chose one of the open source Web content management systems (WordPress, Joomla/Drupal...) and prepare an evaluation chart similar to the previous project (software packages). Finally, which system would we choose and why?

 

As you can see, I chose Joomla for open source Web content. Joomla get a lot of special functionality and it is quite easy to use. The key values of Joomla are freedom, equality, trust, community, collaboration, usability. Joomla can support different business models and it is easy to customize your own website depends on what you need for your brand image. You can add different languages because your website has to work locally and globally. 

 

"Freedom" was chosen as our topmost value for many reasons. We want to give people the freedom to build Web sites with which to publish their ideas. We want to give people the freedom to collaborate with others in their own language. And we want to give people the freedom to use, copy, modify, and distribute the code and protect those freedoms using the GNU/GPL. We also want to provide people with the freedom to be a part of the community and to participate in the future development of the project."
 

"Equality" was chosen as our second key value for many reasons. Naturally we want to ensure that the community is open to everyone regardless of race, sex, age or religion. We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to download the software regardless of their geographical location, which includes being aware of issues such as limited bandwidth. We want people to be able to use it in their preferred language, whatever that may be, so internationalization and localization are important too. We must also consider accessibility, both of our Web sites and of the software we produce."
 

"Trust" is a necessary foundation for the project. For example, it should be possible for people to trust that the project will deliver on its promises; that people in our Working Groups should be able to trust each other. Indeed, the project and the community exists largely because of a web of trust."
 

"Community" was chosen as our next key value because we are fundamentally a community project and would be unable to achieve anything without the community. Furthermore, the tools we provide are often used in the context of building communities. A sense of community should pervade everything we do. What we do, we do as a community."
 

"Collaboration" is another theme running through the project. Joomla lets people collaborate—to say work together on things—which is not necessarily part of community. Also, other things we do, such as in Joomlacode and the documentation wiki, encourage collaboration as do all of our work processes. The GPL in general encourages people to work together and the applications created by the project and even the project's culture encourage this."

 

"Usability" is a key value because we want everyone to be able to make use of our software, our documentation, our forums, and all our other sites. By making usability a key value, we hope to guide decision-making towards wider use and greater participation."