(Sketch for) OpenACS Home
OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. OpenACS is the foundation for many products and websites, including the .LRN e-learning platform. OpenACS is open source and is available under the GNU General Public License.
Why use OpenACS?
OpenACS is unique in the breadth of services it offers developers and administrators. Millions of dollars and decades of developer time have gone into the maturation of OpenACS.
You can read the technical reasons to use OpenACS.
How do I install OpenACS?
The installation documentation contains all the necessary steps to install OpenACS on a large variety of systems. There is also a Windows Installer and other packaged installations openacs-system-install. Also Check the installation requirements before installing. The current stable release is OpenACS 5.9.0 (cvs aliases).
How do I work with OpenACS?
You can start by reading the documentation, specifically tips on customizing, the developer's tutorial, and
the FAQs. There is a OpenACS Wiki and a list of packages that extend OpenACS.
For professional help, contact one of the OpenACS companies.
OpenACS Community
One of the strengths of the OpenACS project is the community surrounding it:
- Discussion forums
- Blog
- IRC at
irc://irc.freenode.net/#openacs
- Chatroom logs and today's log
- File Storage
- How to contribute
- Test servers
- CVS Browsers options: Browser, https://github.com/openacs
- Technical Decisions on the direction of OpenACS, made by the community-elected OpenACS Core Team.
News
OpenACS 5.10.1 final released
3038 files changed, 1291141 insertions(+), 354533 deletions(-)These changes were contributed by 8 committers
- Antonio Pisano
- Gustaf Neumann
- Günter Ernst
- Héctor Romojaro
- Michael Aram
- Raúl Rodríguez
- Sebastian Scheder
- Thomas Renner
and additional 8 patch/bugfix providers
- Felix Mödritscher
- Frank Bergmann
- Franz Penz
- Josue Cardona
- Keith Paskett
- Markus Moser
- Marty Israelsen
- Monika Andergassen
Many thanks to everybody who made this release possible!
[1] https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/download/
[2] https://openacs.org/doc/release-notes
[3] https://openacs.org/changelogs/ChangeLog-5.10.1
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