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the Free CMSWire NewsletterWelcome to the June 2011 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.
Alfresco
In June, the folks at Alfresco Software (news, site) launched Alfresco Team, a content collaboration product that includes iOS apps for both the iPad and iPhone. This product focuses on sharing and collaborating on content, with subscription pricing for organizations, teams and individual departments. Install on your own servers or EC2.
Features include:
- Site-based collaboration for multiple teams and groups, with wiki, blogs, forums, calendar and data lists
- Secure document and file sharing with user invites and permissions
- User dashboards
- Likes, favorites, tags and comments
- Content activity streams
- Pre-built workflows like "Review and Approve"
- Drag and drop file uploads
- In-context previews for most common file types
- CIFS shared drives, WebDAV, CMIS and SharePoint protocols
- Themes and custom logo uploads for site personalization
- Support for English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese out of the box
Composite C1
In June, the folks at Composite C1 (news, site) became one of the four featured apps in the Microsoft (news, site) Web Gallery. The team also improved life for their Windows Azure users by adding support for hosting data on SQL Azure, and making it easy to publish content and code changes to multiple web servers across multiple regional hosting centers.
A number of new packages are also available, including:
- Facebook (news, site) Like and comment features
- A jQuery Slimbox 2-based image gallery
- A widget for Microsoft Translator so visitors can translate your site's content easily
- A Google Picasa image gallery player
- A wiki that allows updating content on a public site
The team also expanded starter site options, adding simple HTML templates and ASP.NET .master page-based templates.
DotNetNuke
In June, the folks at DotNetNuke (news, site) appointed Mitch Bishop as their Chief Marketing Officer. He comes to them from virtualization company iRise.
The company was also named a Red Herring Top 100 North America winner, and received over 175 submissions for their DotNetNuke World call for speakers. There were 27 sessions and 22 total speakers selected.
Drupal
In June, Drupal (news, site) founder Dries Buytaert blogged about Drupal release date planning, the Drupal mood cycle, and got an introduction to same-sex marriage issues in the US by talking about Friendfactor.
On June 21, Drupal company Acquia (news, site) introduced Open Social Business Software Commons 2.0, the next generation of their social business publishing platform. They've also partnered with Engine Yard to offer fully managed Drupal and Ruby on Rails apps, and Acquia was selected by the Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2011 as a Launch Pad finalist.
Hippo
In June, the folks at Hippo CMS (news, site) launched the Apache Camel plugin for workflow creation, ecommerce plugins for managing online payments through popular gateways, and a Magus integration plugin to help comply with web standards and other custom content compliance rules.
They also launched a CMIS integration with Nuxeo, which they'll be demonstrating on July 20th.
HWIOS
In June, the folks behind the HWIOS (news, site) wrote a blogging application with a WYSIWYG editor that allows images to be resized inline and a push update notification system. Upcoming plans for July include:
- Refactoring the collaborative text editor to move CPU-hungry operations to a webworker
- Improving its DOM-handling
- Adding an activity application to the empty right widget
Next year they'll focus on real-time collaboration features. Possible options include:
- P2P voice/video chat and webinar functionality
- A websocket forum
- A presentation and vector graphics extension for the collaborative drawing application
- More virtual world integration (Opensim/RealXtend Tundra)
- RDF and haystack search capabilities
Joomla
In June, the team behind Joomla! (news, site) announced that Joomla 1.7 is coming on July 19. The community sneak peak reveals a few of the new features:
- The installer is now fully "ajaxified"
- TinyMCE upgraded to version 3.4
- Component batch processing in the administrator, like the Articles and Weblinks managers
- New JToolbar buttons, making it easier to implement features like Save, New and Save to Copy
- The ability to limit article submission through a menu link to a specific category
- The ability to add a menu item that's a link to a saved search
The team says to expect continued releases every six months, they're already looking forward to 1.8. In the meantime, Joomla 1.6, has been downloaded almost 2 million times.
Liferay
In June, the folks at Liferay (news, site) announced that the upcoming Liferay Portal EE 6.1 will offer full CMIS compatibility. The existing version, Liferay Portal EE 6.0, does offer partial CMIS compatibility already.
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