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

Welcome to the February installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS 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.

Kaltura Takes Its Video Solution to Joomla

Kaltura Unveils Free, Open Source Edition Of Video PlatformKaltura (news, site) is making a number of moves lately with its open source video platform. After being listed as one of 10 Innovative Application Companies Under $100M to Watch by IDC you probably expected to start seeing things happening. And happening they are.

 

Joomla, Drupal Now Support Google Friend Connect

Joomla, Drupal Now Support Google Friend ConnectDrupal (news, site) has long considered itself a social software solution as much as a web content management system. That may ring even more true not only for Drupal, but Joomla (news, site) as well, as Google announced that both open source WCMS now integrate Google Friend Connect.

Choosing a CMS: Plone and Its Competition

logo-plone-2009.pngMartin Aspeli of the Plone (news, site) project recently sat down and evaluated a "whole slew" of web content management systems. From there, he's digested his observations and shared them in the form of a fairly extensive writeup. While it's obviously Plone-centric, there's a lot that applies to anyone who's trying to choose what Web CMS they want to work with.

Alert: What's Coming In Open Source CMS In 2010

Normally in this space we look back over the current month and forward into the next month at what the various open source CMS projects are up to. But rather than blindly putting out an update for January, we thought we'd look farther ahead into what everyone wants to accomplish throughout next year. Call it our open source 2010 predictions with less guesswork and high hopes.

7 Ways to Blog Using Your Mobile Phone

Whether you are a blogger writing for food or more established at the art of drawing ire from the Associated Press or the FTC, chances are you’re dedicated to whatever it is you blog about. As the world slowly succumbs to wireless fidelity, subway systems and municipalities at the same time, blogging is no longer limited to those on laptops at the local coffee shop or at their home office. No, blogging via mobile device is now more accessible and viable than ever.

CMSWire steps beyond the traditional boundaries of non-traditional media platforms and offers a few tools for mobile blogging. From iPhones to Blackberry to Androids and Storms, these mobile platforms can help you chronicle your adventures while on the go or from where ever you please.

Plone, Drupal Win Packt Open Source CMS Awards, More Coming

packt_logo_2009.jpgIt's that time again -- Packt (news, site) is announcing the winners of its Open Source CMS Awards. The lucky ones are narrowed down via community voting, and then judges make the final evaluations. Throughout this week we'll find out who won in each of the 4 categories:

  1. Best Other Open Source CMS -- Congrats to the Plone (news, site) project for retaining last year's title!
  2. Best Open Source PHP CMS -- Congrats to Drupal who's win was announced this morning.
  3. Most Promising Open Source CMS -- Coming November 11, 2009.
  4. Best Overall Open Source CMS -- Coming November 13, 2009.

Runners up for 2009's Best Other Open Source CMS are dotCMS (news, site) and mojoPortal (news, site). The winning projects receive prize money as well, $2000 to Plone and $500 each for dotCMS and mojoPortal. Previous winners for this category include Plone's 2008 win and mojoPortal in 2007.

Those who made Packt's 2009 Open Source CMS Most Valued People list were also announced. the list includes:

  • Robert Campbell for CMS Made Simple (news, site
  • Dries Buytaert for Drupal (news, site
  • Louis Landry for Joomla! (news, site
  • Ryan thrash for MODx (news, site
  • Joe Audette for mojoPortal (news, site
  • Kasper Skaarhoj for TYPO3 (news, site
  • Leo Feyer for TYPOlight (news, site
  • Taiwen Jiang for XOOPS (news, site

List members were nominated by the developers and community of each project.

[Editor's Note: Check out our 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share report for details on the 20 most popular open source content management systems.]

Secure Your Web CMS with SecureLive, Software Plus Realtime Monitoring

SecureLive-leader.jpgFor most of us, a good day is being able to go about our business without any annoyances getting in our way. Unfortunately, when your business involves the Internet, mere annoyances rate much higher on the "good" scale than, say, discovering your Web CMS was hacked at least six months ago and you've been leaking critical user data like a sieve.

If that user data involves sensitive information such as medical data, credit card numbers, bank account information or anything else that is subject to either regulations or sleepless nights over losing your shirt, you should at least investigate security add-ons.

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

Welcome to the November 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 for your project updates.

Joomla Delivers Last Alpha for Version 1.6

Joomla Delivers Last Alpha for Version 1.6 This week team Joomla (news, site) announced another baby step toward the release of the much anticipated v1.6 of their platform. Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2 brings with it enhancements in popular areas such as Access Control List (ACL), as well as several others:      

Joomla 1.6 Security Controls - A Huge Step Forward

Joomla Open Source Web Content Management System (CMS) The next major release of the Joomla web content management system will be Joomla v1.6 (news, site). This version has been in the works for some time, and was released as a public alpha version earlier this year.

The most significant changes for this release are the new advanced security and permissions features. These provide system administrators control over who can edit what and access which components, modules and plugins.

