OpenCms Days 2012 will take place from Monday, September 24 to Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Cologne, Germany.
Experts from around the world will share their experiences with this latest OpenCms release. The first sessions of the conference program are already fixed and give an overview on the multiplicity of OpenCms 8. Nevertheless we are still looking for session proposals, bringing up project-reports and experiences around OpenCms 8.
OpenCms 8.0.4 is an update that improves browser compatibility and fixes several issues that persisted in the 8.0.3 release.
New and improved features in OpenCMS 8.0.4 includes:
OpenCms Days 2012 will take place from Monday, September 24 to Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Cologne, Germany.
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.
Inline content editing with Alkacon's new Acacia editor based on IKS semantic web technology
Did you know how easy it is to edit contents directly on the webpage? The upcoming version 8.5 of OpenCms will feature inline content-editing directly on the web page as well as next level form based editing.
This is provided by Alkacon's new Acacia editor based on IKS semantic web technology. With the comprehensive and flexible support for meta data contents can be optimally used and website visitors will find what they are looking for.
Watch the webcast and try the online demo to learn more about inline content-editing with the upcoming OpenCms 8.5.
OpenCms from Alkacon Software is a professional content management system that helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain websites fast and efficiently.
Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) is an EU founded project about the future of the semantic web in content management systems. Alkacon Software is an industrial partner in the IKS project.
Last weekend, digital agency water&stone, released their 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report. I consider this report one of the few non-bias and detailed surveys that come across my desk each year. The report isn't perfect, but the report does help give a good snapshot on the state of who's who in the world of open source content management systems.
You are most definitely going to want to take a look at the details in the report. The findings in this year’s report were based on a survey of more than 2,500 CMS users and additional research into a wide variety of measures of market share and brand strength. I'm still combing through the survey and taking note of the interesting individual nuggets of information that can be found in the results of the survey.
Not surprisingly, the report confirms the ranking position of open source's three most dominate Web content management systems in the market. The press release itself summarizes the results this way:
PHP-based systems WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal continue to dominate the web content management space. But, while the Big Three remain unchanged from last year, the Report concludes that WordPress retains a clear lead in the face of decreasing competition from Joomla!.
The decreasing competition from Joomla! can be seen most noticeably in the decrease of installations reported by the survey respondents in 2011 compared to 2010. The survey does note that this dramatic drop is likely due to the Joomla! community aggressively promoting the survey last year. This year, the promotion efforts were not coordinated and less influential. I only point this out because this is an example of where the report isn't "perfect" via inconsistencies in the yearly survey sample introducing a margin of error in the trend comparisons.
OpenCms 8.0.3 is now ready and available for download and was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the OpenCms developer community. OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements.
With version 2.0 of the OAMP GeoMap Module, which is available now for download from alkacon.com, you can add a full-featured and highly customizable Google map widget to your OpenCms 8 installation without knowledge of HTML. Add a GeoMap to any page in OpenCms 8 just by Drag & Drop. With the ADE Editor all changes are made directly on your website.
The new OpenCms 8 training courses of Alkacon Software provide the best possible introduction to OpenCms 8 development, right from the creators of OpenCms.
OpenCms 8 training courses are available at different skill levels and offer an introduction to the new OpenCms 8 concepts including Advanced Direct Edit, usage and creation of Templates, formatters and containers.
All Alkacon OpenCms courses have been developed specially for OpenCms and contain a variety of slides, lessons and exercises.
The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are a commercial extension for the popular open source web content management system OpenCms that offers support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance.
The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions consist of several OCEE modules and are available in tailor-made packages to meet functional and budgetary requirements. The OCEE Cluster package contains all available OCEE modules.
