Get your fork out, Mambo did it again with MiaCMS.
Posted by: Matt king in technology, politics, news, cool services May 23, 2008
Those of you who have been around a while should rememeber Mambo, the CMS that our beloved Joomla is based off of. A few years back there was a bunch of bickering and discussion about how Mambo was to evolve and thus Joomla was spawned. Well, another fork of Mambo has popped out again, this time taking a bunch more developers and coders. This group has now created MiaCMS.
From the official MiaCMS website
The MiaCMS Story
MiaCMS is a fork of the Mambo CMS. Why a fork? We felt that the policies, processes, and priorities of the official Mambo Foundation were having a negative impact on the code and the community. Innovation, creativity, and team spirit have all but been eliminated. Thus the fork. Much of the same crew that built you Mambo 4.5.3+ through 4.6.3 are here now continuing development on the same award winning software base that everyone has come to know and love. Let us make clear we never gave up on the product or the community, but rather just the Foundation which controlled it.
Features
- Simple Installation
- Graphical Content Editors (automatic code generation)
- RSS Content Syndication
- Powerful/Extensible 3rd Party Extension System
- Flexible Site Theming Capabilities
- Free & Open Source (GPL v2 License)
- Site Search
- REST enabled
- User Management
- Multilingual
- Stable, Secure, and Mature
So far the changes are small, but it is only the first release, and the same thing happened with Joomla. As MiaCMS grows it will develop it's own identity and followers. I think it is absolutely something to keep your eye on.
Read more at the MiaCMS Web site
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huh?
written by fuqaha , May 26, 2008 wow.. and thats i think the 4th fork from mambo. What makes miaCMS different from other mambo forks, except the aesthetic changes?
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written by Matt king , May 27, 2008 The backend is a bit different. fancier menus in the admin, little bits here and there.Being a first release it is more for getting the word out there and showing the base they are going to build upon. I'm sure it will be more feature rich as it comes out of infancy. I recall Joomla being just like that when it first came out.
