I list exactly 30 different content management systems at my site under the "CMS Focus" banner here at CMSReport.com.  My list does not necessarily include the top CMS out there, but those CMS that I currently find of interest.  A few of the applications I currently list have dropped off my radar scope and no longer impress me as a CMS I want to spend my time taking about.  So I'm currently looking at replacing a few of the CMS I have listed with other applications.

If you had the power to add a CMS I currently don't have listed, which CMS would that be?

Now let's get real...I will consider your suggestion, but the CMS has to do impress me.  What is the criteria I use for selecting a CMS to place under the CMS Focus list?  First, the application has to add something I haven't seen in a CMS before.  I really have no interest in replacing a CMS with a CMS that doesn't do more than the ones I currently have listed.  Secondly, there has to be a good level of synergy in the development community and the user community supporting the CMS.  The community doesn't have to be open source, but it usually does make my job easier to find the more interesting CMS communities out there.

Now that you know my criteria, perhaps you have a CMS in mind that would be of interest to me?

What really keeps an open source project going?  I think it all starts when someone in the open source community asks the tough questions.  Take for instance this one, "Has XOOPS lost its appeal?".   The project will evolve depending on how the project responds to such challenging questions.  In this particular case, those closer to the open source project asked in a proactive response, "How do we give XOOPS appeal and user satisfaction?".

Following some innovative ideas from the Has xoops lost it's appeal thread, I have decided to open a new thread, with some extractions of ideas to work on. The suggestion is that xoops has lost its appeal in some ares concerning community support. I have tried to pull out the POSITIVE and proactive suggestions so that we can build on this, working up to some real action for improvements. If a user asks a question like this, I believe it is the responsibility of leadership to sit up and take notice. Here is my response, as a small contribution to answer criticisms with some proactive response.

I urge you to read the forum threads and decide for yourself whether XOOPS has lost its appeal or not.  For me, this is the first time in a long time that XOOPS has shown something that appeals to me most.  I call it open source synergy.  I predict good things for XOOPS in 2007.