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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am new to OpenCms and am trying to develop a web application using it. