Community Kit for Sharepoint :Corporate Intranet Edition Needs You

[Application Development]

We are seeking individuals interested in helping kickstart the Corporate
Intranet Edition of the Community Kit for SharePoint.

The CKS:Corporate Intranet Edition

There are several editions that haven’t progressed beyond some initial
research. One of them is the Corporate Intranet Edition. The features
envisioned for this edition are, mainly:

A set of professionally designed master pages and CSS themes
A set of templates such as “corporate crisis management”, “risk management”
or SOX-compliance template
Wildcard search
Taxonomy and Tagging content
Site creation wizard, to help a user to choose between 40+ templates (most
of which will come from Application Templates for SharePoint)

The current state of affairs is that since the beginning we haven’t had the
momentum that other CKS editions had, and we couldn’t push the edition to
something releasable. The main effort was made by Edin Kapic, Dee Anne Kotzur
and myself, but the real-life issues and lack of commitment/feedback from the
community took its toll.

However, we’re determined to get the project back to the track and push it
forward. But, we can’t do it alone. We need your help!

How Can You Help?
First, check the overall CKS project information and ask yourself if you are
really into it. Committing to a community project isn’t something to be
judged lightly. You will have to spare some time regularly to make the
project progress, or to inform the rest of the team how are you doing, due to
sporadic nature of the work in a community of developers.

Do you still want to contribute?

Please keep in mind that your contribution doesn’t necessary have to be code
development. This project will eventually need testers and documentation
writers as much as developers. If you have trusted colleagues or friends who
would be good at either of those roles, please recruit them to be part of the
project team.

Ok, so you still want to help us or you know somebody that could help us in
CKS:CIE project?

Send an e-mail to either Russ Basiura (russ AT rjbtech.com) or (ekapic AT
gmail.com), explaining your contribution idea and your short background. We
will contact you shortly after that.

I don’t want/have time to commit but I have an idea that should be
incorporated into CKS:CIE

Please feel free to comment that at the official CKS:CIE page at CodePlex.

The Final Words
Thank you for your interest in reading this post. The SharePoint community
is a powerful thing that we all comprise, and we hope that together provide
another great community contribution.