Preside
The FOSS Enterprise Application Platform
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About me
Dominic Watson
- Technical Lead @ Pixl8 Interactive
- Lead developer of Preside
- Borderline "millenial"
- Like making bread (but not very good at it)
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About Pixl8
- Web development agency since early 2000's specializing in CMS and web applications for membership style organisations
- Based in London + Kuala Lumpur
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How we see ourselves
A growing competitor for mid to large-scale commercial content platforms; open sourced. We work openly and with integrity to create a platform for and with our community.
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Our mission
To build an out-of-box web application foundation that does as much of the laborious, hard and overlooked work for you, accelerating teams as they focus on unique requirements.
To build a community and platform that leads by example; that is a joy to use, a joy to work with and a joy to participate in.
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Our vision
Preside solving complex needs for a wide breadth of industries and communities. A well-known name founded on openness and excellence.
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So, what is Preside?
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Clue: not really just a CMS
But we do CMSy things
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Asset management
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User logins and perms
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Datamanager
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Form builder
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But, it can all be turned off
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Core admin features
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Audit trail
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Editable system settings
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Task manager
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API Manager
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Rules engine
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What does a preside
website look like?
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What does a preside
application look like?
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Cascading inheritance
Your application (TOP DOG)
Extension 1
Extension 2
Extension 3
Preside core
Let's take a look :)
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What's coming in 10.9
- Coldbox 4
- Extensions as modules with submodule support
- Super caching framework
- Admin building enhancements
- Context sidebar
- Super Launcher
- Single record views
- REST API Manager (official)
Thanks for listening
https://www.preside.org
https://community.preside.org
https://presidecms-slack.herokuapp.com/
https://presidecms.atlassian.net
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Preside intro
By Dominic Watson
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