Open Sourceme

If you're looking for an open-source CMS - that's content management system, which means a program to manage your web site - you could do a lot worse than to browse around opensourceCMS. They have (counts) 33 portals, 7 blogging systems, 3 e-commerce packages, 7 groupware systems, 5 forums, 3 "e-learning" packages and 4 other thingies all set up ready for you to test drive.

Unfortunately, they only have packages written in PHP, which is not my favourite langauge (and far from my favourite programming paradigm), but if you're looking for something useful rather than something elegant, it's a darn good place to do a bit of tyre-kicking.

I'm looking for a package that integrates blogging, forum, and portal functions and doesn't suck. So far I haven't found one, which is why I'm writing Minx. Although to be honest recently it's been more of a case of not writing Minx. Sigh.

Update: A number of the packages seem to have had their tyres kicked rather too thoroughly and aren't working right now. They get refreshed (says the site) every hour, so maybe they'll come back soon.

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