[webteam] radical simplicity

[Sander Devrieze]

2008/5/12 Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>:
> I'm currently reading a book entitled "Radical Simplicity", which
> happens to be written by one of my cousins:
>
> http://isbn.nu/0865714738
>
> As we are discovering, Drupal is not radical simplicity. Earlier today
> we had an impromptu chat about that in the webteam room:
>
> http://logs.jabber.org/webteam@conference.jabber.org/2008-05-12.html
>
> In particular, we talked about the possibility of scrapping Drupal
> altogether and simply using XHTML and server-side includes, or at most
> XML+XSLT, to generate the jabber.org website. This is what we do for the
> xmpp.org site and we never have a problem there. Is the jabber.org
> really all *that* different or special that it requires a full CMS?

If jabber.org is meant to become a community-driven website, you don't
want plain XHTML or XML+XSLT. You want things that invite people to
contribute, to try new things, and to *break* things. With "things" I
mean website content, website layout, website features, and so forth.

-- 
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.