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What is a content management system (cms)?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In computing, a content management system (CMS) is a system used to organize and facilitate collaborative creation of documents and other content. A CMS is frequently a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles. The market for content management systems remains fragmented, with many open-source and proprietary solutions available.

There is a saying in German: “You can always spot the shoemaker’s son because he’s wearing the worst shoes.” thanks to Lenya wiki contributor Gregor Rothfus for this.

My May 2004 foray into Content Management Systems has learned about these 2 great products:

Joomla

Joomla is a split of the core Mambo Developers from Mambo; occurring Fall 2005.

Joomla! is a Content Management System (CMS) created by the same award-winning team that brought the Mambo CMS to its current state of stardom.

Joomla has a really solid looking development team as well.
http://www.joomla.org/

An important aspect of understanding Joomla is that it is not a fork in the software. Joomla has all the core developers working in the same structure as they did before. They are only using a different name. As confusing as it sounds, Mambo is effectively the fork from Mambo.

from http://www.devshed.com/c/a/BrainDump/Joomla-is-the-New-Mambo/6/

A great CMS feature comparison database is at The CMS Matrix.
And OpenSourceCMS has many CMS systems installed and ready to try out.

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# g Says:
February 1st, 2006 at 2:55 pm

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/25/067256

How To Choose An Open Source CMS
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 25, @08:56AM
from the focus-on-the-problem dept.
Software
An anonymous reader writes “Content management specialist Seth Gottlieb has written an easy to understand how-to on selecting an open source CMS. Gottlieb is also responsible for the whitepaper ‘Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions’ which summarizes 15 open source projects and distinguishes between open source CMS and proprietary software selection.”

http://zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/How_to_choose_an_open_source_CMS/0,39023769,39234675,00.htm

Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions
by Seth Gottlieb, Content Management Practice Lead
23 Jan 2006
http://www.optaros.com/wp/wp_5_cms_report.shtml
# Gare Says:
April 6th, 2006 at 12:52 pm

http://www.joomla.org/

Boston LinuxWorld WebCam
Tuesday, 04 April 2006

Core Team Member Andy Miller wanted everyone to see the buzz at the Boston LinuxWorld, so he’s set up a webcam for us to check things out.

Andy, Mitch Pirtle and Louis Landry are attending the Joomla! stand at the show. They guys have been inundated with visitors who want to know more about Joomla!

The guys have been giving presentations to users of all skill levels — beginners to experts. On Monday night, they presented at the Boston PHP User Group. The presentation included a Skype with the Joomla! Lead Developer Johan Janssens for a quick question and answer session — where there was considerable interest in the forthcoming Joomla! 1.5 beta release.

Update : Read Mitch’s blog post about ‘Day Zero’ here and see Mitch rubbing shoulders with Miguel de Icaza of GNOME here.

Comment by Gare — April 6, 2006 #
dude, its Rothfuss, not Rufus, and i am not the “owner”, just the last person who changed that page.

Comment by Gregor J. Rothfuss — April 22, 2006 #
Mr. Rothfuss,

My apologies. Entry corrected. Thanks for stopping by! How is Lenya doing these days?

Comment by info — April 22, 2006 #
Wired.com adopts Lenya

A Note on Wired News’ New Look

By Evan Hansen | Also by this reporter
12:00 PM Dec, 21, 2005 EST

The redesign you see here is just the most visible part of a wide-ranging overhaul of Wired News. As of today, we’ve switched over to a new open-source publishing tool, based on Apache Lenya, built by our engineers over the past few months.

This is the first in a series of changes that we hope will improve your experience. New features are in the pipeline and will begin showing up soon.

At first glance, you may wonder what’s happened to some of your favorite features on the old site. In fact, we’ve kept most everything — it’s just in new places.

Most obviously, we’ve removed the left-hand column that once housed Quote Marks, links to topic areas and our stock-quote tool.

Topic areas are now found in the navigation bar that appears just below the Wired News logo at the top of the page. Topics appear as keywords in the horizontal black bar that connects to nav bar when you click on the Technology, Culture, Politics and News Wires tabs.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69793-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

Comment by info — April 22, 2006 #