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Orchard

Orchard 1.4 Dashboard
Initial release	January 2011 (2011-01)
Stable release	1.6.1 / April 30, 2013 (2013-04-30)[1]
Development status	Active
Written in	ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC
Operating system	Windows
Type	Content management framework, Content management system, Community and Blog software
License	New BSD License
Website	orchardproject.net

Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused content management system written in ASP.NET platform using the ASP.NET MVC framework. Its vision is to create shared components for building ASP.NET applications and extensions, and specific applications that leverage these components to meet the needs of end-users, scripters, and developers.

Orchard is delivered as part of the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery under the OuterCurve Foundation. It is licensed under a New BSD license, which is approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

As per Orchard's codeplex^[2] page,^[3] the intended output of the Orchard project is three-fold:

• Individual .NET-based applications that appeal to end-users, scripters, and developers
• A set of re-usable components that makes it easy to build such applications
• A vibrant community to help define these applications and extensions

Project Status [edit]

Orchard is currently available as a V1 release. The project includes an extensibility model for both modules and themes, a dynamic content type system, ease of customization, localization and more.

Although most of the primary developers work for Microsoft, it is not an officially supported Microsoft product, and instead falls upon the auspices of the OuterCurve Foundation.

The project is mainly managed by the Orchard Steering Committee and Contributors who were proposed and elected by the community. The Steering Committee:

• Bertrand Le Roy (ex-Microsoft)
• Sebastien Ros (Microsoft)
• Sipke Schoorstra
• Piotr Szmyd
• Nicholas Mayne
• Ylan Kunstler

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Orchard Themes and Modules Gallery
• Orchard: Microsoft's open-source CMS platform is (re)born
• Why You Should Pay Attention to the Development of Orchard CMS
• Microsoft delivers version 1.0 of its open-source CMS platform