http://www.orchardproject.net/



From Microsoft. Fully open-source, for delivering ASP.NET applications and reusable components. First thing out the door will be a CMS application.

Basically this is Microsoft's answer to Wordpress, Joomla, MoveableType, Drupal, et al. Really cool stuff, nice to see Microsoft actually delivering things like this to the community (and embracing the community to work on it!). I'm waiting to see how this pans out as compared to the existing players and the existing problems of architectural and plugin creep in most OSS CMS platforms.

12/9/2009 5:37:43 PM

I was hoping to be impressed by their web designer...His bio says he was developing websites in 1995. After looking at his portfolio it would appear that he is still developing websites in 1995

the project site, however, is decent although I'm not crazy about the color combinations. Granted thats not what your own use of the project would look like...but thats one reason that I instantly started looking more into word press was because their site was visually appealing.

[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 5:44 PM. Reason : more]

12/9/2009 5:43:17 PM

^He's on my team I can confidently say that his portfolio has very little correlation to his current work. The one crummy part of being a designer a Microsoft is that we don't get to show much publicly unless it ships in a public product.

He's a pretty damn good visual designer, and he's got a pretty good Ux team backing him up

12/9/2009 8:10:10 PM