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Privacy agency taps open source CMS for new website

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), which oversees freedom of information and privacy for the federal government, is seeking to migrate to a new website based on the open source Joomla CMS.

By Rohan Pearce | 26 March, 2012 11:30

Tags: government, joomla, open source

The road to a successful open source project: Learning lessons from Drupal

By almost any measure, Drupal, an open source content management system/Web platform, should be a poster child for open source success. The PHP-based CMS, the first version of which was released by Dries Buytaert in 2001, powers the Web presence of a number of major organisations, including, since 2009, Whitehouse.gov.

By Rohan Pearce | 10 January, 2012 17:02

Tags: Dries Buytaert, drupal, open source

Dries' vision for Drupal 8

In January last year the developers of popular open source content management system Drupal celebrated the release of version 7. Drupal 7 included significant architectural changes as well as usability enhancements.

By Rohan Pearce | 04 January, 2012 16:45

Tags: Dries Buytaert, drupal, open source

Sydney to host Joomla conference

The Sydney Joomla User Group will host a two-day conference on the open source content management system.

By TechWorld staff | 18 October, 2011 16:24

Tags: joomla, Joomla!, open source

Cotton On does e-commerce with Aussie open source apps

Fashion retailer Cotton On has launched into global e-commerce with a rapid two-month project which leverages local open source apps developed with the Django framework, with point of sale and supply chain integration thrown in for good measure.

By Rodney Gedda | 30 June, 2011 16:15

Tags: Cotton On, e-commerce, open source, pos, retail, supply chain management

National Library updates Trove search engine

The National Library of Australia has announced version 4.0 of its Trove search engine which now crawls millions of journal articles.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 May, 2011 15:20

Tags: National Library of Australia, search engines, Trove

Monash Uni moves e-learning to Moodle

Monash University in Melbourne has selected the open source Moodle e-learning platform for its next-generation virtual learning environment (VLE) which will integrate with third-party applications.

By Rodney Gedda | 10 May, 2011 15:53

Tags: education, E-learning, monash, Monash University, Moodle

Sydney school marries Moodle with Live@edu

Sydney grammar school Redlands has opted for the Cloud-based Live@edu e-mail system over an on-premise system and integrated the open source Moodle learning management system with it in the process.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 April, 2011 12:08

Tags: cloud computing, education, E-learning, live@edu, Microsoft, Microsoft Live@edu, Moodle, open source, schools

Apache opens content management space

In an effort to make content management systems work more harmoniously with one another, the Apache Software Foundation has promoted its Apache Chemistry interoperability toolkit to a top level project.

By Joab Jackson | 24 February, 2011 03:48

Tags: Apache Software Foundation, applications, content management, open source, software

Drupal's Dries Buytaert makes call for developers

A passion for PHP, as well as a strong developer community, has been vital to Drupal’s success, founder Dries Buytaert said.

By Lisa Banks | 07 February, 2011 10:26

Tags: careers, Dries Buytaert, drupal

Joomla reorganized, modernized

The volunteers behind the Joomla content management system will release version 1.6 of the open-source software today, which features considerable improvements in access control and page layout, among other enhancements.

By Joab Jackson | 11 January, 2011 03:04

Tags: applications, content management, joomla, open source, Open Source Matters, software

Drupal conf heads to Brisbane in 2011 amid 7 release

The international development community of the open source Drupal content management system will gather in Brisbane in January, including the project’s founder Dries Buytaert.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 December, 2010 11:37

Tags: cms, content management system (CMS), Dries Buytaert, drupal, open source

Drupal Gardens getting ready to bloom

Drupal Gardens, the planned cloud version of the open source Drupal content management system, went into a public beta stage Thursday, thus making it widely available for tryouts , said Drupal founder Dries Buytaert.

By Paul Krill | 23 July, 2010 08:18

Tags: applications, cloud computing, cms, document management, drupal, internet, open source, software

WordPress 3.0 blogging software released

A new version of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress has been posted, the cadre of volunteers behind the software announced on Thursday.

By Joab Jackson | 18 June, 2010 05:36

Tags: blogging, cms, open source, Wordpress

Uni college ups grade with open source CMS project

Whitley College in Melbourne has implemented an open source content management system in a few months and puts the success of the project down to a trusted relationship with its service provider.

By Rodney Gedda | 18 May, 2010 12:56

Tags: cms, drupal, open source, project management, university of melbourne

IETF turns introspective with new wiki

The Internet Engineering Task Force has set up a wiki to document which of its standards were successful and why.

By Joab Jackson | 05 February, 2010 09:47

Tags: IETF, standards, wikis

Google will release EtherPad as open source

EtherPad, the real-time hosted word processor Google acquired on Friday, will live on as open-source software instead of being discontinued in the coming months.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 08 December, 2009 06:49

Tags: EtherPad, Google, open source

Crunching data on the cheap

Data-warehousing software systems are expensive, but many enterprises have nonetheless been willing to dig deep, betting that analytics will provide new insights into their business and a competitive advantage.

By Chris Kanaracus | 26 November, 2009 07:03

Tags: analytics, business intelligence, databases, data warehousing

Botnet authors crash WordPress sites with buggy code

Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.

By Robert McMillan | 05 November, 2009 08:58

Tags: blogging, botnets, exploits and vulnerabilities, gumblar, php, security, Wordpress

ALRC going for open source CMS website

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) is trekking down the open source path, putting out a tender for a content management system (CMS) to integrate with a planned new website.

By Trevor Clarke | 02 October, 2009 14:48

Tags: alrc, cms, drupal

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