Campsite 2.4 Released

Announce: Release of Campsite 2.4
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Campsite 2.4 has been released.  It is available for download here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=66936

Campsite is an open-source multi-lingual content management system (CMS)
for news websites.

Campsite's easily localizable user interface was built with the end user
(journalist/editor/publisher) in mind and it can be configured to suit
different profiles of end users – to each according his or her own
technological prowess.

Campsite follows the print-newspaper publishing paradigm, so it
structures sites by default as Publications -> Issues -> Sections ->
Articles.  Campsite works best for medium-to-large size online news
publications, but it is capable of handling nimbler sites too. Some of
its main features are highly customizable user interface, total design
freedom for web designers, automatic creation of archives, copy flow,
and built-in subscription support.

For more information about Campsite, visit the homepage:
http://www.campware.org/en/camp/campsite_news/

Version 2.4 is a major feature release.  Here are the important changes
since version 2.3:
    * Ability to attach files to articles (multimedia, PDF, etc.)
    * A completely redesigned article input (Article Edit) screen
      (images, topics, attachments, and publishing events are now shown
       and can be easily added or removed from the screen)
    * Article List has been redesigned to show all relevant information
      at a glance
    * Ability to perform actions on multiple articles at once (akin to
      Gmail).
    * Improved subscriber management (subscriber list can now be sorted
      by full name, account name and creation date).
    * API for third party plugins
    * Simplified navigation
    * Ability to restart the parser from the admin interface.
    * The template engine starts automatically and it can be restarted
      from the user interface.

The full changelog can be found here:
http://code.campware.org/projects/campsite/file/tags/CAMP...

Out of the box, Campsite includes a number of features especially
relevant to journalists and media organizations:

   1. Designing the site however they prefer
   2. Article translation features and support for multiple-language
      sites
   3. Support for subscriptions
   4. Editing articles in an advanced WYSIWYG interface
   5. Support for RSS feeds and podcasting
   6. Required copy-flow process to ensure quality of content
   7. Schedule articles for future release
   8. Easy-to-understand publishing model based around
      Publication->Issue->Section->Article paradigm
   9. Incorporate images and files into articles
  10. Categorizing articles with topics
  11. Exercise fine-grained access control for different types of staff
      users, for example: journalist, editor, designer, etc.
  12. Build third-party plugins using the PHP object-oriented API

A technical feature list for Campsite can be found here:
http://code.campware.org/projects/campsite/wiki/FeatureList

A list of sites using Campsite can be found here:
http://www.campware.org/en/camp/campsite_news/609/

Campsite is brought to you by Campware, an initiative of the Media
Development Loan Fund, Inc.  MDLF is a New York-registered 501(c)3
public charity providing support to independent news media in emerging
democracies.  Campware is dedicated to develop, distribute, support and
implement useful tools for independent news media in emerging
democracies. All Campware software is released as open source and under
the GNU General Public License.