CMS Systems
Solutions for the same problem?
CMS Bash, Groningen
Wilco Jansen
July 2, 2009

Personal facts
Name: Wilco Jansen
Residence: Netherlands (Wijhe)
Occupation: Senior Program Manager
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Joomla involvement
Development Workgroup Member
Board Member Open Source Matters
Joomla Core Team member
(First ever) Development Coordinator
Google Summer of Code program manager
Creator of the Joomla! Bug Squad
Google Highly Open Participation Contest
Joomla! Evangelist on many sessions world wide
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Open Source Content Management Systems
solve all the same problem in different
ways...

1069 CMS solutions out there...

www.cmsmatrix.org

How to select your CMS?

Read a good book?

Or use common sense?
Read a good book?

Let us limit to the solutions at the CMS bash...

We start with Mission and Vision...

www.djangoproject.com

www.djangoproject.com

www.djangoproject.com
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadline
Django makes it easier to build better Web apps more quickly with less code

www.drupal.org
http://www.djangoproject.com/

www.drupal.org

www.drupal.org

www.drupal.org

www.drupal.org
To develop a leading edge open-source content management
system that implements the latest thinking and best practices
in community publishing, knowledge management, and
software design.

www.joomla.org

www.joomla.org

www.joomla.org
Our mission is to provide a flexible platform for digital
publishing and collaboration
In our vision, we see:
* People publishing and collaborating in their communities and around the world
* Software that is free, secure, and high-quality
* A community that is enjoyable and rewarding to participate in
* People around the world using their preferred languages
* A project that acts autonomously
* A project that is socially responsible
* A project dedicated to maintaining the trust of its users

www.plone.org

www.plone.org

www.plone.org
A powerful, flexible Content Management
solution that is easy to install, use and extend
Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain information using
only a web browser. Perfect for web sites or intranets, Plone offers
superior security without sacrificing extensibility or ease of use.

www.typo3.org

www.typo3.org

www.typo3.org
To be an excellent, state-of-the-art next generation CMS
enabling people to communicate with modern technology
for years to come.

www.wordpress.org

www.wordpress.org

www.wordpress.org
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with
a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

Next...let us look at technology used

Technology used (taken from CMS matrix)

Technology used (taken from CMS matrix)

The licences
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The licences

The licences

The licences
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10276903-16.html?tag=mncol;title

The licences

Companies backing the solutions

Companies backing the solutions

Does size matter?

Does size matter?

Communities
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Importance of communities

So what is the best toolkit for the job?

Maybe the bash can answer that?