Thanks for advise on school #cms #lms @TheDrupalist @chill_creations @CanYouRecommend @joomlablogger

Our High School wants to relaunch theire website into a community solution.

I would recommend an open source solution to be more independend and flexible. So I did a litle research and asked the community via twitter about an recommendation and luckily got some interesting feedback:

Here is a discussion from another school:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/771467/which-one-is-the-the-best-joomla-dotnetnuke-umbraco-drupal-or-dotcms

So after reading this, I am even more convinced to setup an framework of open source applications as a combination of CMS + LMS + Intranet = High School Platform

LMS - Learning Management Systems

http://sakaiproject.org/

http://moodle.org

http://www.olat.org

Blackboard, Cornerstone, SumTotal and Element K. Learn.com

Intranet - Community Management Systems

http://openatrium.com/features (based on drupal)

http://blog.webdistortion.com/2009/11/05/8-free-and-open-source-intranet-solutions-reviewed/

CMS - Content Management System

Drupal 

http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education/resources

http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education

Joomla 

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/living/education-a-culture/teaching-a-learning

http://people.joomla.org/groups/viewgroup/124-Joomla+for+Schools.html

http://www.joomlashack.com/products/shack-packs

DotNetNuke, Umbraco, dotcms