Campsite 2.5 announced

Announce: Release of Campsite 2.5 "Eli"
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Campsite 2.5.0 "Eli" 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 2.5 is a major feature release.  Here are the important changes
since version 2.4:
    * Contributors can now file articles without needing to learn the
      site's publication/issue/section hierarchy.
    * Articles can now be set up to include dropdown fields containing a
      list of topics.
    * Topics can now be translated and the Topics screen has undergone a
      serious usability redesign.
    * Articles can now be moved across sections (previously we had the
      ability to copy but not move).
    * The Home page has a new layout to accommodate more detailed
      information and an increasing number of views of the workflow. It
      now displays publication/issue/section for all articles.
    * The subscription feature has been further refined to allow for
      subscriptions by language (e.g. access to the Sports section can
      be controlled or billed for separately for English and Spanish
      readers).
    * The template language now features a statement that automatically
      extracts the first paragraph of a story.
    * A Swedish localization of the admin interface has been added.
    * More permissions have been added for further fine-grained control
      of the interface. You can now specify whether the staff member has
      the ability to move articles, translate articles, attach images to
      articles, attach topics to articles, and change system
      preferences.

In addition there were many smaller changes made for ease-of-use and
over 40 bug fixes.

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. Total graphic design freedom
   2. Host multi-language publications; for example if you have both a
      French and English version of your newspaper or magazine.
   3. Subscription management
   4. Edit articles in an online WYSIWYG editor, similar to using MSWord
   5. Copy-flow/work-flow process to ensure quality of content
   6. Schedule articles for release in the future
   7. Easy-to-understand publishing model based around
      Publication->Issue->Section->Article paradigm
   8. Incorporate images and files into articles
   9. Categorize articles with topics
  10. Exercise fine-grained access control for different types of staff
      users, for example, you may have different rights for a
      journalist, editor, or designer, etc.
  11. Build third-party plugins using the PHP object-oriented API
  12. Support for RSS feeds and podcasting

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.