Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in October 2011

Welcome to the September 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.

Drupal

In September, Drupal (news, site) founder Dries Buytaert named Nat "catch" Catchpole as his Drupal 8 co-maintainer. One reason he was chosen was to help remove complexity from the Drupal 8 core.

Those interested in hearing Dries' thoughts on the state of Drupal, as of August, can do so here:

In September, Drupal company Acquia (news, site) was positioned as a Visionary in Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for Externally Facing Social Software and the Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace. Also, the company's Acquia Network was recognized by KMWorld Magazine as a Trend-Setting Product for 2011.

Hippo

In September, the folks at Hippo CMS (news, site) continued its participation in the Apache Software Foundation (news, site) Rave project, which is a new web and social mashup engine, which recently announced its .3 Incubating Alpha release. It's also added an integration between Hippo CMS and e-commerce solution Magento.

If you'd like to absorb the hard-won lessons that Hippo has learned over the years, even if you work in another brand of web CMS, check out its series of blog posts: Tales From The CMS Demo Chair.

HWIOS

In September, the HWIOS (news, site) project went on the hunt for new sponsors, when they learned they're about to lose their current sponsor. Without a sponsor, they'll lose their only full-time developer. If you're interested in sponsoring new milestones, contact Jeroen van Veen at info@os-networks.net.

Current work being undertaken includes:

• A major theme design change, with a fixed with two-column look
• Right-click context menus available in each module
• A new widget with the activity and messenger both merged together
• A smaller Collab-editor, moved from Ace to Codemirror2, which also brings new features
• New support for the Hybi-10 websocket

Proposed work for the future:

• Completion of the new design and context menus
• Adding a websocket forum
• Adding HTML5 webcam conferencing
• Adding a flexible module loading system
• Creating a mashup with the Tundra2 3D Internet platform

Jahia

In September, the folks at Jahia Web CMS (news, site) released its first service pack for Jahia 6.5. Improvements included in this pack are:

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Welcome to the September 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.