Reason Content Management System

We recently received a request to move an externally hosted site into our local Reason instance. The challenge is that the domain name is supposed to remain outside of the carleton.edu realm. Reason has never supported this natively, though it could be achieved with unpleasant hacks. With Reason 4 Beta 8, this will all change and subdomains and external domains will be fully supported.

Bonus benefit of this work: the reason_package folder will no longer have to be within the web tree.

The Web Services Group at Carleton is making our boring News page into a lively blog! Watch this space for various forms of Reason-related geekery from members of our team. Let the fun begin.

Reason 4 Beta 7 is now available.

Our poster, titled "Reason CMS: Open Source Content Management for Higher Education," won the Best Poster award at the HighEdWeb 2007 conference.

You can now request a pre-configured copy of Reason 4 Beta 4 that you can test out using the free VMware player.

We're plugging away here at Carleton, moving closer to a state where we'll be ready to lock down features and start publishing release candidates. This article contains a list of the issues we are currently working on.

We're happy to announce a new Reason beta release, Reason 4.0 Beta 3. It contains a lot of improvements and cleanup, and should be notably simpler to install. Download it today!

Visit the new Carleton Opensource Forums for Reason support and discussion.