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Tuesday, Sep 2 2008

XOOPS, a portal system going the way of the Web CMS, is receiving significant upgrades. XOOPS 2.3 is claimed by the developers to be “the best version ever of XOOPS.” The purpose of 2.3 is to build a bridge to the next generation of XOOPS. While version 2.3 has not been released, it is steadily approaching fast as the second release candidate is available for download.

Packt Publishing has announced the finalists for each category of its 2008 Open Source CMS Awards. Last year, Drupal was the overall winner, pushing the ’06 overall winner, Joomla!, to the second place.

This year, both are finalists in two categories. But there are many other contenders that may change the final results.

Thursday, Aug 21 2008

Tell Drupal how they are doing by taking the State of Drupal 2008 Survey. The results will be presented by Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s founder, at DrupalCon Szeged 2008 conference in Szeged, Hungary, on August 27-30, 2008.

The goal of the survey is to better understand what Drupal needs to work on and how to prioritize all of that. It is mostly targeted towards Drupal developers. So, don’t delay, speak up and tell Drupal what you want!

Also, check out the Drupalers and survey-takers’ rants and ramblings about the survey and Drupal in general here. Quite a read…

When the results are released, we shall see if Buytaert was right in his predictions for Drupal to be “one of the “big three” Open Source CMSs at the end of 2008.”

Tuesday, Aug 19 2008

The Gilbane Group has announced its Boston conference agenda, as well as the pre-conference workshops. The conference is scheduled to take place December 2-4, 2008, at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, MA. While the full conference program is not yet published, we already have some insight into what will be on Gilbane’s menu this time around.

The agenda includes two days filled with all kinds of enterprise search, WCM, content strategies and social media fun. And this is just a tip of the iceberg!

Friday, Aug 15 2008

Video has quickly become one of the fastest growing media formats on the Internet, and that seems like a logical thing to occur. It makes sense that a company would attempt to integrate an interactive video solution into WordPress and Kaltura is the first solution that we’ve seen to address this. It is a decent try, but it is far from perfect.

Wednesday, Aug 13 2008

The Digitalus CMS aims to empower PHP developers to create content on a solid, simple and extendable content management system that is based off of the widely popular Zend Framework.

Six Apart released a brand new version of Movable Type (MT) that “signals a new era in blogging,” thanks to the newly added social networking capabilities. Six Apart’s icing on the cake is the debut of MT Pro - a product combining Movable Type’s blogging tools and WCM features with social networking capabilities.

Thursday, Aug 7 2008

In a software package it is. Alfresco announced that Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, will offer Alfresco Labs 3 as part of its partner repository.

Ubuntu is an open source OS containing several applications — a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging, etc. And now - ECM functionality, too.

Thursday, Jul 31 2008

Are you running an open source WCM website that needs a little social interactivity? You can get with it KickApps. The SaaS social media solutions provider has been working hard to provide their services to open source content management solutions like Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. You can learn all about it at the Linux World Expo in San Francisco next week.

Wednesday, Jul 30 2008

EssentiaESP developed by Essentia is a community-based platform designed specifically for commercial open source in order to efficiently build and manage vibrant open source communities.

The product combines principles of social networking, community management, collaboration and content management in a platform that supports multiple CRM integrations.

Tuesday, Jul 29 2008

Water & Stone, a web development company specializing in Open Source technologies, released a popularity survey of open source content management systems. In the analysis of 19 of the most prominent open source content management systems, Water and Stone evaluated CMS’s on the basis of Rate of Adoption and Brand Strength, as well as a variety of other viability indicators and trends.

Friday, Jul 25 2008

At OSCON yesterday Dave Recordon, of Six Apart, announced a new nonprofit organization. The Open Web Foundation has been created to support the development and protection of non-proprietary specifications for Web technologies.

According to their website, “the foundation is aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities deal with the legal requirements necessary to create successful and widely adopted specification.”