Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused content management system written in

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platform using the

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framework. Its vision is to create shared components for building ASP.NET applications and extensions, and specific applications that leverage these components to meet the needs of end-users, scripters, and developers. Orchard is delivered as part of the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery under the

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. It is licensed under a

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, which is approved by the

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(OSI). The predecessor of Orchard wa
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Project status

Orchard is currently in active community-driven development. The project includes an extensibility model for both modules and themes, a dynamic content type system, ease of customization, localization and more. Although several of primary developers work for

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, it is no longer an officially developed Microsoft product, and is under the auspices of the .NET Foundation. The project is managed by th
Orchard Steering Committee
based on
published governance model
Steering Committee members are elected by the community annually.

References

External links

* * Orchard Themes and Modules Gallery
Orchard: Microsoft's open-source CMS platform is (re)born

Why You Should Pay Attention to the Development of Orchard CMS

Boston Orchard CMS User Group
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