Lots of amazing things are going on with CMS Made Simple right now! There has been much great discussion about the future of CMS Made Simple in the blog comments, in the forums and on IRC. And in two weeks time the Development Team meets for the first time in person. To be expected in the coming weeks and months are a new forge, a modules tracking and reviewing system, improvement of the themes site, improvement and integration of the website, better marketing, documentation and hopefully by the end of the year, the whole new and exciting CMS Made Simple v. 2.0. First to be announced is the new work organization. Eight teams have been formed, each with responsibility for one important part of CMS Made Simple. We gladly accept more members in any of these teams, for those wishing to contribute to making this the best CMS out there! Please contact the team leader if you are interested in contributing! Ted Kulp (Ted/wishy) and Robert Campbell (calguy1000) are the project administrators and have the last say. The main team is made up of the team leaders in each of the following eight teams:

Core and Module Development

Responsibilities:

• Develop the core and modules
• Writing technical documentation and developer guidelines (together with the Documentation Team)

Team leaders:

• Ted Kulp (Ted/wishy)
• Robert Campbell (calguy1000)
• Samuel Goldstein (_SjG_)
• Morten Poulsen (silmarillion)

Usability and Appearance

Responsibilites:

• Default pages, templates and stylesheets.
• Feedback to the Core and Development Team about the appearance and structure of the backend administration.
• Install script and the installation experience.
• Usability and accessibility

Team leader:

• Tatu Wikman (tsw)

Current members:

• Gunnar Grímsson (ooooooooooo/virtual)
• Paul Noone (iNSiPiD)

Website

Responsibilities:

• Consistent look and feel across *.cmsmadesimple.org
• Information infrastructure
• Keeping the site up-to-date
• Implement new features
• Approve news and projects in the current forge (later for the Quality & Assurance Team)
• Themes and module downloads

Team leaders:

• Tatu Wikman (tsw)

Current members:

• René Helminsen (reneh)
• Gunnar Grimsson (oooooooooo)
• Paul Noone (iNSiPiD)
• Ted Kulp (Ted)
• Daniel Westergren (westis)

Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Test the core and modules, both unit testing (code) and testing new features.
• Review and approve module releases

Team leader:

• Thomas Mayfield (tgmayfield)

Current members:

• John Botte (sportman/Qualityinterfaces)
• Kevin Grandon (SavageKabbage)
• René Helminsen (reneh)
• Darrin Roenfanz (the-golem)
• Ville-Pekka Vainio (vpv)

Support

Responsibilities:

• Give support to users
• Moderate and administrate forums
• Working with the Documentation Team for tips and troubleshooting

Team leader:

• Andreas Just (Cyberman)

Current members:

• Mark Reed (mark, maksbud)
• Ronny Krijt (RonnyK)
• Pierre M. (Pierre M., pierremirc)
• Alberto Benati (alby)

Documentation

Responsibilities:

• User documentation
• Developer documentation, together with the Core and Module Development Team

Team leader:

• Gunnar Grímsson (ooooooooooo/virtual)

Current members:

• Daniel Westergren (westis)

Translation

Responsibilities:

• Translations of the core, modules and documentation
• Administration of the Translation Center for core and modules
• Feedback to core and module developers about found errors in translation files
• Approving new translators, languages and modules for translation

Team leader:

• René Helminsen (reneh)

Current members:

• The project leader for each language.

Marketing and Information

Responsibilities:

• External marketing
• Announcements in the forum and on the blog
• Information on the website, together with the Website Team
• Internal communication between the different teams

Team leaders:

• Keith Lauchlan (Utter)
• Daniel Westergren (westis)

Current members:

• Ted Kulp (Ted)
• Kevin Grandon (SavageKabbage)

Again, feel free to contact team leaders if you would like to contribute. We need more people for most of the teams!