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

Welcome to the May 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.

Calenco

In April, Calenco released version 2.0 of its open source web CMS. Aimed at content creators, Calenco helps to make documents with a professional look and feel. Features include:

• Modular, resusable content storage for text and images
• Content filtering
• Multi-language content management
• Content preview in the browser
• XML content storage
• WebDAV interface
• Multi-format output into PDF, HTML, RTF, CHM and other formats

In May, they plan to work on improved file navigation, ZIP upload and comment support. You can try a demonstration here, and you're invited to send feedback to contact@calenco.com.

DotNetNuke

In April, DotNetNuke (news, site) released DotNetNuke Professional and Elite Editions 5.4, which are fully compatible with ASP.NET 4. This release includes new document management capabilities that target organizations sharing documents within intranets and extranets. The DM features come through a partnership with Xepient which adds the Xepient Open-DocumentLibrary to these Editions.

DotNetNuke was also selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner.

Drupal

In April, the Drupal (news, site) community gathered in San Francisco for DrupalCon. Unfortunately due to a wee volcanic incident many European participants were unable to make their flights, but they organized dozens of impromptu mini-DrupalCons across Europe instead.

Microsoft, of all companies, announced support for making Drupal and MSSQL Server interoperable, the White House released code to the Drupal project and the Drupal Association decided to begin a search for a full-time Executive Director. Keep your eyes peeled for the announcement and job search posting.

In other news from DrupalCon, Acquia (news, site) announced the launch of a Drupal software publishing program in conjunction with Phase 2 Technology. Each Drupal distribution offered through this partnership will come with Acquia support and infrastructure services including:

• Support and maintenance
• Acquia Hosting
• Remote Administration
• Acquia Search

Other announcements from Acquia include a partnership between Acquia and Rackspace to offer Acquia's support for Rackspace's enterprise customers using Drupal and a global training program for Drupal Designers and Developers through a partnership with Chapter Three.

eZ Publish

In April, the folks at eZ Publish (news, site) released version 4.3 on time after 6 months of work. Highlights include:

• A new administration interface
• The eZ Teamroom extension, which brings new collaboration features requested by customers and partners
• A new User-Generated Content Module
• A new version of the Apache Lucene (news, site)/Apache Solr (news, site)-based eZ Find
• The changing of eZ Components to Zeta Components, which has been proposed as a new project for the Apache Software Foundation (news, site).

Coming in the summer is the eZ Conference 2010 on June 24 - 25 in Berlin. Looking ahead to the fall, they've announced the release of a toolkit for iPhone and iPad applications.

Hippo CMS

In April, the folks with Hippo CMS (news, site) added partners focused on marketing (theFactor.e) and rich multi-channel mobile solutions (Xaton). From April into May, the Hippo CMS team continues work on version 7.4, due this summer. This release will make it easier to:

• Share content and page configurations across multiple sub-sites
• Use cross-domain linking to link documents within different sub-sites, running below different host names
• Integrate other presentation layers such as Apache Jetspeed Portal (news, site)

Hippo CMS will be holding community meets at events in May:

• On May 3 - 5, 2010, at CMS Expo (news, site) in Evanston, IL
• On May 4 - 6, 2010, at J. Boye in Philadelphia
• On May 18, 2010, at CMS congres in Congress Triavium Nijmegen
• On May 18 - 21, 2010, at Apache Lucene (news, site) EuroCon in Prague
• On May 25 - 27, 2010, at Gov 2.0 in Washington, DC

For exact dates and times, watch the Hippo site.

Joomla!

In April, the Joomla! (news, site) community site began featuring a series of blog posts about major Joomla sites and interviews with the developers who built them. Also, Joomla! organization Open Source Matters (news, site) selected public relations firm VOXUS to "help drive awareness about community initiatives, product developments, events and organizational goals."

OSM also announced the installation of new officers to the Board of Directors: Ryan Ozimek is now President, Jacques Rentzke is now Secretary and Dave Huelsmann was re-installed as Treasurer.

Events such as Joomla!Day France, Joomla!Day Netherlands and Joomla!Day Sweden all took place in April. Support for three new languages was added, aimed at the Indian subcontinent. The Joomla! community forums reached the milestone of 2 million posts, and a new, updated list of vulnerable extensions was released.

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Welcome to the May 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.