On Monday, May 11th we're holding a Meetup event at Indy Hall with Sigurd Magnusson, one of the co-founders of SilverStripe. If you are Web Producer, Designer, or Developer interested in Open Source CMS solutions, this event is a great oppourtunity to get engaged with the SilverStripe project. Sigurd will give a presentation about SilverStipe, including a sneak preview of some new features, and then we'll open up discussion to the community for questions and feedback.

SilverStripe is a user friendly and Open Source CMS that has an objected oriented (PHP5) MVC architecture. For those of you new to CMS development, its installation and set-up is similar to Wordpress, however it has some interesting points of difference:

For Developers: SilverStripe is built on Sapphire, an object-oriented PHP5 web framework designed to let you focus on your data and business logic.

For Designers: The templating engine is simple and clean, allowing for easy implementation of custom-designed sites. Template files are separated from the code so you can focus on what you love - design! The package is extremely approachable for someone with basic CSS/MySQL/PHP knowledge.

For Editors/Administrators: The CMS Administrative interface is clean and intuitive making it usable for Content Editors right out-of-the-box. Silverstripe gives editors complete control over their content, including a slick point-and-click form builder, allowing for quick and easy implementation of customized forms on your website. Other features include blog functionality, customized sidebar content on a per-page basis, and total control over URL structure, page titles, and metatdata on a per-page basis, along with simple asset management.

Check out the demo here: http://demo.silverstr...