[imc-sf-active] announcement: CMS proposal and kick off irc meeting

[Quinten Steenhuis]

This proposal sounds sensible. Unfortunately I won't be able to attend 
the meeting, but I wanted to make sure that security concerns are also 
addressed. Uniformity of CMS can be dangerous if it makes it easier to 
coordinate an attack against all IMCs at once. Currently the small usage 
base for the major IMC codebases provide a less-tempting target for 
hackers than Mambo, etc, except politically motivated ones who are 
usually only a short-term nuisance. Of course these more standard CMS 
packages do get frequent updates, but security is definitely something 
that should be taken into account. Perhaps it would make sense to choose 
2 or 3 different CMSs, and add some scripts to lock down or strip out 
unused pieces of the codebases that could make the software more vulnerable.

Pseudo Punk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During the techmeet in Sao Paulo, Max, Ryan and a number of other
> Indymedia techies and developers have brooded on a proposal
> for the future of indymedia CMSes:
>
> http://techmeet.sarava.org/English/CMSProposal
>
> The basic idea is to move away from developing indymedia-specific
> CMSes and instead pick a general CMS and customize it for indymedia.
> This way, we hope to reduce the work load and improve indymedia
> sites in general.
>
> The next step in moving this proposal proposal forward will be an
> irc meeting on september 10th 2006, at 1700 UTC in the #cms channel
> on http://chat.indymedia.org
>
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
>
> Bart
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