How Test Servers Lead to Brainstorms and SiteMaker

I've been setting up my own test/practice server for some stuff unrelated to I&I. Or at least I thought it was unrelated. I guess it falls under #2, "Freedom to Experiment."

Looking for open source WebObjects projects, this one rose to the top.

I think implementing something like SiteMaker qualifies as a solution to a problem our users don't know they have, and it's also investigating what other institutions are doing. All part of I&I's vision.  I know I've heard somewhere about UVa investigating a content management system that would be available to all staff and faculty. SiteMaker looks pretty compelling. 

Campus Technology magazine recognizes UM.SiteMaker as the winner of its Innovators-2006 award, in the area of "The Web". — August 1, 2006

Where I had initially intended this server for messing around in PHP and MySQL, now I think I may install SiteMaker and play around with that.