Announcing the new CMSMS organization
August 25th, 2007 by Daniel WestergrenLots 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
- Announcements in the forum and on the blog
Team leaders:
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!
August 27th, 2007 at 5:00 am
I just checked the powertools that my provider is offering. It is a list of tools/scripts (cms/portal/faq) that is prepared by installatron.com. A number of the tools mentioned, are of fellow CMS solutions. Would it not be great from a marketing point of view that CMS Made Simple becomes a part of that list. On one side the name will be mentioned more often and on the other side, new prospects can just select to install it and test it (this was my entry to cms world and checked 3 before I found CMS Made Simple).
August 27th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Steve;
Nice point, installatron is where i came into the cms world. It took some research but finally discovered cmsms was the best suited solution for the majority of my sites.
August 27th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Steve, great point and I wonder what the process is to become a part of those types of processes on hosts.
I am excited about the direction of CMSMS, and when i get some more order in my business i’ll apply ot be part of the Usability and Appearance (mainly for appearance) team.
Samuel is awesome and I’m glad to see him part of the core team.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
wILL cmsms ever consider using the new zend framework?
August 31st, 2007 at 2:33 pm
How about, for marketing again (sorry fooks in the other departments), how about updating the specs that are shown when doing a comparison between CMS Made Simple with any other CMS system on the CMSMatrix.org site. It currently states that the version of CMS MS is 1.0.4. A big gap I would say.