I have been struggling to decide what I think about the Wikipedia/WikiScanner episode that played out last week. Collaboration Loop had some thoughts of their own in the article, The Death of Wikipedia?
Is there anyone else disappointed that Linux.com and NewsForge.com now mirror each other in content? In the past I've called this the CMS déjà vu phenomenon. I'm not sure what to think about it. No wait, I do know what I think about the two sites basically merging into one...I don't like it. I really do miss the diversity in stories the two separate sites once offered.
Last week, Plone 3.0 was released. Plone is the content management system that runs on the Python-based Zope application server. The install of Plone is known to be very easy with Plone, Python, and Zope already packaged together in the installer.
Highlights to the new features/improvements in Plone 3.0 that the Plone team would like to stress via their announcement are listed below. I provided links to further details on those features I thought needed a better explanation or were just too exciting to leave alone.
eWeek has a slideshow of Microsoft's top 25 open source projects.
With a bid underway to obtain the blessing of the Open Source Initiative for two of its software licenses, Microsoft is working to burnish its open source credentials. Here are the 25 most active projects, as of August 21, on Microsoft's CodePlex open source project hosting Web site, along with the licenses under which the projects have been released.
Let me ask you this, what would likely happen if Microsoft opened up Windows Vista? Do you think open source developers would pitch in to improve Vista or would they gut the code and start building a new Windows operating system from scratch?
It is my non-bias opinion that Jared Ritchey may be one of this century's finest writers. Oh let's just choose a random post as an example and see what he has to say regarding content management systems.
I love well rounded and informative information. Bryan Ruby, the author, publisher, webmaster for CMSReport.com has a SPANK of good information and resources regarding many of todays top CMS solutions on the web.
My thanks to Jared for the nice compliment. Most of Ritchey's other posts at his Wordpress site focus on Web design. The content of those posts make a visit to his site well worth the time.
As I mentioned last month, Packt Publishing is currently taking nominations for their Open Source Content Management Systems Award. Nominations are scheduled to close on August 31, 2007. With the deadline less then two weeks away, there is no better time then the present to head over to their site and promote your favorite open source CMS. Nominations are being accepted for each of the below categories (click to nominate):
"Tech is so illogical and arbitrary, it needs folks like you and me to explain it to everybody else."
--Stephen Manes, "Full Disclosure: If You're Not a Geek, You'd Better Know One", PC World Magazine, September 2007
Mike Gifford, Open Concept, commented here at CMS Report that his company had just posted a report they did for a client comparing three open source content management systems. His company needed to recommend to their client whether Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal would be a good replacement for their current CMS, Back-End (BE).