In honor of the 2011 Tour de France which started last saturday and will last until July 24th, we’ve decided to run in parallel a three week long “Tour de Nuxeo” to present the many faces of Nuxeo: Why use it? How to get started? How to leverage its basic and advanced functionalities? Etc.
Here’s the list of all the “stages” for this year:
We’ve done yesterday a second release candidate for Nuxeo EP and DM.
You can download the packages (zip, windows installer, generic installer) here:
A month ago, we became a member of the OW2 consortium, an international organization and ecosystem primarily devoted to producing open source middleware, integration and cloud computing software, most of them based on the Java platform.
Established as ObjectWeb in 2002, OW2 a major open source technological and business ecosystem, with 59 strategic and corporate members over 3 continents (mostly in France, USA - via its merger with the Open Solutions Alliance in 2009 -, Germany and China) and more than 1500 individual members.
Besides the IKS and Scribo projects on semantic technologies which we have already covered on these blogs, Nuxeo is also a partner of several other collaborative R&D projects.
Two of these projects were presented during the IRILL days last October.
In a somewhat subtle self-promoting exercise thechangelog.com has an interesting post called “Top ten reasons why I won’t use your open source project” and while it somewhat applies to smaller, younger projects, we thought (as our friends of the Glassfish project recently did) we’d benchmark the Nuxeo project on those reasons.
We have made available earlier this week version 2.0 of Nuxeo Studio, the configuration and customization environment for content applications based on the open source Nuxeo EP platform.
Here is the announcement
Nuxeo Studio 2.0 brings new important features, such as content views (which were introduced in Nuxeo EP 5.4 last november) configuration, widget configuration, user groups management, content transformation, as well as usability improvement thanks to the feedback of our users.
Last Thursday I spoke at the JavaScript for Enterprise Applications (JSE2011) conference (that I also co-organised with my friend Jean-Paul Smets from Nexedi/ERP5/TioLive).
I wanted to talk about the soon to be released mobile ECM clients we are building for the Nuxeo platform, which I’m going to write a longer blog post soon.
We’ve been busy during the holidays updating the different Nuxeo community websites:
The forum (as I already announced) has moved to a new forum engine that should be more robust that the previous one:
The documentation site has a new home page with, we hope, a clearer roadmap to navigate through the documentation:
We’ve also have written a new ”beginner’s page” (aka: “everything you need to know about Nuxeo in 5 minutes”):
And a ”business FAQ” that should be helpful when responding to a RFP:
We’re still busy updating other parts of the documentation.
There is now a ”home page” that aggregates info from the community sites (forum, blogs and documentation), and also provides the key links for newcomers.
You can also subscribe to the RSS feed that provides updates similar to the “wall” provided by nuxeo.org (with a bit of additional filtering):
I hope you will find these enhancements useful. Of course there might be some issues since everything is still new, so feel free to report (in the comments below, or in the mailing list / the forum) any problems or suggest enhancements.