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What I Mean to Say: A Practitioner Perspective on AI, Semantics, and Content Evolution

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This year's Google Summer of Code participants have been accepted and students are being encouraged to apply at the GSOC website.
On the Content management / Wiki front, accepted projects for this year include: Drupal, Dokuwiki, MoinMoin, Moodle, Plone, Typo3, WordPress and XWiki.
For those of you who may be unaware of the Google Summer of Code. Here's how it's described on their website:
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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We have worked with several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 4,500 students and more than more than 4,000 mentors &amp; co-mentors from over 85 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.
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Congratulations to all accepted organizations. Now it is time for the students to submit their proposals to the accepted mentoring organizations via the Google Summer of Code <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/home/google/gsoc2011" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">program website</a> from today through <a href="http://goo.gl/6tANe" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Friday, April 8th 19:00 UTC</a>. For the past 10 days students have had the opportunity to review the Ideas pages for this year’s 175 <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2011" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">accepted projects</a> and to research which projects they would like to contribute to for this year’s Google Summer of Code.

Google Summer of Code 2011

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The .NET 4 based Composite C1 CMS project – which became available as Free Open Source six months ago – released its first major update based on the “going open” feedback and experiences. This release addresses practical issues like having trouble setting up the system behind corporate proxies to delivering requested features like support for SQL Server and IE9/Chrome and also capture some of the innovation generated via the community like ASP.NET Master Page and Windows Azure support.
Here are the most noteworthy improvements in the new release:
<ul>
<li>Move your site from XML files to SQL Server – a migration tool literally execute the process in a few minutes and thanks to our data API's your code very seldom need any tweaking.</li>
<li>Chrome, IE7-9 and Firefox 3.6-4 support – we now support all the major modern browsers and the speed they provide is excellent.</li>
<li>Move your site to Windows Azure – a migration tool literally execute the process in a few minutes and thanks to our data and file API's your code very seldom need any tweaking.</li>
<li>Get 30 days free trials on premium packages – install and setup directly from the C1 Console and evaluate premium features for 30 days. Try before you buy, no strings attached.</li>
<li>ASP.NET Master Page support via contrib project – if you prefer the ASP.NET Web Forms approach to templates you have this option.</li>
<li>Build in page performance profiling – pinpoint what feature is making your page slow simply by adding ?c1mode=perf to the page URL.</li>
</ul>
A more comprehensive list and more details are available on CodePlex: <a href="http://compositec1.codeplex.com/discussions/251627" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://compositec1.codeplex.com/discussions/251627</a>
Download Composite C1 2.1 at <a href="http://compositec1.codeplex.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://compositec1.codeplex.com/</a> or read how you can upgrade your existing site to Composite C1 2.1: <a href="http://compositec1.codeplex.com/discussions/249573" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://compositec1.codeplex.com/discussions/249573</a>
Composite C1 2.1 will be available via the Windows Web App Gallery (Web Platform Installer and WebMatrix) within a few weeks.

Composite C1 2.1 Released - What's New?

The days of mass marketing and thinking about customer engagement are gone. Today, executing a successful customer engagement strategy is crucial in building a lasting relationship with your visitors and increasing customer lifetime value.
In this series of webinars different important topics that online marketers face every day, will be discussed. For example, how to fully exploit the potential of social media within targeted marketing campaigns, a channel that is used by only 78% of the F500 CMO's. We'll also discuss, the importance of obtaining actionable insights on your anonymous visitors and how their needs help form your customer engagement strategy. Furthermore, creating cross channel interactions and context independent communications are also on the agenda. And of course, all topics will be complemented with different customer use case scenarios.
more info: <a href="http://www.gxsoftware.com/en/company/events.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.gxsoftware.com/en/company/events.htm</a>

