Hi All,

As part of setting up a development framework for a university for the better part of last year, I've also been developing a cms. The powers that be are supportive of the cms component going open source. That means we have a bunch of code and concepts to contribute. Also, we can provide a solid foundation to the project. That is, we would be committed to the development of an open source cms based on Zend Framework. We already have allocated resources (such as a designated development server) a community of interested developers and an even larger community of tests - departmental webmasters.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that you should all develop the cms that we have started. What I am saying is that we have code, concepts and resources to contribute to the cms project and (if desired) can offer support in managing the project. The advantage in doing this is that the project would not orbit around an individual/s. It would consequently be more attractive to developers who are cautious of wasting valuable time contributing to a deadend project.

I would like to build a relationship with the Zend company and develop an official Zend Framework CMS (e.g. ZFCMS - hang on just have to google that … ha! Zeev Suraski from Zend Technologies Ltd has registered zfcms.com. The ground is fertile!). It would be nice to hand project management over to them. Until then, the more core ZF developers we can get on board the better chance we have of developing a cms that will work WITH ZF and not against it and the better chance we have of Zend Technologies running with it.

It sounlds like a lot of us have developed cms's. Can anyone who is willing set up a dummy site? Post the link here with instructions and a description of key features.

Cheers,
Jess