"Last month I went to CMS Expo in Evanston, IL where they were
running programming tracks on Wordpress, Joomla!, and Drupal as
well as a smattering of presentations on others including Plone (a
Python based CMS) and Alfresco (a semi-open sourced CMS). In
addition to the chance to see folks kicking the tires on different
systems, I was looking forward to getting together with George
DeMet of Palantir a Chicago Drupal shop, to go over the results
from the South By Southwest (SXSW) CMS Showdown he'd created for
the March SXSW new media festival. George recapped the showdown at
a session that kicked off the Expo and introduced folks from teams
for Joomla! (Steve Fisher) and Drupal (Colleen Carroll, Jeff
Eaton)
"The SXSW CMS Showdown took the Iron Chef concept and pitched
three teams against each other using three different CMSs to create
a website based on a common design given to them. The teams had 100
hours to work on the project (team hours, not man hours) and had to
give the fruits of their labors back to the open source community.
Palantir, which George is an owner of, being a Drupal house, went
in with high expectations."
