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FREE AND OPEN CMS BY CAMPWARE: CAMPSITE

CAMPWARE is dedicated to develop, distribute, support and implement useful tools for independent media initiatives. Our aim is to release all software as Open Source and under the GNU General Public License. CAMPWARE was set up to make efficient use of a series of developments in the independent media sector. More and more initiatives are applying or developing network based software solutions to overcome problems of content distribution or censorship.

Releasing all software under the GNU General Public License, we encourage further development on the existing software. In fact, CAMPWARE hopes to receive changes and developments made to the original release versions. We intend to make such developments available again on this site to everyone else. Any effort made to bring software further will of course be fully credited on this site and in the source code. In many cases the real benefit of licensed commercial software is the support (if there is any). Many software solutions in the independent media sector are not lacking reliability and functionality, but support and warranty. CAMPWARE intends to help establishing self-support networks for such applications. This way support will be available from the group of programmers, users and webmasters who have developed and implemented the original software - an continue working on it.

CAMPSITE is the first major release of CAMPWARE. It is a content management system with multi-lingual Unicode support, designed for medium- to large-sized online publications. Issues, back archives, copy flow, and subscription management are fully implemented features. At the core of the management system sits CAMPFIRE, a Java program supporting Unicode fonts, which allows contributors and editors to control online-layout features and publish in their native alphabets. No HTML knowledge is necessary to format text or add links and images.

support of managing article translations in different languages
advanced editorial interface for remote article editing
cut and paste formatting from other editors into CAMPFIRE, the online
Java Editor
near WYSIWYG feel for HTML editing online with Java Editor CAMPFIRE
its own customizable search-engine
built-in subscription system
management of dictionaries

runs on a Linux server
needs an Apache web to be running
for data storage it needs a MySQL database.

tested on Netscape under Unix, Macintosh and Windows, Internet Explorer under Windows
has a client Editor interface implemented as a Java Applet (browser-compatibility reason)