For the last three months we have been preparing Crowd Fusion in anticipation of an announcement that will put our framework in the hands of hundreds and hopefully thousands of developers and media companies. The timing was right, so we applied for TechCrunch 50 and were honored by the opportunity to present on stage and give this announcement.  Our framework, codename sprung, and Crowd Fusion CMS are now open source licensing.  For the next 6 to 8 weeks we'll be taking beta signups and working with developers who apply in preparation for a full public release.

Our core framework now uses Inversion of Control (IoC) and an event model to allow developers full access to the framework and easily extend it using plugins.  Layered on top of the framework is Crowd Fusion CMS, a set of plugins that give access to some core features we believe any web publishing venture needs.   News, Profiles, Media, Members and Comments are plugins in the Crowd Fusion CMS that give great examples of working with the framework and are easily extendable to accomplish unique implementations and applications.

There are many features we'll be writing about and exposing with our documentation, including a unique rendering engine, graph database implementation, robust tagging model, and much more.  There are many people to thank that helped us get to this milestone, specifically Ryan Scheuermann who was instrumental in the architectural design of our technology migration.