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On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 08:21 AM, Michael Slattery wrote:

> I just scanned this article about open-source CMS:
> http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2897730-92,00.html

Interesting article, thanks for the link.

> There was no mention of Bricolage, which made me wonder how to go
> forward with PR/Evangelism. The article linked from the main
> bricolage.cc page has whetted my appetite for more.

:-) The way to go forward in terms of PR/Evangelism is to tell
everybody you know about it, and show it (via demos) to as many people
as you can. I suspect that Bricolage wasn't mentioned in that article
because we weren't represented at the open-source CMS conference. I
shoulda been there -- sorry.

> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for getting the word out?
> Principal bricolage authors, are there certain functional targets that
> need to be met before the trumpeting begins? Also, does anyone have
> suggestions for how to position Bricolage in the CMS universe?

No, no functional targets, though I'm going to send a message to -devel
shortly discussing performance and reliability issues. As for
positioning, although I haven't used any of the software from the
so-called "big CMS vendors", my understanding from people I've talked
to who *have* used them and seen or used Bricolage is that it's largely
competitive with the commercial CMS products -- much more so than with
its open-source cousins. The eWeek review confirms this (though I wish
it mentioned *which* commercial products, and how we mop the floor with
them!).

So I would position it thus: It's for medium to large size
organizations that need to manage a moderate amount of content and have
the IT and hardware resources to run a large-scale application.

Make sense?

Regards,

David

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