Open Source Cms News & Articles

This week, new research shows a huge increase in the use of video email in SMBs. In the meantime, Symantec released email security SMB edition with simplified licensing.

If you want to get involved with the Interactive Knowledge Stack(IKS) Early Adopters program then now is probably a good time to start looking at your options.

The Interactive Knowledge Stack, or IKS (news, site) has just announced details of how it intends to proceed with its prototypes: an Alpha Version available between July and September this year and a Beta Version -- which you could be a part of -- targeted for April to June next year.

Welcome to the March 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.

Packt Publishing (news, site), one of our favorite providers of IT books for professionals, has just kicked out a book to help you boost Drupal 6 performance.

The book is aimed at users of all experience levels--that includes you, beginners!--as well as, designers, themers and webmasters.

DotNetNuke (news, site) is having a little party today to celebrate the landing of US$ 8 million in additional Series B funding for their open source .NET web content management platform.

The financing, led by new investor UV Partners and including August Capital and Sierra Ventures (existing investors), will -- of course -- help fund product development and marketing and sales initiatives.

2009 was a strong year for DotNetNuke, with a new version of their Web CMS platform, a revamped partner program, the launching of their commercial edition(s) and the acquisition of Snowcovered (catch all the news here).

With this additional funding, we should expect even more things from the open source company this year, even though as President and CEO Navin Nagiah says, they didn't really need the money:

DotNukeNuke had phenomenal market traction during our first year. We signed nearly 500 customers for our subscription products and closed nearly 40,000 transactions to 15,000 customers on Snowcovered.com, our online marketplace for third party add-ons. While we did not need capital given our revenue traction, we liked the partnership and the terms so we decided to close a new round. We welcome and look forward to working with UV Partners.

Need it or not, the funding will go a long way to expanding the existing platform and perhaps a move into new markets. We want to know what they will spend on the money on exactly. Come on DotNetNuke, leak the roadmap!

As promised late last year, and after weeks of public beta, Nuxeo (news, site) has released the GA version of its new Digital Asset Management (DAM) product.

In addition to extensible architecture and a decent feature set, one of the main selling points seems to be Nuxeo DAM’s compliance with the CMIS spec.

The Interactive Knowledge Stack, or IKS, has reached its second year. In that time they've made promising headway, but like the rest of the semantic web, they're really just getting started.

 Open source Web content management provider XOOPS (news, site) is making some solid headway--a fact recently highlighted by Alexa.com. According to the Web information company, XOOPS’ reach increased by 57% over the last three months:

For dotCMS (news, site), eCommerce + Web CMS seems like a match made in heaven. Reason #1: Everyone wants to do eCommerce nowadays. Reason #2: Java+Java == Eternal love in the marriage of two Java-based software companies: KonaKart (eCommerce vendor) and dotCMS (open source Web CMS provider).

Open source Enterprise CMS and Document Management vendor Nuxeo (news, site) is extending the value of its Nuxeo Connect support and maintenance service with a new product named Nuxeo Studio.

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.

Apache Chemistry (we introduced you to some time ago) is progressing under the watchful eye of Enterprise CMS vendor Nuxeo (news, site) and other contributors. The latest news -- updated Nuxeo Chemistry bindings to allow for better support for CMIS.

Hoping to present at DrupalCon 2010? The call for presentations is now open. This year's tracks are:

• Welcome to Drupal (news, site)
• Design, Theme and Usability
• Providing Professional Drupal Services
• Configuration, Set-up & Administration
• Under the Hood
• Leveraging Drupal for Your Business

In order to submit a session proposal, you need to have already purchased your ticket to DrupalCon and log into the conference site. Session submissions must be turned in by February 15, 2010. From there:

• The public votes on sessions from February 16 through March 1
• Speakers are notified on March 5
• The final schedule is posted on March 15

The conference itself begins April 17 with the Core Developer Summit and ends on Thursday April 22 with the Code Sprint. The event is being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco -- a fine city to keep yourselves entertained before and after the festivities.

Drupal 7 (news, site), much anticipated, is now out in Alpha 1 release and the call for testers is upon us.

This is the first time that version 7 of the open source Web CMS is being offered to the entire Drupal community, and of course, the rest of the world.

Angela Byron (aka Webchick), Drupal 7 project co-maintainer, talked about three queues she wanted testers focused on prior to today's release including:

1. Looking for "seriously" critical bugs related to API breakages, the broken upgrade path or missing security updates, and any user-facing bugs that don't make D7 look all that fantastic. Look for details on her D7 alpha hit list.
2. Getting documentation on API changes up to date. Angie is hoping that developers make good on their #D7CX pledges so that the updates of modules from 6.x to 7.x isn't stalled.
3. Final reviews of the user interface text.

Of course as hard as the community may work, all these things have probably not been complete, but the Alpha 1 release has come out just the same. This release is being treated as a stable release, so no new changes will be made unless they are non-API-breaking bug fixes.

To make the release even more special, it comes on the 9th anniversary of Drupal. Says Dries Buytaert:

Exactly nine years ago, I released Drupal 1.0.0. When I shared my hobby project with the world, I expected no more than a dozen people to actually use it. It took a large community of people to make Drupal successful, but today, Drupal has hundreds of thousands of friends. Thank you to everyone who has been and is contributing to Drupal. Rock!

So happy birthday to Drupal. Now head over to the Drupal Project website and get your D7 Alpha 1 download, or just select form here:

• 7.0-alpha1 release: Download | Notes
• 7.x-dev snapshot: Download | Notes

Kaltura (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.