I posted a little while ago about
APLAWS, the
Accessible and Personalised Local Authority Web Sites project in the UK.
I saw a demo of this at RH/aD offices in London a couple of weeks ago. It does look very slick. A lot of work has gone into the CMS and user interface.
Acording to the products page this will be released sometime later this month.
Although they have said that it will be open sourced, they have made no indication what kind of licence it will be available under. I doubt that it will be too restrictive though, given the UK govt footed the bill via the pathfinder scheme.
APLAWS was designed primarily for use by local authorities, but the data model seems advanced enough to allow use in any CMS/KMS situation. Details are still a bit sketchy, but watch this space.
When I was at their offices, the guys at aD also said that the next stage of the project would be to port it to postgreSQL sometime later this year.
