Citizens media platforms

In a discussion on the online-news list about citizens media content management systems, several writers have nominated some open source systems worthy of consideration.

Travis Smith points to Opensourcecms.com, which lets you try all the open source CMSs, front end and admin side, before you install.

Also, Travis says, keep an eye on J-Learning, which will launch
soon with helpful info about this and other aspects of hyperlocal
community media. My company is building it as a partner site to the
recently launched J-Newvoices.

Timothy Brown says: Check out Mamboserver.

Kpaul Mallasch recommends Scoop, which powers Kuro5hin, and CMSmatrix.

Curt Wohleber says: We're using Mambo for our citizen journalist site, www.mymissourian.com. Easy to install, a pain to customize if you want to modify or create design templates. One of our student editors was able to plug in a more user-friendly WYSIWYG content submission form and image upload mechanism. The admin interface is clunky. Lots of functionality. Not my idea of the perfect CMS, but it gets the job done.

And Adam Gaffin recommends Drupal — which we'll be using for Ourmedia.org.