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What should be on council websites of the future?
Last month, SilverStripe spoke about what we consider to be the future trends and features of council (local government authority) websites. We also asked council staff what they wanted to add to their websites. You can watch our presentation and read council views below.
All of this took place at an annual conference of council web managers and developers. The same conference also featured a panel discussion on content management systems, and the new website we produced for the council of Gisborne won an award.
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Watch panel discussion the suitability of SilverStripe for councils
You can watch four New Zealand councils provide customer views about the CMS running their public-facing website. The 50-minute panel discussion was a popular session at the Council Web Symposium held in Wellington last month.
The same day at the conference, the SilverStripe-built Gisborne District Council website won an award for best redevelopment. We also presented a talk on the future of council websites which you can watch online.
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Learn about SilverStripe and our government work in Washington DC
Join us in Washington DC! From 7 to 9pm on Thursday, 16th July, we're presenting an interactive case study of the 2008 U.S. Democratic National Convention website.
Powered by SilverStripe, the website delivered content in both English and Spanish, had real-time videos of Barack Obama and other key speakers in HD quality, and received more than 2.6 billion hits over a 96 hour period.
English book available for US pre-order. Preview the cover!
Work on the English SilverStripe book is steadily progressing!
Pre-orders of the book have been possible through Amazon.uk since April. As of today you can pre-order the book in US dollars from Amazon.com, too.
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Two SilverStripe appearances at open source conference next month
We'll be at OSCON, the world's largest open source software conference, and we'd love to meet you there.
The conference is held in San Jose, south of San Francisco, from July 20 to 24 and attracts thousands of developers and others interested in open source. Come join one of our SilverStripe sessions!
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SilverStripe 2.3.2 stable released: Multi-language support is back, and even better than before!
We've issued a new stable release of SilverStripe today! It restores support for multiple-language websites and includes a small set of usability and performance improvements.
SilverStripe has supported multiple-language websites since 2007. The feature which provides this is called Translatable in the codebase, and it lets you create a page with variations in different languages. Translatable is intended for websites whose content exists in a number of languages, while the structure of the site is similar or even identical for all of those languages.
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SilverStripe interest fills New York event: listen to the talk!
SilverStripe spoke at a monthly web-developer event in May. Listen to 61 minutes explaining our software and company, and answering a huge number of questions from a very interested crowd:
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SilverStripe 2.3.2rc4 ready for download and testing
SilverStripe 2.3.2 release candidate 4 is out. It fixes a number of bugs and means we step closer to a stable 2.3.2 release.
This release focuses on improving multiple language support, as we have discussed earlier. We'd love for you download and test the release so that we can ensure our code is of a high quality!
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SilverStripe 2.3.2 release candidate 2 available for testing
SilverStripe v2.3.2 RC2 is now available! This provides the second update to the SilverStripe 2.3.2 beta which was released in early May.
We'd love your support: download, install, and test the code and raise bugs if you find any! Once we're satisfied that neither the community nor the core team can find any major bugs, the code will be deemed stable for general use.
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Choosing an open source CMS, confidently
There's finally a book available that educates people on how to appropriately choose an open source CMS.
Nirav Mehta's Choosing an Open Source CMS: Beginner's Guide reviews about a dozen open source CMS packages; read the table of the contents to see what they are. The table of contents also outlines how the book covers the topic of choosing the right software, be your project a website, blog, wiki, or something else.
What should be on council websites of the future?
Last month, SilverStripe spoke about what we consider to be the future trends and features of council (local government authority) websites. We also asked council staff what they wanted to add to their websites. You can watch our presentation and read council views below.
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