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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.
CMS Made Simple
In May, the folks at CMS Made Simple (news, site) started working on its next major version: CMS Made Simple 1.10. Their focus for this version includes:
- Optimizing memory use through "lazy loading of modules"
- Cleaning up internal objects, classes and arrays for access to better PHP5 coding methods
- Providing support for methods for better multi-language facilities
- Adding admin area changes such as new default settings for content types
- Optimizing CSS file loading
Expect 1.10 in last summer or early fall. Also, Packt Publishing (news, site) released The CMS Made Simple Development Cookbook by Samuel Goldstein, with 70 recipes for extending the system.
DotNetNuke
In May, the folks at DotNetNuke (news, site) opened the Call for Papers for DotNetNuke World 2011. The conference will be held November 9-11 in Orlando, FL, with the theme "The Cloud, Mobile and Social Revolution." The deadline for paper submissions is June 8.
The company also announced the winners of its DotNetNuke Design Challenge 2011:
- Smartphone Category: StoneCold
- Traditional Category: Business Rainbow
- Zen Garden Theme: OpenBook
- Community Favorite: SMB
DotNetNuke Corporation was selected as a Finalist in Red Herring's Top 100 North America award, which honors the year's most promising private technology ventures in the region. This is its second consecutive year among the finalists.
Drupal
In May, Drupal (news, site) founder Dries Buytaert announced a new policy around fixing bugs for Drupal 7. Traditionally the project has handled bugs in the latest development release (currently Drupal 8) and then backported to the stable releases (Drupal 6 and 7 right now). However, due to Dries' focus on getting Drupal 8 up and running, he fears the growing bug backlog is preventing Drupal 7 from stabilizing.
So, he's giving Angela "webchick" Byron, the Drupal 7 co-maintainer, commit rights for bug fixes in Drupal 8. This way they'll keep the same process but the fixes can arrive faster for those using Drupal 7.
Speaking of Drupal 8, Buytaert has appointed Jacine Luisi to be the initiative owner for the Drupal 8 HTML 5 Initiative. He's also appointed Gábor Hojtsy as the Drupal 8 Localization and Internationalization Initiative Owner.
Hippo CMS
In May, the folks at Hippo CMS (news, site) won Content Tool 2011 at Tools No Fools. This award is given by event attendees after watching project members get grilled by a jury. Hippo also received a nomination for the Computable Awards, which is given to companies, projects and individuals whose technology work "has clearly been distinguished."
The Hippo project also integrated with Magus, which is an accessibility reporting and monitoring tool. See a video explaining the Magus Active Standards Plugin for Hippo CMS:
Hippo CMS and Magus Active Standards plugin from Mathijs Brand on Vimeo
It's also added support for Grails GSP MIN, which allows you to use GSP templates in non-Grails web applications.
HWIOS
In May, the folks at HWIOS (Hybrid Web in OpenSim) focused on refactoring. It also added a new feature, which was required because HWIOS is a websocket CMS framework. Such frameworks usually can't use URLs in the navigation bar.
The new feature uses the HTML History API to push and pop each domain:/path/to/url/'s state to the navigation bar as necessary. Now HWIOS users can use their back and forward buttons properly. However, this technique isn't yet supported by search engine crawlers.
The project has also created a community and demonstration site: HWIOS.org, which works with the Chrome/Chromium browser and Firefox 4. In June, it will focus on improving and documenting the codebase, to prepare HWIOS core as a solid websocket CMS framework on which to build real-time CMS applications.
Joomla
In May, the Joomla! (news, site) project reached the following milestones:
- 23 million downloads of Joomla overall, with over 1.7 million of version 1.6
- Releasing a new version every 6 months, Joomla 1.7 is expected in July
Also, MailChimp announced Expanded Joomla Integration, and Joomla Day Malaysia's coming up on June 25.
Magnolia CMS
In May, Magnolia CMS (news, site) announced that it is one of the winners of the Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award, which honors the year's most promising technology ventures in the region.
mojoPortal
In May, the folks at mojoPortal (news, site) released a major update to its commercial Form Wizard Pro extension. This update offers some new features:
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