Content Geeks: Last week we touched on some initial topics concerning community management, especially how it may be organized internally. But what about the other side of the coin? Ideally, a community has broad support, but garnering it involves looking beyond the sole interest of the business. Or does it? With that in mind, I asked our panel of professionals how community can help, but also sometimes be in opposition to the company that fosters it.
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OpenCms Days 2012 - Conference and Expo
OpenCms Days 2012 will take place from Monday, September 24 to Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Cologne, Germany.
OpenCms 8 – Experiences, Possibilities, Potentials
This 4th annual gathering of OpenCms users will focus on success stories and projects based on Op
enCms 8. Experts from around the world will share their experiences with this latest OpenCms release. Alkacon will also unveil Version 8.5 of OpenCms which will contain several enhancements.
OpenCms Days 2012 conference will feature 2 parallel tracks with Showcase and Workshop sessions.
The previous OpenCms Days have shown that this event is the best occasion to meet and mingle with OpenCms experts such as core developers, experienced consultants, independent CMS analysts, executive decision makers and other OpenCms users. Especially the conference’s expo provides a great chance for sponsors to establish new business contacts and to get in touch with the OpenCms community.
OpenCms Days 2012 is targeted towards an international audience. The language spoken at the event is English, and all presentations will be held in English language.
Open Source Meets Google Summer of Code 2012
Every year, I find it an honor when I'm asked by open source projects to announce that they have entered been accepted as mentoring organizations into Google's Summer of Code program. I'm a big advocate of college education and I also understand the importance of a summer job to keeping those college bills under control. Open source projects and the Google Summer of Code provides this opportinuty for upcoming software developers. The Summer of Code is a "global program sponsored by Google that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects".
There are several goals to the Google Summer of Code program:
- Create and release open source code for the benefit of all
- Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development
- Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers
- Provide students the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits (think "flip bits, not burgers")
- Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette)
The Summer of Code program provides college age students with alternatives to the typical summer employment at the local grocery store or fast food chain with an opportinity to work the code and on projects that inspires them the most. Google will provide a stipend of $5500 USD per accepted student developer, of which $5000 USD goes to the student and $500 USD goes to the mentoring organization.
Five Pillars Of A Great CMS
As an online marketer, I used to work in different environments, but since joining Foliovision, I spend virtually all my time on our clients’ content management systems. Some days ago, I logged into a completely different CMS after a long time. It didn’t look bad at first glance, but spending just a few minutes working with this interface was enough to see the striking difference between this CMS and our own; this one was really medieval! I am a marketer, certainly not a hard-boiled developer, and for the first time, I’ve summarized my thoughts about what makes a good CMS. These are the pillars of success but also the risks involved.
I. Low initial costs
This means open source, choosing from the three respective candidates (here we explain why we chose Wordpress out of these three). There is a crowdsource counting dozens of millions of people who develop, test, rate, and upgrade several open source CMSs. You can’t beat this crowd with your team. Spending weeks developing your own or buying some obscure CMS from another company means you’ve wasted money form the beginning.
RISK: Some open source projects serve for years with the same or even increasing quality. Unfortunately, some start to slide backward as the time passes, and you have to leave the sinking ship at the right moment.
II. For all clients and purposes
Of course, you have to add “within the range of what CMS should provide.” There is nothing worse than getting your first BIG client and then realizing that the wooden legs of your CMS can’t accomodate your vision. Our example: we need to serve both a local Toronto realtor and a major Canadian insurance broker with different traffic, database requirements, and marketing strategies — not an easy task if you’re not prepared for it.
New Liferay Portal 6.1 EE Empowers Enterprise Business Users
Powerful content and document management combined with new power-user features extend enterprise capabilities
LOS ANGELES — (February 22, 2012) — Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today the general availability of Liferay Portal 6.1 Enterprise Edition (EE) for download. The latest version of Liferay’s portal product is its richest yet, offering key usability enhancements that empower business and non-technical users to easily and effectively publish, organize, and access data and content, and quickly create applications to facilitate business processes online.
The new Liferay Portal 6.1 EE features extensive updates to existing web content and document management systems plus new capabilities that are designed to provide more power to end users. Extensive user interface updates will make document management more productive and intuitive, with desktop and mobile access, live previews, and integration to external enterprise document repositories. Liferay 6.1 EE also simplifies the development and maintenance of rich websites, with sophisticated page templates and multiple site and page version editing.
Jahia Launches Jahia 6.6
Jahia 6.6 raises User Experience building to a new standard and further enhances the strengths of the platform
Washington DC, USA - Jahia, provider of Java-based open source next generation CMS solutions, announced today the new version of its flagship CMS product in version 6.6 with two major areas of improvements: the platform management and Jahia Studio, its visual integration tool to build highly customized and personalized User Experiences.
Hippo CMS in the Cloud, a step-by-step tutorial
Hippo CMS is a Java open source web content management system that enables a true, open and context-aware content strategy. It is targeted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like, web sites and intranets. This one is also very easy to deploy to Jelastic!
Installatron Announces the Availability of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Installatron, a leader in web application automation, now includes Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware in its Installatron family of automation products. With Installatron, users can easily install Tiki in one click to any web hosting account in the world, regardless of control panel or web host.
Liferay Announces Rapid Community Growth in 2011
Liferay Sync, Liferay Portal 6.1 EE set to launch with strong open-source community momentum
LOS ANGELES — (January 24, 2012) — Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today the expansion of its community to 56,000 members in 2011, a nearly 40 percent increase over the previous year. The participation of the Liferay community continues to strengthen the portal provider's offerings, including the new Liferay Sync and Liferay Portal 6.1 Enterprise Edition, both planned for release later this quarter.
More Scalable Than Ever: Joomla 2.5 Released
As we discussed a few weeks ago, the release of Joomla 2.5 on this day was expected. Surpringly, knowing the release date seemed to make the wait longer. Without a doubt, Joomla.org will be a busy place the next few days. Joomla's marketing people tell me that Joomla! has been downloaded more than 28 million times and powers more than 1.6 million. Those are pretty significant numbers and this new version of Joomla! is expected to help continue the popularity of this open source CMS.
As I discussed in my previous articles, Joomla! for the first time includes multi-database functionality, beginning with Microsoft SQL. If you read the article, you also know that Joomla 2.5 also includes more than a dozen new features. You'll can also check out those features by going to joom.la/25features. But before you hop over to another site, you can find some additional details about Joomla 2.5 right now in this exclusive press release that we've acquired from sources secretly embedded in the Joomla! community.
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