06-22-2011, 02:05 PM
Joomla 1.6 now offers Access Control Lists (ACLs), which will allow you to have multiple contributors with differing permissions on different articles or categories.
A brief article about that:
http://www.yireo.com/tutorials/joomla/jo...ting-group
Joomla would need a plugin to do the social things you are looking for. A paid plugin is probably going to offer better reliability and support than the totally free ones. A couple well known social extensions:
http://www.jomsocial.com/
http://www.joomlapolis.com/
Agreed with Mavic about the trickiness regarding calendars. Same experience here - every calendar is a LITTLE different than what you want, and a calendar is a complex thing to try to make or hack on your own. That said, there are many calendar plugins for Joomla, including some that just display calendar info from another source, like a Google Calendar.
Here's a demo of a premium template designed for a social/community site.
It includes styling for social plugins Jom Social and Community Builder, and also demos a calendar modules that displays a Googel Calendar:
http://demo.rockettheme.com/feb11/
It is generally considered that Joomla has a more complex administration that some other CMSs, like WordPress. But you are talking about a pretty complex site, so...
I personally find Joomla administration to be friendlier than Drupal, but YMMV.
A brief article about that:
http://www.yireo.com/tutorials/joomla/jo...ting-group
Joomla would need a plugin to do the social things you are looking for. A paid plugin is probably going to offer better reliability and support than the totally free ones. A couple well known social extensions:
http://www.jomsocial.com/
http://www.joomlapolis.com/
Agreed with Mavic about the trickiness regarding calendars. Same experience here - every calendar is a LITTLE different than what you want, and a calendar is a complex thing to try to make or hack on your own. That said, there are many calendar plugins for Joomla, including some that just display calendar info from another source, like a Google Calendar.
Here's a demo of a premium template designed for a social/community site.
It includes styling for social plugins Jom Social and Community Builder, and also demos a calendar modules that displays a Googel Calendar:
http://demo.rockettheme.com/feb11/
It is generally considered that Joomla has a more complex administration that some other CMSs, like WordPress. But you are talking about a pretty complex site, so...
I personally find Joomla administration to be friendlier than Drupal, but YMMV.