Matt Hornsby

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Founded in 2004, CMS Made Simple Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to developing, maintaining, and supporting CMS Made Simple (CMSMS), a free, open-source content management system licensed under GNU/GPL. The non-profit company is based in Sooke, Canada. The foundation ensures perpetual free access to CMSMS software and related tools, fostering a collaborative platform for web designers, developers, and professionals worldwide. CMS Made Simple is designed primarily for professional developers to build small to medium-sized, semi-static websites with an emphasis on ease of use, expandability, and full control over site layout and appearance. It features a user-friendly interface for content editors and a powerful, extensible backend for developers, leveraging an extensive API and the Smarty templating engine to enable customization without requiring PHP coding. The system supports a wide range of third-party modules and tags, facilitating the creation of feature-rich websites and applications. The foundation operates a comprehensive ecosystem including a central website built on CMSMS itself, offering resources such as documentation, downloads, forums, support channels, newsletters, and professional services. It encourages community involvement through development teams, partnerships, donations, and open collaboration initiatives like the "module forking project," which maintains and modernizes third-party modules. A key component of the foundation’s infrastructure is "the forge," a collaborative platform providing source code repositories, bug and feature tracking, and file release management for CMSMS-related projects. The foundation enforces open-source licensing compliance, project activity standards, and trademark use policies, and adheres to privacy and GDPR regulations.