Report in Depth: Most Popular Open Source CMS 2009

Report: Open Source CMS Market Share 2009On Friday we announced the release of the second annual 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report. The project was a collaboration with water & stone, an APAC-based interactive agency. The initial announcement addressed what the report covers, its purpose and some key highlights.

For the sake of disclosure, while I did look over the preliminary survey and advise on some tweaks, I otherwise wasn't involved in this report and am looking at this data with fresh eyes and no particular bias from the side of CMSWire.

Now let's take a look more in depth.

Report: The Most Popular Open Source CMS, and Then Some

Report: Open Source CMS Market Share 2009Following on the heels of the 2008 Open Source CMS Market Share Report, this year we collaborated with water&stone to produce an improved 2009 version. The report is an interesting study of 20 dominant systems in the market. It's really not about which CMS is best, nor about relative comparisons beyond brand strength, sentiment and adoption patterns. We're aware of this.

Traditional and Social Media Analysis

What the study did was sniff around the nooks and crannies of our increasingly electronic and publicly broadcast lives and endeavor to quantify the relative brand strengths, brand sentiments and adoption patterns for the top 20 most popular content management products. In addition, we ran a survey on CMSWire.com a little ways back. With this tool we were able to directly pose questions to our readership -- and more than 1200 of you took to the task (thank you!).

This year's analysis looked at Alfresco, CMS Made Simple, DotNetNuke, Drupal, e107, eZ Publish, Jahia, Joomla, Liferay, MODx, OpenCms, phpWebSite, Plone, SilverStripe, Textpattern, TikiWiki, Typo3, Umbraco and WordPress.

Key Conclusions: 3 Dominate, Many Are Vibrant

What jumped quickly out is that The Big Three -- Joomla, WordPress and Drupal -- led the survey set across a wide range of measures. However, the top slots are not static, Joomla has gained market share over Drupal, and WordPress with its hosted version has what looks like a smoother path to adoption.

The report identifies less obvious stars. Alfresco, a vendor focused on both document management and web content management, performed well across a number of categories, and led the Java-based open source CMS race over its nearest rival, Liferay. DotNetNuke led the .NET-based open source CMS category, though Umbraco is up and coming.

The report goes on to identify reasons why DotNetNuke's position may soon be changing. In addition to naming the market leaders, the study identifies projects whose market share and brand metrics indicate they are at risk or facing a closing window of opportunity. A metric we found of particular interest was the product evaluation rates versus the adoption rates.

The 90+ page report is available for free and includes profiles of each of the systems covered.

Soapbox Simple Web CMS Offers Unlimited Pages, Users and Storage

soapbox_logo_2009.jpgNew Web CMS Soapbox tries to differentiate itself in a crowded market. Having been developed organically as the system that its creator used to develop websites for others, it is available now as a hosted service for all to try. 

Industry Event Planner (15-Sept-2009)

Ah yes, this is indeed a glorious era for learning and networking. There are conferences and webinars coming out our ears, wifi spots a-plenty, 3G data services galore and if you're lucky, sponsored drinks at the bar.

So, what say you to some mingling? If you’d like to get out and partake in a solid (or virtual) handshake or two, our weekly events list is designed to help. Every Tuesday we plug as many relevant events as we can find into the big list and publish it, just for you.

Are we missing something? Don’t hesitate to add your event to our events calendar (view all events). And if you've got feedback on the coming events — good or bad — do share it in the comments below.

September Events

September 14-15 (San Francisco): TechCrunch 50

Last year, we hosted 250 start-ups and early-stage companies pitching to nearly 2,000 attendees, including 200 corporate buyers, VCs and angels and more than 150 members of the press.

We're proud of our irreverent history, and we're back for v3.0.

September 14-17 (Cologne): DMS Expo Cologne 2009

DMS EXPO presents the entire range of topics, from the creation over the translation and administration to the publication of documents and contents.

September 15-16 (Toronto): IDEA Conference

IDEA2009 brings together the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners: sharing the big ideas that inspire, along with practical solutions for the ways people’s lives and systems are converging to affect society.

September 19 (Makati City): WordCamp 2009

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

September 19 (Atlanta): Drupal Camp 2009

Drupalcamp Atlanta is an attendee driven, completely volunteer initiative modeled after the open, participatory nature of barcamps. The event is catered towards those who have a like-minded interest in Drupal or simply want to find out more about Drupal in general. The format will involve a mixture of advanced planning and impromptu breakout sessions. We will offer two tracks – one geared towards beginners and the other towards more intermediate to advanced Drupal users.

September 19-20 (Portland): WordCamp 2009

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

September 21-22 (Moscow): Alfresco Developer Intensive Training

Intended for developers starting a project or wishing to sharpen their skills on Alfresco, the intensive training course covers two essential courses (Alfresco System Administration and Alfresco Content Modeling), before moving on to the complete Alfresco API Development course.

September 22 (Boston): Integrated Web Analytics Breakfast Seminar

Maximize your Web Marketing Budget and Strategy with the Power of Web Content Management (WCM) and Integrated Web Analytics

September 24-25 (Huntsville): Collaborate Conference

The Collaborate Conference affords clients, VARs, and Partners an opportunity to explore best practices and see all the newest features and functionality of CNG’s solution first hand.

