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the Free CMSWire NewsletterWelcome to the May 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.
Backbase
In April, the folks at Backbase (news, site) opened an office in New York City, while expanding its US-based team. It also released Backbase CMS 5.0, an add-on module for Backbase Portal. Backbase CMS 5.0 is powered by Alfresco Software (news, site) 3.4 Enterprise Edition, and offers:
- Web applications for creating, reviewing and publishing content
- Replication support from the content repository to the delivery network
- Content types and workflows, plus sample applications demonstrating their use and customization
April also brought deep integration with DSL Tridion. Throughout May, it will continue working toward Backbase Portal 5.0. Scheduled for a June release, Backbase will be demonstrating the new version at Finnovate Spring and Netfinance 2011: Chicago.
Composite C1
In April, the folks at Composite C1 (news, site) released Composite C1 version 2.1.1 and added it to both the Microsoft (news, site) Windows Web App Gallery and Microsoft WebMatrix.
Version 2.1.1 features the first of a series of starter sites being added to the Composite C1 Setup Wizard. This first starter site offers HTML 5 templates, including basic navigation and multilingual support, for front-end developers who want control of their XSLT and CSS markup and layout. Additional starter sites focusing on other layout template schemes will follow in May.
Other releases in April included optional packages such as easy Silverlight embedding, source code presentation and support for Windows Identity Foundation. On top of that, this month saw the launch of a CodePlex site featuring the source code for 48 Composite C1 extensions such as Blog, MVC Player and the C1 Package Builder. The source code is available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 1.1. These packages can also be installed through the C1 Console's wizard.
Finally, April saw a 20% increase in Composite C1 downloads and forum activity compared to March.
DotNetNuke
In April, the folks at DotNetNuke (news, site) opened voting for its DotNetNuke Design Challenge 2011, a skinning contest that encourages more free skins and designs. Voting enters you into a daily prize draw as well.
Coming in May, members of the DotNetNuke team can be found at CMS Expo presenting its DotNetNuke track and exhibiting at Microsoft TechEd.
Drupal
In April, Drupal (news, site) founder Dries Buytaert announced that he's establishing an Office of the CTO at Acquia (news, site) so he can "scale himself." He's also appointed heads for Drupal 8's Design, Web Services and Configuration Management initiatives.
Also, Acquia announced a record first quarter for 2011: Increasing revenue 300% compared with the first quarter of 2010 and more than 20% over the previous quarter. As business has increased, it has expanded, growing from 66 employees in 2010 to 109 employees today.
Hippo CMS
Coming up in May, the folks at Hippo CMS (news, site) released Hippo CMS 7.6. New features for this release include:
- A reporting suite for marketers, providing views into content authoring teams, workflows and publishing trends along with integration with Google Analytics (news, site)
- Social Media Publishing integration, linking Hippo CMS with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, as shown in the demonstration video below
- New clustering capabilities for high-volume content
- The ability to change content types within live environments and across a DTAP environment
- Native support for embedded Tomcat deployment
- The Hippo Trail, an interactive training website that walks developers new to Hippo CMS through implementation basics
A tour of Hippo CMS's new social media features.
Throughout May, the Hippo CMS team plans to expand on the new reporting features, extensibility, providing context-aware content and personalization.
Jahia
In April, the folks at Jahia Web CMS (news, site) announced its Beta Partner program, which offers advanced training, advanced support, technology feedback, co-marketing and the ability to share new programs and modules on JahiaApps Forge.
Coming on May 3, the Jahia team plans to release Jahia 6.5 beta 3. This version includes a number of new features. One set revolves around collaboration, in the form of wikis, forums and blogs. Another set focuses on the social experience, such as:
- myConnections, which enables users to interact from Jahia's interface
- myPortal, which offers users a netvibes-like personal portal, which they can customize with content from within Jahia and external sources
- rating, which allows users to assign ratings to any content from a Jahia-based project
Jahia 6.5 beta 3 also now supports HTML 5, and offers a new chart data module.
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