[NGO] mailing list integration - folks are working on Sympa + Drupal integration

[Jon Stahl]

Folks intersted in CMS + Mailing list integration might find it
interesting to note that our peers in Drupal-land are working on
integrating Drupal with Sympa.

http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-dev/2006-09/msg00032.html

http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-dev/2006-10/msg00002.html

http://wikis.bellanet.org/floss-dgroups/index.php/Technical_Plan

http://wikis.bellanet.org/floss-dgroups/index.php/Main_Page

For those of you not already familiar with Sympa, it is a solid,
battle-tested-at-scale email discussion list server.  It's Perl + MySQL.
But most significantly, it has a SOAP interface, which is what makes
cross-platform integration possible.  We have run Sympa here at
ONE/Northwest for over five years now, serving over 180,000 users with
1000+ lists.  It's good stuf.  

Thought it might be interesting for those who are pondering these issues
to have on their radar screen.  The issues and use-cases they are
grappling with are quite similar to ours.

best,
jon
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Jon Stahl, Program Manager
ONE/Northwest: Online Networking for the Environment
jon at onenw.org  206.286.1235x15