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Open-Source Update The progress of Reason, an open-source content management system for higher ed

Open-Source Update The progress of Reason, an open-source content management system for higher ed. Matt Ryan Associate Director of Web Communications & Development Carleton College mryan@ carleton.edu. ?. ?. Photo courtesy of Library of Congress (Creative Commons by-sa).

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Open-Source Update The progress of Reason, an open-source content management system for higher ed

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  1. Open-Source Update The progress of Reason, an open-source content management system for higher ed Matt Ryan Associate Director of Web Communications & Development Carleton College mryan@ carleton.edu

  2. ? ? Photo courtesy of Library of Congress (Creative Commons by-sa)

  3. Drawing courtesy of Elton One (Creative Commons by-nc-nd)

  4. Photo courtesy of ndh (Creative Commons by-nc)

  5. Photo courtesy of Sifter (Creative Commons by-nc)

  6. Illustration by Maginel Wright Enright, 1914

  7. Photo courtesy of Roger Myer (Creative Commons by-nc-nd)

  8. Photo courtesy of Joe Shlabotnik (Creative Commons by)

  9. Photo courtesy of Gadget Girl (Creative Commons by-nc)

  10. Our development process • Build only what was needed at the time • Plan out to maintain future flexibility

  11. Photo courtesy of EJP Photo (Creative Commons by-nc-sa)

  12. Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1918

  13. Suffrage Parade, 1913. Courtesy Library of Congress, Bain Collection

  14. Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1918

  15. Growth • People • Events • Media • Forms • Research Guides • RSS & Podcasting • Publications • Lots more

  16. Demo Protesting at the White House against the ERA, 1977. Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress

  17. Photo courtesy of Soham Pablo (Creative Commons by)

  18. ? ? Photo courtesy of Soham Pablo (Creative Commons by)

  19. Our open-source vision • Build a community of schools using and working together on Reason as a shared project • Use our collective knowledge, talents, and needs to solve shared higher ed problems • Use a shared application core which can be readily extended to meet individual school needs

  20. What's new • Separated code & created clean distinction between core and custom code • Created a number of integration shims: directory, authentication, search, wysiwyg editors • Installation -- hugely simplified the installation process, reduced dependencies • Started building a community • Improved documentation

  21. What's new • Added a host of features, including… • Support for running on Windows servers • Site maintaner-defined access control • Modifiable administrative permissions scheme • PHP5 support • New extensible caching system • Publications/Blogs enhancements • MySQL 4.1 • iCalendar feeds • Customize footers • Image gallery module sweetening • Several new modules: RSS display, Quotes, Classifieds, more

  22. Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1918

  23. What's Next? • In the short term • Whipping the documentation into shape • Getting our 4.0 release out • Interface improvements • Forms enhancements • In the longer term • Growing the community around the project • Streamlined php5 API for simplified development • New directions, defined by the community

  24. You’re invited

  25. What sets Reason apart? • Consistency • A project rather than just a product. • Peer Community • Free Open Source Software • Mature • Multi-template, Multi-site

  26. Questions?

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