Re: Video on RDFa in Drupal - examples and use cases

Dear Schemantic Wub,

Our plea to Buytaert was based on needs not fulfilled by Drupal or for that matter ANY CMS listed on cmsmatrix.org, and detailed why we deemed it necessary to incorporate SW functionality into Drupal.

CMS experts who we consulted, who build large web sites and portal sites for global non-profits pointed out Drupal as being the most promising prospect for inclusion of SW technologies in future releases.

We are not responsible for spaghetti coding of others or substandard software engineering.

We do agree with you that most CMSs are poor products in terms of software engineering.

The next best thing does not exist yet, unfortunately.

Milton Ponson
GSM: +297 747 8280
Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
www.rainbowwarriors.net
Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide
www.projectparadigm.info
NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project Paradigm
www.ngo-opensource.org
MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of data and information for sustainable development
www.metaportal.info
SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies in the Metaportal project
www.semanticwebsoftware.info


--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Schemantic Wub <_@whats-your.name> wrote:

From: Schemantic Wub <_@whats-your.name>
Subject: Re: Video on RDFa in Drupal - examples and use cases
To: "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 8:13 PM


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On Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 06:24:59PM -0700, Semantics-ProjectParadigm wrote:
> That is good news! Glad to see Drupal planning for the future and semantic web.
> My personal plea to Buytaert in October 2007

good tidings on your personal plea!

around mid2006 i decided that Drupal needed SW technologies, so i wrote the minimalist SW-infected CMS subset i needed in Ruby. inc comments/whitespace 1299 lines or so..

its good to see the overengineered sphaghetti solutions (written in PHP!) saw the light a while back. clearly due to your incredible insight

 to consider incorporating SW technologies in future releases has paid off.
> Still a long way to go though.
> 
> Milton Ponson
> GSM: +297 747 8280
> Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
> PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
> Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
> www.rainbowwarriors.net
> Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide
> www.projectparadigm.info
> NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project Paradigm
> www.ngo-opensource.org
> MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of data and information for sustainable development
> www.metaportal.info
> SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies in the Metaportal project
> www.semanticwebsoftware.info
> 
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> --- On Mon, 3/16/09, Stephane Corlosquet <stephane.corlosquet@deri.org> wrote:
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> From: Stephane Corlosquet <stephane.corlosquet@deri.org>
> Subject: Video on RDFa in Drupal - examples and use cases
> To: "RDFa" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, public-rdfa@w3.org, "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>
> Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 6:21 PM
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In an attempt to make RDF mainstream and to prepare the way for Drupal 7 shipping with built in RDFa, we've put together a screencast [1] advocating the use of RDFa on the web. It uses the existing RDF capabilities of Drupal. This video was shown last week at DrupalCon DC 2009, and today Drupal lead Dries Buytaert blogged about it [2]. See more details on the making of the video [1].
> 
> regards,
> Stéphane.
> 
> [1] http://groups.drupal.org/node/20167
> [2] http://buytaert.net/rdfa-and-drupal
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