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Timbow, we totally appreciate your thoughts. Just because you're not officially a "team member" of "developer" doesn't mean you don't have a say - that's what's so great about open source.
GetSimple CMS stands out because it works well, and it's the perfect solution for developers/designers to make their customers websites in, so the client will not have to call every 5 minutes and be like "hey, I want to change what a sentence says".
And the great thing is, you can take an existing HTML website and, using GetSimple's easy templating system, turn it into a fully functional but easy to use CMS website, in less than hour! Virtually no learning curve for the end users/clients that don't know what the heck a computer is, and perfect for the designers/developers!
The goal? to have more people using GetSimple CMS and to grow the community so that it's continuously improving and evolving. I would have posted the little roadmap I made that I think would have made sense, but nobody wanted to see it.
I'm usually the first one to say "I hate WordPress; I don't want GetSimple to turn into WordPress." But I, once again, think we need to be a little more open minded and add some things that GetSimple has been lacking for a while now.
We've got talented developers, a decent size user base to work with, and some good plugins, but it's hindered by the leaving of Chris because he's too busy with other things, and the fact that we're being slow to add things that should really have been a part of it, simply because "then it won't be simple enough anymore"
As in the 12 months goal? It is not to have $100000. It is to simply have a great CMS, and preferably a bigger community and user base.
Our major down fall right now is that we're big on not adding features to the core because they should be done as plugins so people can choose what we want, but we only have like 10 people that regularly make good plugins that actually address feature requests. A lot of plugins are crappy and/or outdated.
And we have very small variety of themes, etc. in Extend
GetSimple CMS stands out because it works well, and it's the perfect solution for developers/designers to make their customers websites in, so the client will not have to call every 5 minutes and be like "hey, I want to change what a sentence says".
And the great thing is, you can take an existing HTML website and, using GetSimple's easy templating system, turn it into a fully functional but easy to use CMS website, in less than hour! Virtually no learning curve for the end users/clients that don't know what the heck a computer is, and perfect for the designers/developers!
The goal? to have more people using GetSimple CMS and to grow the community so that it's continuously improving and evolving. I would have posted the little roadmap I made that I think would have made sense, but nobody wanted to see it.
I'm usually the first one to say "I hate WordPress; I don't want GetSimple to turn into WordPress." But I, once again, think we need to be a little more open minded and add some things that GetSimple has been lacking for a while now.
We've got talented developers, a decent size user base to work with, and some good plugins, but it's hindered by the leaving of Chris because he's too busy with other things, and the fact that we're being slow to add things that should really have been a part of it, simply because "then it won't be simple enough anymore"
As in the 12 months goal? It is not to have $100000. It is to simply have a great CMS, and preferably a bigger community and user base.
Our major down fall right now is that we're big on not adding features to the core because they should be done as plugins so people can choose what we want, but we only have like 10 people that regularly make good plugins that actually address feature requests. A lot of plugins are crappy and/or outdated.
And we have very small variety of themes, etc. in Extend
