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Bryght: Redesigning Bryght

By Bryan - Posted on 16 July 2006
"We know we've got lots of work to do on Bryght -- a refresh of this website, new hosting options, new team members, and some new technology. The team recently sat down and had a bit of a roundtable discussion on what the new site should include.

Above all, we need to work on messaging. Meeting us in person, you'll get a fairly clear story: Bryght focuses on open source technologies, with Drupal, Jabber, and identity being the main areas (mobile is sneaking on to this list as well). Engagement and involvement with the open source communities around those technologies is part of our mandate, our work with SpikeSource and Drupal being one example of that (more on that relationship soon)."

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#1 Service of Software?

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 17, 2006 - 2:53pm.
I've never understood if Bryght is a service for Drupal or its own software? Will anyone elaborate?

#2 Bryght is primarily a CMS

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Submitted by Bryan on July 17, 2006 - 11:33pm.

Bryght is primarily a CMS (based off Drupal), but they do offer some services such as hosting. From bryght.com: "Bryght is a content and community management system that allows you to create and maintain a dynamic website for your organization (corporation, non profit, learning institution, etc.) without having any technical knowledge. It is based on the open source Drupal system."

I'm not too familiar with the Bryght community so others with more knowledge may want to chime in and add more.

Bryan

#3 Bryght is Drupal

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Submitted by Boris Mann (not verified) on July 18, 2006 - 12:43pm.
Did I mention we need to work on our messaging? :P Bryght's ASP hosting service currently runs Drupal 4.6. We maintain a large multisite installation with a mass hosting tool we wrote called HostMaster. We run core Drupal plus a handful of contributed modules, plus pre-configured "sane defaults" of this whole bundle, called Bryght Basic. In addition, we keep all sites updated with current security patches, plus maintain several backports of the next version. The 4.6 version we currently maintain includes free tagging support, a path alias performance patch, aggregator HTML filtering options, RSS 2.0 and full/teaser/title only feed selection support. Basically, we strive to have a good out of the box experience, with a package that is great for web designers, consultants, or developers that want to have a maintained version of Drupal for their clients. All of the modules and modifications we make are given back to the community...we polished up multi site and got it into core, and pioneered the install system and the concept of install profiles. Hope that helps -- contact me if you have any questions.

#4 One Bryght Question

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 18, 2006 - 9:56pm.
Boris, Me, Anonymous :-) again. So how is the hosting of Drupal different than those provided by other Internet Host providers?
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About this CMS Enthusiast

Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch. Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government.