Nameless CMS is the in-development content management system being used at FIUSM.com, the student-run website at Florida International University. It was developed by Rick Martinez, the first editor of FIUSM.com.
The plan is to clean it up and release it to the public. As we develop features on FIUSM.com, we update the source for Nameless CMS to allow other institutions to use it as well. It is a CMS that is being developed with the content teams that power Student Media at FIU, which consists of FIUSM.com; The Beacon Newspaper, FIU’s student-run newspaper; and Radiate FM, FIU’s student-run radio station.
By developing the system in a live production workflow, a CMS is being developed not by developers, but by the editors and reporters that use it each and every day. At the same time, a newsroom manager is being developed that won’t be bloated with features that editors and writers won’t use, only with the ones they demand to make their jobs easier.
The source code will be opened as soon as possible. I’m not waiting for the code to be “ready for the public.” I want the public to see how we’re developing it, the problems we run into in a production environment, and that progress is being made for the sake of the advancement of student media.
If you have any questions, please contact rick.martinez@fiusm.com.