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

Welcome to the August 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.

Composite C1

In August, the folks at Composite C1 (news, site) focused on community feature requests. Top requested features were implemented, such as "clean" page URLs, and the ability to more easily upload images and media while editing pages. These features are currently available in beta form.

September brings a Release Candidate of Composite C1 version 3.0. Improvements for 3.0 include:

• Associate a hostname with a content language
• Configure the rules for creating paths
• Open selection trees at the last referenced position, and auto-expand when convenient
• Create new folders and upload media as part of the selection process
• Set test and default values for fields and parameters much easier, with typical choices pre-selected
• Insert image through the visual editor with width and height parameters
• Embed HTML5 tags along with script and iframe through the visual editor's page markup
• Embed form controls using the standard Insert Function dialog
• Overhauled calendar control

The team got a boost of energy from Microsoft (news, site) as well. Developers within the MSDN UK team created a video tutorial on setting up a blog and gallery site using Composite C1 and off-the-shelf packages.

DotNetNuke

In August, DotNetNuke (news, site) ranked number 228 on the 30th annual Inc. 500 list. This list features the United States' fastest-growing private companies. It also ranked 23rd among the 305 in the Software Industry category, and 9th among the 161 companies in the greater San Francisco metro area.

Drupal

In August, Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal (news, site), continued the process of streamlining the development process toward Drupal 8. He announced a new set of conditions for declaring that Drupal 8 is complete, learning from issues with the condition set for Drupal 7.

He also launched the State of Drupal 2011 Survey, to help the Drupal core team and the Drupal Association better understand community needs. The last survey was held in 2008.

Also in August, Drupal companies Phase 2 Technology (news, site) and SubHub (news, site) announced the Drupal Open App Standard Initiative. The goals for this initiative are to:

• Make it easier for Drupal users to extend their sites' functionality
• Allow developers to create apps that work across multiple app marketplaces

This second point is key, because both companies separately implemented Drupal apps within their own ecosystems. Creating the standard, they hope, should keep the market from fragmenting.

Drupal company Acquia (news, site) expanded its Acquia Network with Cloud Apps such as:

• Insight — A dashboard providing Drupal site owners with dynamic, real-time metrics, telling them if their site elements are up to date, secure, and performing well
• Drupalize.Me — A library of more than 335 Drupal training videos from Lullabot (news, site)
• SEO Grader — An internet marketing review tool from Volacci
• Blitz - A load and performance testing platform from Mu Dynamics

Acquia is also entering the Drupal apps market with an Acquia Apps Market slated for Q4 2011. This market (currently in beta) will be accessible through the Acquia Network API. While not explicitly stated in the announcement, the Drupal Open App Standard Initiative talks were "facilitated" by Robert Douglass of Acquia. This fact makes it likely that Acquia will comply with the standard as well.

August brought more Drupal partnerships in the form of Acquia and The Commerce Guys delivering Drupal Commerce, a Drupal e-commerce platform, and Acquia acquiring two services: Cyrve, which focuses on Drupal migrations, and Growing Venture Solutions, which focuses on Drupal security.

Hippo CMS

In August, the folks at Hippo CMS (news, site) received praise in Ars Logica's Compass Guide to Web Content Management: "From early on, the vendor’s experience with large enterprises put an emphasis on multi-site, multi-lingual, multi-channel capabilities; and Hippo’s functionality here is exceptional, ranking second in the overall market."

The Hippo team also announced integration for HTML5 publishing to mobile devices such as the iPad and Android tablets. You can see a demonstration below:

IPad Magazines with Hippo CMS from Arje Cahn on Vimeo

Through September, the company plans to expand its presence in Amsterdam and Boston.

HWIOS

In August, the folks at the HWIOS (news, site) project added:

• Ace editor integration for collaborative text editing
• A simple blog engine
• A preliminary notification API
• Activity and view notification through most of HWIOS
• Class and function docstrings generated by Sphinx
• Opera and Firefox 4 - 5 theme compatibility
• JavaScript and CSS optimization
• Opensim support as an optional module

It's also created a benchmark test for the number of routed websocket loopbacks HWIOS can handle per second. This test will be used going forward, to help track and further optimize HWIOS's performance.

Coming next is a websocket-enabled forum, and an upgrade to the websocket handler to the hybi-10 specification.

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Welcome to the August 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.