@iRonnie - That may be the case, but without totally dumbing things down to the point where you lose functionality over simplicity, where do you draw the line? Unless you provide a simple manual to start things off, how do you solve such a problem?

@Ozh - Yeah, I think it sucks that it came to a draw with no declared winner.

@Brad - I think Brad was highlighting the fact that it took a large amount of custom code to make WordPress do something it wasn't meant to do out of the box while not so much so with Drupal or Joomla.

@George DeMet - George, thank you very much for stopping by and hosting this event. I'm definitely interested in her second evaluation. Do you have any timelines as to when another event like this might take place?

@Jane Wells - Hope you had a great time down in Austin. Judging from all the pictures, looks like everyone had a great time plus some great food.

Logged in as a Subscriber eh? That would explains all of the confusion with Marybeth trying to figure out where to go in order to accomplish a task.

Sounds to me based on your review that the entire process needs to be created and overseen by a committee of people who have no bias or experience with any of these three content management systems. Which is sort of weird as then you would have people with no experience settings up and conducting the text. Not sure how you could strike a balance between the two. However, looks like lessons were learned and I too will be interested in seeing this type of test performed in a second round.

Is there anything you saw Marybeth do in WordPress 2.7 that immediately made you make a mental note to address in 2.8?