Needless to say, I'm a bit frustrated. Take a look at this review...

Very clean and simple CMS. Editing stylesheets and templates is a bit awkward, but after some time creating your own stuff, one can get used to it. The quality of the user-submitted modules is abysmal. Many of them are fundamentally flawed and their PHP code is often plainly wrong. If you avoid 3rd party modules, CMS does the job very well.

This comes from our page on opensourcecms.com, which is pretty much the largest pusher of traffic to our site from the outside world. A lot of our new users find our name on the list and check us out. And this is pretty much the first thing they see now. The developer's forge is a great idea, but it almost seems like it's hindering as much as it's helping. It's not the first time I've heard this complaint, so we as a group need to try and figure out what we can do about it. Whether it requires a more strenuous testing/acceptance procedure (which we don't really have the manpower to do), or if we just only approve projects that we now will be done right... well, we just don't know. Any suggestions? This needs to be corrected or it will become a downfall of this project. And I refuse to let that happen.

The time for the developer's get-together is almost upon us. For those that didn't read before, the developer team is putting together a face-to-face meeting of the minds in Copenhagen, Denmark over the weekend of Sept. 8, 2007. Most of the plans are set, but we have one issue: money. Originally, we thought we would be able to cover expenses without looking to the community for funding. However, it's down to the wire for buying plane tickets and several people need some help... in the very near future. Given the trends of buying plane tickets, we have about 10 days or so before prices skyrocket. As it stands, we need roughly US$1000 before the 15th of August. That's 10 days from today. The sooner we can get it together, the better. Any money left over after buying tickets will go into a pot to help the group pay for any additional expenses they might have. Donating is easy. Click on the donation link on the left hand side of this page. All donations are handled through paypal. Remember, donations are not tax deductable. Everyone who donates will get their name put up on this page and also the main donations page... and I'll keep a running tally of how much was donated. If you'd rather be anonymous, just say so in the paypal donation comments. Also, advertising options or official get-together sponsorship is available if you're interested. For those of you interested in the event itself, we (at least me, I'm a photography nut) will be posting pictures on flickr each day and we will also post any details about discussions as we go. We're going to try and plan a schedule before hand, and will post that as soon as we possible. Help us make this a successful meeting and give the developer's morale a nice shot in the arm! Thanks!

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Sunday Benjamin Verkley - $10 Hakki Dogusan - $20 Jeroen Vos - $20 David Streever - $15 Gareth Jones - $20 Jelmer Schreuder - $10 Monday Millipedia - $100 Paul Richards - $30 Anonymous - $50 CJ Houghtaling - $25 Neil Southwood - $20 Edward Nowotny - $100 Mark Reed - $20 Sun Kim - $50 Mana Ties - $50 Tuesday Steve Alink - $20 Peter Gasston - $30 Steven Epstein - $20 Jan-Felix Schmakeit - $40 Image Works Studio - $200 Mccord Computer Solutions - $10 Wednesday Israel Cefrin - $15 John Scotcher - $40 Mark Reed - $65 Quality Interfaces - $50 Veli-Matti Saari - $30 René Helminsen - $50 Maine Webworks - $30 Michael Erb - $25 Thursday Dieter van Baarle - $20 Anders Rehnvall - $25 Friday Anonymous - $50 Sunday Reinhard Mohr - $10 Andrew Moore - $20 Patrick Honorez - $50 Torben Hoerup Nielsen - $15 Prism Mail Solutions - $33 Monday Andre Gellert - $5 Gunnar Grimsson - $50 Tuesday Finn Lovenkrands - $100 Martin Johnson - $20 Wednesday Martin Weber - $30 Sanjay Jain - $100 Grand Total: $1,693 Thanks to everyone who donated! The trip is definitely on (all tickets are bought) and the rest of the money will go towards making Copenhagen a little less expensive for everyone. Thanks again!

For the 2nd year in a row, Packt Publishing is running the Open Source CMS Awards. This year there are several categoires and more prize money to be won. Hopefully we can rally enough support this year to get a nomination in one of the few categories. This would be a huge win for publicity for our humble project. So, please, click the links below and nominate us if you feel we're worthy. http://www.packtpub.com/article/nominate-overall-open-source-cms-winner/system/CMS-Made-Simple http://www.packtpub.com/article/nominate-open-source-php-cms/system/CMS-Made-Simple Thanks!

Reposted from: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,13494.0.html by calguy We apologize for the (very severely) slipped release of 1.1, but summer, work, and our private lives have severely impacted our ability to work on CMS Made Simple and to get this release out. This is hopefully the last release before the 2.0 series of CMS Made Simple comes out. Many thanks go out to many people (Ted, ThomasM, SilMalarrion, Reneh, tsw, _SjG_, and others) for their help in making this a reliable release (hopefully) and in doing all of the work to get it done. This release attacks some major points - Efficiency - TinyMCE is now the Default Editor for new installs - Security - Numerous changes to attempt to reduce the chance of xss attacks and SQL injections - Upgrades - New versions of Smarty and adodb_lite - ** scriptaculous was not upgraded ** - Enhancements - Apply/Submit/Cancel buttons are now the standard for internal pages - A seperate syntax hilighter module can now be used for templates, stylesheets, and UDT's. - Ajaxy code for the apply button when editing css, templates, etc. so that the scrollbar doesn't move (this is a big plus). - News now supports multiple database templates and pagination There have been many many additional under-the-scene improvements, most of them minor, but some significant. Wwe recommend that you upgrade your CMS installations to 1.1 at your earliest convenience. I think you will find this release to be 'a breath of fresh air'. Not like CMS Made Simple isn't a breath of fresh air already, but, according to our standards....

CMS Made Simple is gladly joining in the gophp5.org mission. On 5 February 2008, many PHP projects, including us, will not be releasing any more versions that will be compatible with anything less that PHP 5.2.0. This is to help push ISPs into supporting php5 finally... which has been out for 3 years already. In actuality, we've already said that CMSMS 2.0 will only support php5, but this seals the deal on a version number (5.2.0) and also gives us leverage for this decision. CMSMS 2.0 will also be coming out before that date, but that just means we'll be a few months ahead of the curve. If you're having trouble and worrying about a host supporting future releases, then you should probably check out the list of hosts on this page and get your migration plans ready. Thanks to the folks at gophp5.org for giving us a reason to finally push php acceptance in forward and positive motion. It really is THAT much better that php 4.