Reason Content Management System

We now have available for download a Reason 4.3 Virtual Machine (VM).

The VM is provided in Open Virtualization Format (OVF), compatible with VirtualBox, VMWare, and other virtualization software.

When you launch the VM, based on CentOS, it will get an IP address via DHCP and inform you of that IP on the login screen. You can then visit your Reason CMS instance in your favorite web browser.

Reason 4.3 is out!

Thanks to contributors from Beloit, Luther, Kalamazoo, and Carleton, this release features exciting new integration with Kaltura and Google Analytics, and a host of other improvements. Between Reason 4.2 and 4.3 we had 342 commits from 9 authors, with 751 changed files.

Carleton hosted the 3rd Reason Hack/Doc in Northfield, MN earlier this week. We had 14 folks attend, representing Beloit, Carleton, Kalamazoo, and Luther Colleges.

Carleton is hosting the 3rd Reason CMS Hack/Doc on December 3 and 4, 2012, where we will collectively write code and documentation with folks from Luther, Kalamazoo, and Beloit Colleges. We'll also be showcasing our Kaltura integration work, which adds some fantastic media handling features to Reason CMS.

Reason 4.2 was released today.

Thanks to the community for the many contributions to this release. Reason 4.2 includes enormous performance improvements under the hood, as well as some great new…

Reason 4.1 was officially released today. The new version contains improvements to the image content manager, administrative interface enhancements coded at the Reason HackDoc in December 2011, several new modules, and tons of bug fixes. We are also pleased to launch a new User Documentation site.

It has been a busy winter for Reason CMS. On December 5 and 6, we held the first Reason hack/doc here at Carleton. We've also presented sessions featuring Reason CMS at both the HighEdWeb conference and at Case V. In February, we'll share Reason with Minnesota schools at GusDay 2012.

The Reason LiveCD has been updated to the latest release (4.0).

The updated LiveCD is based on OpenSUSE 11.4, and the Reason CMS source is a clone of reason_package @ GitHub.

The Carleton College Web Services group is pleased to announce the availability of Reason 4.0.

A few updates from the world of Reason CMS - about our upcoming conference, the move to a fixed release schedule, and losing the "beta" label.

Happy Holidays - I have been away on parental leave, but now I'm back, and I wanted to post an update on a few things going on in the world of Reason CMS!

While I think pretty much everyone is running Reason under PHP 5, the next point release of Reason will be no longer support PHP 4. Nightly builds will likely stop supporting PHP 4 early in early January.

In other news, there are three items that will be in the next version of Reason (two are already in nightly builds) that I want to briefly highlight.

How Luther College is using Reason was published today on .eduGuru.

The article was written by Brian Jones, Web Programmer / Technology Coordinator at Luther College. Luther choose…