Series of webinars on Online Customer Engagement

A new release of Textpattern (<a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/tag/textpattern">news</a>) is available. This version has a focus primarily on security and introduces a number of new changes to the way passwords are handled as well as general security fixes.
Some excerpts from the release announcement:
<ul>
<li>If you are running an Apache web server, rename the <code>.htaccess-dist</code> file in the <code>/files</code> directory to <code>.htaccess</code> to prohibit direct URL access to your files.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Previously, people with privileges set to ‘None’ could log in and just not see anything — Restricted area — for every tab. Now they are not even permitted entry.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>We have relied on MySQL’s <code>password</code> function for a long time now. MySQL themselves do not recommend this and, moving forward to TXP 5, our goal is to open up the avenue for using other databases, so to rely on MySQL is counter to this philosophy. We have therefore taken the step of implementing phpass from this point forward.This has the implication that passwords are now case-sensitive.</li>
</ul>
This release also mops up some bits and pieces that snuck into 4.3.0. Namely:
<ul>
<li>a few places that still used deprecated attributes, mostly in the tag builder</li>
<li>some Textile security fixes</li>
<li>a bug in <code>&lt;txp:variable /&gt;</code> when dealing with empty values</li>
<li>search engines shouldn’t index ‘Nice try’ messages anymore</li>
<li>messy mode context and <code>get_pref()</code> bugs squashed</li>
</ul>
jQuery has also been upgraded to 1.5.1.
For the full announcement, or to download, visit: <a href="http://textpattern.com">http://textpattern.com</a>

Textpattern CMS 4.4.0 released: focus on security

GetSimple CMS 3.0 was released this weekend and brings with it a number of new features such as
<ul>
<li>Multiple subfolder support within Files Management</li>
<li>CKEditor upgrade</li>
<li>Filebrowser &amp; internal links within CKEditor</li>
<li>Plugins can be enabled/disabled.</li>
<li>Plugin multi-language support</li>
<li>Multi-user login capabilities</li>
<li>CSS3 tweaks</li>
<li>Admin panel theming</li>
</ul>
To learn more or download, visit <a href="http://get-simple.info">http://get-simple.info</a>

GetSimple CMS 3.0 released

Liferay, Inc., provider of the market’s fastest growing open source portal and collaboration software, recently announced a new Community Leadership Program, designed to give its already active open source community of over 35,000 members additional input into product directions and community affairs. The company has identified a roster of 12 community members of various backgrounds from around the world.
“Our community has been active since 2000 and is one of the most dedicated and vibrant in the open source world,” said James Falkner, Liferay’s Community Manager who spearheaded the program. “This program identifies existing leaders, fosters growth of new leaders, and gives them the opportunity to participate in product development and thought leadership.”
The leadership team consists of a small yet diverse group of developers from a wide spectrum of professional backgrounds, ranging from users and partners to hobbyists and software architects. Many have been contributing to the Liferay platform for several years and boast deep knowledge of the technology, making them capable mentors for newer community members.
“I have been a big fan of Liferay technology for a long time and appreciate how the company continues to keep its community open and inviting for everyone,” said Bendiabdallah Yousri, a developer at SQLI Company and one of Liferay’s newest Community Leaders. “This openness is a big part of what keeps me excited about Liferay—the opportunity to participate makes me want to help evolve the technology.”
The dozen community leaders will be able to participate in product roadmap decisions. They will also have a new Community Verifier status in Liferay’s issue tracking system that allows them to lead other community members in issue reporting, tracking, and resolution. Additional features will be added to this program in the future, which will further enable the growing Liferay open community, open source team.
For more information about Liferay, please visit <a href="http://www.liferay.com">www.liferay.com</a>.

Liferay Recruits Leaders from the Open Source Community

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Over the last week Joomla (see our <a href="/tag/joomla/">joomla review</a>), the enormously popular open source CMS, was downloaded for the 22 millionth time.
22 million. That's an incredible number to achieve, but that's not the only impressive number they've been able to boast about.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/bizzthemes_com-demo-nail-care-1-596x1024_ue0mgt.png" alt="Screenshot taken from Joomlacode.org as of 3/24/2011 9:48AM MST" />
Here are some others:
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<li>The number of extensions (essentially applications for Joomla) has grown nearly 20% in a little over 4 months.</li>
<li>2 months after the launch of Joomla 1.6, the new CMS has already been downloaded almost 1 million times</li>
<li>Joomla.org reached 7.5 million visitors in February, representing a 25% growth in Web traffic over a 4 month period</li>
</ul>
Impressive stats indeed. Joomla currently powers about 2.7 % of all websites on the net and has seen huge growth since the release of 1.6.
What are you experiences with Joomla? Do you consider it the #1 choice for content management? We'd love to hear your experience and thoughts in the comments below.

