1. The Ultimate Open Source CMS Nathan White Carleton College nwhite@carleton.edu @natepixel

2. Carefully designed. Easy for editors. Powerful. Nothing extra to download. A site is built from pages. Simple. Intuitive.

3. The Tale of Goldilocks And the Three CMSs

4. Any CMS can break, but we sit on them anyway. Goldilocks sits on each of the CMSs to see how they feel.

5. Not much there to sit on. But add some of the 8911 available modules. (as of October 23, 2011) Drupal

6. If you like cobbling together modules, Drupal is for you. Used with permission of the artist - Pepe HeykoopPepe Heykoop

7. Sumo Sack GamerSumo Sack Gamer by Flickr user SunToad - available under creative commons licensecreative commons license A comfy tool for blogging. Not a CMS. Wordpress

8. Reason Just Right. Rocking chair on the deckRocking chair on the deck by Flickr user Ed Yourdon – available under creative commons licensecreative commons license

9. Next, Goldilocks puts on her “user” hat and digs into our three CMSs. How do they taste?

10. Drupal Nodes don’t taste very good. Many steps to make a web page. Blocks, views, menus, nodes, oh my! Drupal is hard.

11. Wordpress Tasty spices, but not enough substance. Creating blog posts is easy. Tools to create / manage pages limited. Content sharing is hard.

12. Mmmm. Just Right! Publishing content is easy. Page navigation is automatically created. Goldilocks only sees the tools she needs.

15. Linking to other content is easy.

16. Goldilocks is a slugabed. When she puts on her “administrator” pajamas, she wants a CMS that lets her sleep at night. She crawls under the covers.

17. Goldilocks sleeps peacefully. She gazes at beaming faces during a Reason training. She explains - “You can do it yourself, here’s how!” Visions of happy templates, themes, and modules dance in her head.

18. Wordpress Goldilocks sleeps nervously... The Theater Director calls, requesting online ticketing. Another call, the Dean, asking for a centralized campus event calendar. Yet another call, Off Campus studies wants a searchable directory of programs.

19. Drupal Goldilocks has a full blown nightmare. She relives the installation of a twitter module. A failed upgrade to Drupal 7 haunts her. jQuery 1.2 becomes a monster. Eeek!

20. Or maybe that’s the bears...

21. The Ultimate Open Source CMS Carefully designed. Easy for editors. Powerful. Nothing extra to download. A site is built from pages. Simple. Intuitive.