Open Source Cms News & Articles

Welcome to the March 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.

Yesterday Alfresco (news, site) announced a new partnership with Jive Software that will bring more life to its concept of social content management. Our question is, what exactly is social content management. We asked. We were told. Read on.

eZ's (news, site) Enterprise Edition today gets a major upgrade with new features in version 4.5 and a new Partner Portal to offer a range of assets to users.

As MediaCore (news, site) nears full release, the system has had a hefty refresh and added new features to round out the offering.

When we interviewed Brian Alvey in late 2009 on his new web content management system, he told us it was being developed for big publishers. And that it was, Crowd Fusion is the web content management system behind The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's iPad exclusive newspaper.

Web content integrator Jahia (news, site) launches a beta site to demonstrate the value and interactiveness of HTML 5.

Grand projects often start from humble beginnings. When the folks at Lullabot (news, site) decided to offer their training through streaming video, they had no idea of the can of worms they'd open, or where it would take them.

One common theme here at DrupalCon 2011 is the concept of Drupal (news, site) as a platform. In particular, there's a lot to learn from the groups and companies behind various Drupal distributions.

It started at Dries Buytaert's DrupalCon 2011 keynote. In this case, the "shot heard 'round the world" was a pair of words that he seemed to know would cause mixed reactions from the crowd: App store. This wasn't a product announcement, but so far throughout the conference, the term won't seem to die.

Believe it or not, project management is about more than making spreadsheets and nagging. There's an art to the process, and being familiar with the techniques and concerns can help you, whether you're a one-person shop or a large company. Here's what a panel of experts had to say about starting projects smartly at DrupalCon 2011.

At DrupalCon 2011, Bryan House, Acquia's (news, site) Vice President of Marketing, gave a talk on competing against large proprietary vendors for contracts with large enterprise companies. While he of course focuses on Drupal (news, site), much of what he says applies to other open source projects that are mature enough to make the jump to these clients.

If your organization has people with the time, talent, and desire to work together but your budget is short a few zeroes, an open-source alternative may be what you need to fill the collaboration gaps in your enterprise.

Want to try Drupal (news, site) but don't want to deal with setting up servers, dealing with dependencies, and all of the stuff under the hood? Now you can, and you can even take your experiment into production with the first (non-beta) release of Drupal Gardens (news, site).

Packt Publishing (news, site) announced that it has donated over US$ 300,000 to open source projects. The technical book publisher has provided financial support to open source projects since 2004, long before open source gained its current favored position in the enterprise.