Joomla showing heavy growth in 2011

EntropySoft, a specialist of enterprise connectivity and content integration, is releasing the version 5 of its Content Hub. Content Hub connects all ECM systems and manages easily the most advanced document transfers. It enables synchronization of a selection of documents between different ECM systems. The ECM systems may be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Corporations of all sizes can now manage on their own their document transfers. They can safely share documents in cloud repositories and exchange easily documents with partners and customers.
“Content Hub is EntropySoft’s answer to information fragmentation, a universal problem all companies are confronted with. More and more ECM systems are being deployed, increasing information fragmentation and making information access difficult. Content Hub is delivering a single point of access, therefore simplifying and accelerating information access” said Nicolas Maquaire, EntropySoft CEO. ”Content Hub is also enabling simple content transfer between repositories. In a matter of minutes, it is even possible to synchronize parts of distinct ECM systems. With synchronization, document sharing in real-time is facilitated by having the right document at the right place. Companies can offer their knowledge silos to a larger audience or easily share documents with partners and customers”.
The new version of Content Hub further improves the user experience. The completely redesigned user interface facilitates the way users connect the repositories and improves document transfer monitoring.
EntropySoft added for example a repository discovery feature. This allows Content Hub to automatically connect to all repositories on a server or server farm. This feature is currently available for Microsoft SharePoint, Lotus Quicker, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and IBM P8. The document transfer monitoring is also improved. Users can now follow metrics in real-time. Out-of-the-box document synchronization and document migration are available. In a few clicks, an end-user can activate synchronization of two folders from distinct applications.
Content Hub is also available as a VMware virtual machine that can be very quickly connected to the different applications. In little time, an administrator can start migrating and sharing content between repositories deployed on-premises, at a partner location or in the cloud.
The Content Hub virtual machine is available on a fixed monthly subscription basis that allows you to start immediately improving document life-cycle. Content Hub is available for large organizations in perpetual license for installation in their corporate environment.
Content Hub accelerates and simplifies information access while managing the most advanced documents transfers.
About EntropySoft
EntropySoft is a specialist of enterprise connectivity and document integration. EntropySoft’s mission is to connect applications to information.
EntropySoft technology is used by software vendors and large companies to simplify integration of their products with Enterprise Content Management solutions and cloud repositories. Application fields are numerous: Enterprise Search, BPM, e-discovery, Records Management, Collaboration, Data Loss Prevention, etc…
The following leading global organizations chose EntropySoft products: Alfresco, EMC Documentum SourceOne, Endeca, IDS Scheer and Symantec.
For more information, visit <a href="http://www.entropysoft.net">www.entropysoft.net</a>

EntropySoft announces a new version of Content Hub to connect ECM systems together and manage document transfers

A new version of Pligg CMS is available for download. Combining security fixes with a couple of new features, it is highly recommended that all users upgrade to this current release.
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We have also added a new anti-spam module titled “Human Check”. Its job is to make life harder on spambots by using an array of honeypot fields and randomized field names. The module will operate on both comment and story submissions.Another new feature added to Pligg CMS is live story previews. You can now simplify the submission process to a single page and users can see an ajax preview of their story displayed as they fill in the submission fields. Check it out at <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://pligg.com/demo/</a>
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Read more: <a href="http://pligg.com/blog/1342/pligg-cms-1-1-4-released/">Pligg CMS 1.1.4 Released</a>

Pligg Content Management System 1.1.4 available

Sourcefabric announced the release of Newscoop 3.5.2 on March 15th 2011. Formerly known as Campsite, Newscoop takes Sourcefabric’s decade-long experience of making tools for news organisations and builds an open content management system for professional journalists.
Newscoop 3.5.2 addresses security and stability issues with over 60 bug fixes, including improvements to the dashboard (your customisable workspace just got faster), the article edit screen (cleaner, stabler WYSIWYG editing, previewing and image handling) and the blogs, interviews and polls plugins (plus a new plugin enabling reCAPTCHA in comments). There are a few changes behind the scenes too which deal with tightening security so upgrade is strongly recommended.
Newscoop comes packaged with templates too, including The Journalist, a brand-new template that builds on a classic WordPress design and is aimed at journalists who have outgrown their blog. Clean and simple, it’s the perfect antidote to overworked commercial blogging platforms.
For more visit <a href="http://newscoop.sourcefabric.org">http://newscoop.sourcefabric.org</a>

