Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in October 2009

Welcome to the October 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

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

In September, Alfresco (news, site) launched two offerings:

• A Cloud Content Application Developer Program, using an open source Amazon EC2-ready stack and a developer kit
• Its Partner Solution Showcase, which shows off what various companies have built using Alfresco's content platform

If you're interested in Alfresco's fall worldwide meetups to learn more about new features, future plans and what customers are doing with Alfresco, registration is open. The company also announced that user groups are forming in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Lisbon, Prague, South Africa and Vancouver. A local community wiki is available to help if you want to set one up in your area.

CMIS (Content Interoperability Specification)

Although not a purely open source initiative, the efforts to bring an official standard to enterprise content management has been a joint effort between open source and proprietary software vendors.

As of late yesterday, the CMIS OASIS Technical Committee voted to make the 0.70b draft of the proposed specification the Official Draft and submit that draft for Public Review. We are now waiting for official word of the start of that public review from OASIS.

DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke (news, site) has had a very busy September. There was the formation of a DotNetNuke Board of Advisors, whose initial members are VP of Business Development at Citrix Systems Frank Artale, Founder and Managing Partner at Olliance Group Andrew Aitken, Managing Director of Emerson Street Partners Glen Winokur and Founder and CEO of Snowcovered Brice Snow.

Also, DotNetNuke Co-Founder and Chief Architect Shaun Walker was appointed to the Microsoft CodePlex Foundation's Board of Directors. Walker's job on the board is to add a "unique, practical open source perspective" to the board since DotNetNuke is such a successful open source project built on Microsoft technology.

Another item is the launch of the DotNetNuke Fusion Partner Program. The program offers three levels of participation: Registered, Certified and Gold. Members can become officially sanctioned DotNetNuke system integrators, hosting providers, designers and training partners.

Last but not least, DotNetNuke became a Network Partner for the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program. This program jumpstarts the creation of websites and applications on the Microsoft technology stack. DotNetNuke can now nominate qualifying organizations (web design firms with 10 or fewer employees) for acceptance, and those who are chosen get additional support, training, software and solutions for development and hosting involving Microsoft products, not to mention the DotNetNuke Community Edition.

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Welcome to the October 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

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.