Welcome

CMS Garden for decision makers

You are wondering which CMS is the best – or the best suitable for you? Find all the relevant open source CMS in one place: compare and decide. Brought to you by the communities themselves - welcome to the Garden where all the plants grow peacefully side by side!

CMS Garden for CMS workers

Looking for cross-CMS exchange of insights, best practises, working groups? Or are you still undecided what technology to base your further career on? Get in touch with other open source community members, support our activities!

Participating Content Management Systems

Read in detail about the characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of each free and open source CMS.

Upcoming dates

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All-CMS meetup

Monthly open online meetup

Online-Event
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CMS Consultation

Free online consulting on a regular basis

Online-Event
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FrOSCon

Free and Open Source Conference

Hybrid-Event // Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Sankt Augustin or online
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DrupalCamping

Camping site Wolfsburg Allersee, Wolfsburg
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All-CMS meetup

Monthly open online meetup

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Magazine

Ramdomly picked articles from our magazine

Blog

Deciding on Open Source

About content managements systems, open source software, and the licenses

The introductory text to the CMS Gardener's Guide gives a brief overview over open source software and content management systems in general.

Stephan Luckow
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Initiatives

„Blind people are not our target audience“

Why accessibility for everyone actually affects—well, everyone

If you have ever planned a website you might have heard about accessibility before. You might have even noted “accessible system” as a requirement, and by doing so you have checked it off a list? We...

Jens Pelzetter
Web projects

The right concept

How to ruin you project with sloppy requirements before it even gets started

It all depends on proper planning: from meeting the budget to deciding for the appropriate content management system.

Meike Jung
Aline Skibitzki
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