Newscoop 3.5.2 builds new template for journalism

The complete conference program for OpenCms Days 2011 is now available at the conference website. The program features 16 sessions with numerous high-profile speakers from all over the world. OpenCms Days 2011 will be the largest event for the OpenCms community this year.
OpenCms Days 2011 conference will feature 2 parallel tracks with Showcase and Workshop sessions:
<ul>
<li> Showcase track sessions will present a variety of OpenCms show cases and best practices from OpenCms projects all over the world. Showcase session focus on successful OpenCms projects and deliver a clear practical value to the audience</li>
<li>Workshop sessions for developers provide in-depth, hands-on presentations and workshops about the new technical features in OpenCms 8, presented by experts from Alkacon Software. The conference will provide a unique opportunity to learn about the many improvements of OpenCms 8 directly from the developers.</li>
</ul>
Each session will be 60 minutes long. A typical presentation session will be 45 minutes, followed by a 15 minutes discussion.
At the OpenCms Days 2011 conference expo, OpenCms solution providers will exhibit their OpenCms business solutions and enhancements.
OpenCms Days 2011 will take place from Monday, May 09 to Tuesday, May 10 in Cologne, Germany at the KOMED Convention Center.
Interested OpenCms users and developers can register tickets online at the conference website.
Regular conference registration price is 200,- Euro
Official website of the OpenCms Days 2011: <a href="http://www.opencms-days.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.opencms-days.org</a>
OpenCms is a complete and powerful open source web content management system that provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications.

OpenCms Days 2011 - Complete conference program available

Pentaho Corporation, the pioneer in agile business intelligence (BI), today announced the worldwide general availability (GA) of Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition 3.8. Pentaho is widely recognized as providing the only fully integrated commercial open source BI suite covering the full spectrum of BI needs including ETL, reporting, analysis (OLAP), dashboards and data mining. This release focuses on enabling business users to design rich, interactive BI solutions that seamlessly integrate all forms of information delivery.
With this release, Pentaho further delivers on the Pentaho Agile BI promise to reinvent the way BI is designed and deployed. With Pentaho, BI solutions are quicker to build, easier to adapt and deliver faster time to value. The new features in Pentaho BI Suite 3.8 move even closer to eliminating the gap between commercial open source and proprietary BI by offering the majority of the functionality provided by proprietary BI mega-vendors at a fraction of the cost.
The new functionality in Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition 3.8 includes: Guided analysis — designers for reports, OLAP analysis, and dashboards now provide simple ways for end users to define links from one document to another, thus creating guided navigation paths to additional detail or related information.
Interactive dashboards with zero coding — building upon the guided analysis enhancements, Dashboard Designer allows designers to use content links to dynamically drive the filtering of other widgets displayed within the same dashboard.
Rich library of design tools — designers can now choose from a library of filter control types including buttons, radio groups, calendar controls and more for adding interactivity to their dashboards.
Data-less design — this new query mode allows users to design the layout of an Analyzer report before querying the underlying database. This can help reduce database traffic and accelerate analytic report design when analyzing large amounts of data.
Data caching — Pentaho Reporting now includes an intelligent in-memory caching layer that dramatically improves performance when working with large, parameterized or paginated reports.
Deeper integration with Hadoop for Big Data — Pentaho Data Integration adds new-dedicated MapReduce steps to simplify the design of transformations as mappers, reducers, or combiners, making it even easier to use as a visual interface for orchestration of Hadoop jobs.
“We are listening to our customers,” said Ian Fyfe, Chief Technology Evangelist for Pentaho. “Pentaho BI Suite 3.8 includes a host of high value, customer requested features that significantly reduce the technical barriers preventing end users from creating rich, interactive Business Intelligence solutions. We encourage companies to see for themselves by downloading a free, 30-Day evaluation of Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition.”
About Pentaho Corporation
Pentaho is reinventing business intelligence by introducing an agile approach that makes it faster, simpler and more cost effective to create reports, dashboards and analytics. For a free evaluation download Pentaho BI at <a href="http://www.pentaho.com/download" target="_blank">www.pentaho.com/download</a>.

Pentaho BI Suite 3.8 Puts More Power in the Hands of End Users

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Moodle, the open source content management system for learning, has two new releases available.
In addition to a number of bug fixes and small improvements, nine <a href="http://moodle.org/security">security vulnerabilities</a> (7 major, 1 minor, 1 potential problem) in 2.0.1 and three security vulnerabilities (all major) in 1.9.10 have been discovered and fixed.
The releases themselves are available from the <a href="http://download.moodle.org/">Moodle download</a> page or CVS/Git.

Moodle 2.0.2 and Moodle 1.9.11 are now available

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