Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in June 2010

Welcome to the June installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.

Alfresco

Starting in May and going into June, Alfresco Software (news, site) began planning their first Developer Conference for the fall, one in the US and one in Europe. The audience is novice through advanced developers, and sessions will be delivered by Alfresco engineers and consultants. There will be in-depth sessions on content modeling, CMIS, Activiti BPM, performance and migration. This event will likely span multiple days and may have an optional group programming effort.

Alfresco has also launched itself into the Business Process Management (BPM) space by hiring away Red Hat's Tom Baeyens, founder and architect of the jBOSS jBPM project, and hiring him to be the Project Lead for Activiti along with his second-in-command, fellow BPM architect Joram Barrez as a Core Activiti Developer. They've also hired Barry Duplantis as the Alfesco VP of Customer Services.

Finally, they're expecting the pitter patter of little pages in the form of Professional Alfresco: Practical Solutions for ECM from Wrox Press. Alfresco CTO John Newton, Chief Architect Dave Caruana and members of the engineering crew put their blood, sweat and tears into the pages. You can find a review here.

DotNetNuke

In May, DotNetNuke (news, site) announced a partnership with Engage Software to provide new training options to DotNetNuke users. This partnership will allow the prjoect to offer live and recorded webinars along with onsite training to DotNetNuke users worldwide. To lead the charge, former Master Trainer with Engage Software, Chris Hammond, is now DotNetNuke's Director of Training.

They also released version 5.4.2, which focuses on enhancements such as increasing the number of users an installation can handle to 2.14 billion and on updating the Installation Wizard's Polish and German language packs.

May also had DotNetNuke Co-Founder and CTO Shaun Walker participating in the Gilbane Conference on a panel regarding open source tools, and he's about to be the keynote speaker at the "European Day of DotNetNuke," of which DotNetNuke Corp. is a Platinum Sponsor.

Hippo

In May, the folks with Hippo CMS (news, site) completed an integration layer with Cap Gemini to pull information from SAP applications directly into the Hippo Portal frontend. They were also nominated by computable as ICT-government project of the year in the Netherlands.

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Welcome to the June installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact at your project for updates.