Association seeks new CMS, content migration, and ap conversion
The Association is seeking a vendor to handle the migration of http://www.ala.org, which includes 11 division subsites, a number of online publications, and our site for the public (I Love Libraries http://www.ilovelibraries.org) to a new content management system.
Simplifying the site organization and maintenance is a key component of what we hope to achieve in the new CMS.
We are also seeking an alternative solution for creating new and transforming existing forms
(several hundred active and legacy Cold Fusion applications and FormMail). We are not wedded
to the continued use of Cold Fusion and want to move away from it, so the system should allow
for arbitrary data sources (separate MySQL databases) and other languages besides CF, including
but not necessarily limited to Python, PHP and Ruby. It is crucial that we have the ability to
either render existing CF aps so that they look and behave like the rest of the site or move them
to another system that can do so.
If the recommended system is not open source, it would be very desirable if ALA could license
the original code for internal use. At the very least, we would want access via an API.