September 25 (Atlanta): New Media Atlanta 2009

The New Media Atlanta conference is a high level, business dialog about how social media is changing marketing and messaging – and in fact, changing the nature of all communications. We’ll talk about strategies to leverage its power to build your company, product, brand, service, etc.

September 26 (Seattle): WordCamp 2009

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

September 26-27 (Birmingham): WordCamp 2009

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

September 26-27 (Sheffield): CMS Made Simple Geek Moot

The developers of CMS Made Simple have finalized plans for the yearly developer conference. However, there is one major change… we're inviting you to join us.

On 26-27 September, CMSMS will host the first public Geek Moot event at The Showroom in Sheffield, UK. There will be plenty of presentations by the devs and others, events, networking and just general geeking out. There are plans for evening events in the works and they will be announced soon.

September 28-29 (Atlanta): Hannon Hill Cascade Server User Conference

Last year's Cascade Server User's Conference was a huge success, and we're already working on making this year's even better. We'll be offering more user-driven sessions, more hands-on functionality-related demos, more basic-user intro sessions, and more case studies. You'll have the opportunity to learn more about Cascade, interact directly with the Hannon Hill team, and learn from and share your experiences with other users

September 30-October 1 (Washington, DC): Rethinking Corporate Communications

In its second year, RETHINKING CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS is an interactive and intimate conference for corporate, government and non-profit communicators. Learn from the most perceptive thought leaders the skills and best practices essential for business success this year.

September 30-October 2 (London): Future of Web Apps

We have a fantastic line up from some of the industry's leading professionals. You'll be hearing from: Mozilla, Twitter, TechCrunch, Facebook, digg, Merb, jQuery, 280North, Virgin and more.

October Events

October 1-2 (Paris): Open World Forum

The Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) movement is revolutionizing IT strategies and the software industry.

October 2 (Seattle): ExpressionEngine Roadshow 2009

For those that don’t know, the EE Roadshow is a one day event where some of the best and brightest EE minds meet up, share ideas, and improve each other’s professional lives in a great environment.

October 4-7 (Los Angeles): Adobe MAX

MAX 2009 is an extraordinary opportunity to learn new skills, explore emerging technologies, and connect with thousands of other industry leaders, Adobe products users, and Adobe teams.

October 8 (Utrecht): Hartman Event

The HartmanEVENT will teach you everything about strategies, methodologies, techniques and tools to get value from your information. On October 8, meet national and international gurus and peers who will combine theory and best practices in an educating and interactive style.

October 11-15 (San Francisco): Oracle Open World

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 is your opportunity to be a part of the conversation. And this year, based on your feedback, we’re inviting customers, partners, and developers to play an even larger role in the show.

October 12-15 (Vienna): IFRA Expo

IFRA Expo is the international communication platform for the newspaper industry and its suppliers, covering the entire range of products and services for newspaper magazine production and bringing together the right people in the right atmosphere

October 12-13 (London): CDN Strategies Summit

This event will evaluate the rapidly changing CDN landscape, and using case studies examine market entry and expansion strategies, and options for technical architecture. The event is designed as a forum for executives in the CDN market, their suppliers and investors to educate their investment decisions.

October 14-15 (Zurich): Day Ignite 2009

Join the Conversation on the Future of Content Management. Day brings together its growing customer community in both Chicago and Zurich to share strategies, stories, and successes driving new content management initiatives with CQ5. Network with your peers and engage key members of the Day team to get the most out of CQ5 and add your input to the future of content management.

October 15 (London): Global Information Management Conference

Hear the challenges our customers faced when supporting their global markets, how they addressed their multilingual content requirements by adopting a Global Information Management strategy, encompassing authoring, content management and translation.

October 15-16 (London): Streaming Media Europe 2009

Streaming Media Europe covers the business of online video and the technology of streaming, video on demand, webcasting, IPTV, and mobile.

October 15-18 (Orlando): 54th ARMA International Conference

This is the premier event in the records and information management field, drawing more than 4,000 professionals from around the world.

October 19-22 (Las Vegas): Microsoft SharePoint Conference

If you’re an IT Professional, an IT Decision Maker, an Architect or a Developer you will find a deep set of technical content to give you a kick start for SharePoint 2010 and further your skills and knowledge with SharePoint Server 2007.

October 20-22 (Sacramento): GovLink Conference 2009

GOVLINK CONFERENCE 2009 provides networking opportunities between government agencies, prime contractors, and small businesses.

October 25-30 (Orlando): Open Text Content World 2009

Discover new ways to Capitalize on Your Content at Open Text's 2009 global conference.

October 27-19 (Chicago): Day Ignite 2009

Join the Conversation on the Future of Content Management. Day brings together its growing customer community in both Chicago and Zurich to share strategies, stories, and successes driving new content management initiatives with CQ5. Network with your peers and engage key members of the Day team to get the most out of CQ5 and add your input to the future of content management.

October 31 (Utrecht): WordCamp 2009

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

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