Planet IKS

Plone Foundation happily got five slots for Google Summer of Code 2011 projects. Two of the committed proposals refered to software related to the BlueDynamics Alliance.
Dexterity type modelling and generation
First the ArchGenXML successor, a complete rewrite called AGX, was proposed to get extended to generate Dexterity content-types. Proposing student for this project is Pranshu Saxena, third year student of Computer
Science at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India. Mentor is Robert Niederreiter from Austria, main contributor of the new AGX stack. Co-mentor Jens...

Salzburg Research presents its current annual intellectual capital report.
Our success in 2010 is composed of the steady staff growth, the increase of research and development projects in many market-pilot systems and the enhancement of corporate reputation and visibility.
Besides the economic and scientific results (intellectual capital), our annual report shows the highlights from our four research departments, the competence center “Salzburg NewMediaLab” (SNML) and the two competence fields e-Tourism and e-Health.
Annual Report (pdf, German only)

Our Annual Report 2010 has a special additive: Using so-called QR codes, you can learn...

The IKS Project and Liip are organizing a PHP Content Repository Workshop in Zurich, Switzerland on May 8-9 2011. If you're working on PHP-based content management technologies, this event should be a very useful one to join or at least follow.
What is a content repository?

Content Repository is a programming interface for connecting with various persistent data stores. On the Java side, the JCR specification has gained quite a bit of traction, allowing for easy...

The Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation and Adobe Foundation Launch Youth Academy in New York