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Articles

• http://techmeet.sarava.org/English/CMSProposal CMS proposal
• Software (,) Politics and Indymedia by Benjamin Mako Hill

* see also notes from the CMS workshop at the Oceania Indymedia Conf 2004 and OpinionsExperiences using the different codebases listed above

Codebases

(open publishing software coded within/for Indymedia network) - Please improve this table using the edit button just below the table! (the allowed options can be modified by modifying the call to EDITTABLE - for this you need to edit the whole page using the normal edit button at the top or bottom of the page)

software name	licence	debian package (.deb)	fedora package (.rpm)	gentoo package	easy mirroring (static site)	i18n	wiki	example IMCs
SF Active	GPL	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	sf wvl pgh arg many
MiR	GPL (written in Java but needs only free software to run)	N (debian hand install (en))	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	global uk pl de nl eh ec ch br rogue portland biotech sandiego ftaa seattle in milwaukee
DadaIMC	LGPL	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	dc michigan santa cruz madrid
Oscailt	GPL					Yes		Ireland Oklahoma North Texas Charlottesville Jakarta Bristol Denmark East Africa Nantes Malta
Spip.Indy project -Addon for spip and tools for indymedia website	GPL	N (tgz for all language)	No	No	No	Yes	Yes (spikini)	Nice Paris Lille Toulouse
ActivisMo		N	No	No	No			perth manila darwin
ImcSlash
FreeForm (unmaintained)
ActiveXmlRpc
ActiVe2 (or HyperActive?) (never developed?)
Samizdat	GPL	Yes (testing + experimental)	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Belarus, Ukraine, Toru\xC5„
TranslationTool
Standard Active
twiki (ontario)	GPL + local adaptation	twiki base: Y, indy adaptation: N				some	Yes	ont
Drupal	GPL	Y (stable + testing + unstable)				Yes	Yes	bolivia quebec sydney climate imc scotland radio lot of others
ActiveGR	GPL	N	No	No		Yes	No	Thessaloniki, Athens
tikiMedia Addon for tikiwiki	GPL	N	No	No		Yes	Yes	Old Athens, Valencia, Mexico (in test)
IndybayActive	GPL	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	san francisco bay area
scoop	GPL	Yes
HyperActive	GPL	No	No	No	not like MIR, but creates html pages	Yes	wiki	London Northern England Denmark
WordPress + Indypress plugin	GPL	Only for WordPress			Not natively, but generating .html is possible	Yes	Yes	Napoli Roma

People's Opinons and Experiences of each code-base

Notes from the CMS workshop at the Oceania Indymedia Conf 2004: ImcOceaniaConf2004ContentManagementSystems

Please post your OpinionsExperiences using the different codebases listed above

note: that page hasn't been updated in more then 1 year

Test sites

• Dada: http://dev.dadaimc.org/
• Mir
• Oscailt: http://www.indymedia.ie/devel/
• Samizdat: http://samizdat.axxs.org
• SF-Active: http://212.100.232.179/ (blicero & PseudoPunk can create accounts on it if you want to see the admin parts)
• Tikimedia: http://dev.tikimedia.org

Some other OpenSourceCodebases that are worth knowing about (links off site).

Request for comments

• NntpHeaders: Standards for Nntp distribution
• ImcInterchangeFormat: A standard format for exchanging articles between IMC codebases
• ImcStandardCategorization: A way to have a common set of subject categories?
• Comments about re-encoding media http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2005-February/0221-8a.html

Other Contributions

(contributions to other software/tools)

• TWiki
• Mailman

Tools

• FeaturesCgi
• MultiPlacer
• InPut (indmedia news production utility / dispatch system, fatcow coupon)
• IvenDys (indymedia event dispatch system / dispatch system, bluehost review)
• SMS TOOL Is to integrate sms in internal communication and Dispatch at events[ 1and1 review]
• Indecs - Independent Decentral Content Syndication a XML-RPC P2P Network
• WireFetch - php-CLI script that fetches rdf/xml feeds. can add items to dbase, write new rdf & newswire.
• Tiki Wiki - Tiki Wiki is wiki w/more, an open source php script the DC IMC is experimenting with as an intranet tool for our IMC coop.
• ActiveCal - replacement for the old Active calendar, using Drupal as a base ( 1and1).
• GlossaryTool - A codebase which allows for creating multilingual topic-specific lexicons[ 1and1]
• IndyChat - code behind http://chat.indymedia.org
• OpenSourceInt
• ActivismNetwork - www.activismnetwork.org, www.activismnetwork.org/developers/ - Networking platform: find people, groups, events, in your area ( ipowerweb review).
• indymessage - A simplistic system to post SMS and voice calls to a timeline web page, [ marketclub software]
• isuckfeed - A simplistic rss feed creator for Oscailt comments and hidden posts, anyway multipurpose ( marketclub trading)

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-- AnsTi - 15 Jun 2003
-- ShayneOneill - 18 Oct 2004 (added rfc link)
-- GarconDuMonde - 03 Dec 2004 - added imc drupal dev link
-- MjR - 12 Apr 2005
-- TxopiTxopi - 28 Apr 2005 - added imc's runing mir
-- GeneX - 07 May 2005 - update spip.indy rubrique
-- TxopiTxopi - 21 Jun 2005 - added quebec/drupal
-- ChekovFeeney - 01 Sep 2005 - added oscailt demo site
-- PhilClampin - 22 Nov 2005 - update spip.indy rubrique
-- VinnieC - 04 Feb 2006 - updated list of oscailt sites
-- KwadroNaut - 10 Feb 2006 - updated sydney, using drupal
-- KwadroNaut - 03 May 2006 - added climate imc and malta
-- AlsteR - 29 May 2006 - removed link spam
-- PapaBaer - 28 Oct 2006 - added IvenDys
-- AlejandroMartinJ - 04 Dec 2006 (added madrid/dadaimc) -- GeorgeMathousalix - 03 May 2007 (updated imcAthens/activeGR) -- CaSe - 29 Dec 2007 (added two tools)