R K Misra's online initiative ChangeIndia.in. Runs on Joomla and uses Fireboard a forum module for Joomla. The site is hosted at Y! India and E-mail at Google. Changeindia.in doesn't have clean URLs its kind of hard to have custom paths defined in Joomla. No candidates announced for Karnataka elections. RK is a great believer in Private Public Partnership's potential to change India amongst other things he advocates.
lok-paritran.org uses Drupal as the CMS for its site and uses Drupal's in-built forums and looks like they have Gallery integrated into their drupal installation. Though they have clean urls they are not taking full advantage of Drupal's ability to define custom URLs and the clean URLs don't extend all the way to the Forums. Its not clear to me what exactly is Lok-Paritran's agenda, lots of high sounding philosophy and no practical agenda un-like RK's PPP mantra. And shudder they use a M$ Word document to announce their Bangalore candidate list.
Funny how many of us think that Joomla is a pretty CMS but drupal is a workhorse with lots of features and a clean codebase. It would be interesting to draw conclusions about politics of people who use Joomla, Drupal or raw PHP :-)
Jaago.in is built using PHP and shudder these guys are appealing in a very demagogic fashion to the middle class's insecurities and sound downright populist with Rs. 2/KWh electricity provisioning they are promising. There is no candidate list they have announced for Bangalore yet. Their frontpage boasts of a typical GOI like site welcome screen with a enter into link and a flash object.
Wahjava says: so in next elections, no need of polls, just check out the CMS of their site, and compare it on some CMS ranking site, one whose CMS has higher rank should be declared winner :P
birkin bag lovers must know
birkin bag lovers must know normally the authentic Fendi handbags in discount for out of fashion and defect. That is
to say please do not look for the birkin bag in authorized stores. Try another way, such as the foreign trade
plant. Generally speaking, in the manufacture process, there are always some defective handbags. Of course the top brand
corporations like Fendi will not admit this kind of handbag to be sold in its shop. But if you do not care about these small
defects, why not go to these factories and own it in lower price? Purchasing the discount Fendi handbag on the internet shops
is also a good way! Some old-fashion handbag will be off the shelves and the price may be a little surprise.
Well, as we know, there is a group of women with high taste but not-so-high salary in favor of new and defect-free Fendi
handbag. What should they do? Well, they also can get what they want just following some selection tips.
errr...I think you just lost
errr...I think you just lost a reader...
why the vitriol man? I was just responding to the last line of your post.
ehh...the < /sarcasm >
ehh...the < /sarcasm > wasn't there the first time around...guess drupal chews up the markup...in that case, I'll keep reading... :-)
about emocrat.org usability, the whole site is open source so you know the scene - if you don't like it, fix it...seriously though, I do this stuff in my free time so its bound to suck atleast a little bit.
I had posted another comment on your blog but now I check and its not there....strange....I'll paraphrase here.
India may not be ready just yet for a political platform but the day is not far. There is going to be a mushrooming of political parties on the internet (you know, corporate guy lost his job in the recession, thinks he knows how to run a country, got $4.99 for a web host and a domain...). While normally the ensuing chaos might have provided lots of sound and fury but nothing of substance, I believe the power of the Web is that it can carve out a meaningful agenda out of all these disparate voices. I think that providing the average professional with a political platform is one of the most important political acts one can perform today.
Anyhoo, my 2 paise...
Yep strange it is that the comment disappeared with nary a trace
Sure if its an Open Source site, feel free to syndicate any political articles from my blog into your blog.
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India may not be ready just yet for a political platform but the day is not far.
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-Amen
The level of engagement( not volumes ) on all the existing platforms whether it's orkut's 15000 plus communities or changeindia.in is pretty pathetic for now. So best of luck trying to engage the educated classes which suffers from a severe attention deficit disorder syndrome.
vitriol ?
Vitriol is reserved for the bureaucrats only. I was only trying to be a bit humorous with a mild dose of sarcasm.
But on a serious note your site does need usability testing. It asks for a location and then gets stuck right there ? There is nothing else to do either on RTI or the carpooling applications.
emocrat.org uses django...do
emocrat.org uses django...do I win?
Not so soon buddy
Django is a development framework though it originated with the need to write a CMS for a newspaper ? So I'll accuse you of being an elitist with nothing to do with simplistic and petty minded educated classes of India.
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By the way did you get your site a dose of usability testing at all. Shouldn't be so eager to perform a victory dance lap before your site gets an audience.
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-Tarun
And what about tarundua's tarundua.net
Tarun Dua's tarundua.net uses Drupal as CMS for its site, with friendly URLs, and excellent content (some of the time). He is a great believer in startups. Although, his next startup's name is not announced on the site yet.
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