Hey everybody,<br><br>Our meeting this Thursday will have Jim Muir
speaking / demoing Silverstripe, an open source
Content Management System (CMS) built atop a powerful object oriented MVC Model-View-Controller programming framework, Sapphire. Free, open source, and PHP5.<br>
<a href="http://www.silverstripe.com/" target="_blank">http://www.silverstripe.com/</a><br>
<br>When: Thursday Feb 28 2008 @ 6PM<br>Where: Scott Labs (SO) room 103<br>Pizza: most definitely<br><br>Note: Meeting is in Scott Labs, not Dreese Labs. And the time is 6pm, not 7pm. I changed this up to be a little easier on the 8-5'ers who have to over-stretch to make it to a 7pm meeting. Scott Labs is the shiny, recently built, pretty building with a sky
bridge and is near Science & Engineering Library. I'm picking this location because both SilverStripe and ScottLabs both have a really excellent framework / infrastructure. <br><p>From their website...<br>The framework lets you rapidly code up the "objects" your project uses
(e.g. staff members, products, customers, along with their
relationships). You then add a few lines of code and find SilverSight
has automatically added tables and columns to the database, let you use
them in your website templates, and has added new "page types" and
fields into the CMS for the content editor to utilize. As we said; stay
up late for fun, not for your boss.</p><p>We've
rethought how content editors, developers, and designers should build
and manage websites. We've arrived at a unique combination that
empowers all three to get their jobs done more quickly and with more
flexibility.</p>=<br>SilverStrike
was a project of the Google Summer of Code (SoC) and the highly open
participation content, and is currently under active development (just
hit 50,000 update records).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>So, come out and hopefully learn something cool, and tell a friend as we would love more than anything to let more people know about open source.<br></div><br>
-- <br>==<br>Peter Dietz<br><br>Computer & Information Science -- The Ohio State University