Content? Management? System? - Elin Waring

We call it a content management system but what does that mean in the web today? What we mean by web content has changed radically since 2003 when the Joomla!'s content model was created. New ideas like the Unified Content Model are poised to reshape how we think about creating and managing original content. At the same time, the web is more and more about pulling and pushing data from all over and web site construction is about putting together external data in original and compelling ways that empower users.Other newer parts of the Joomla Platform empower applications to Managing this new mix of internal and external, user generated and site generated, service providing and service consuming also needs different structures and designs than the web of 2003, when using just a database was really still in its infancy. And system? Well we know it will be called Joomla! but how do we put all those pieces together? Joomla CMS 4 is less than 2 years away ... let's start a conversation about what it will look like.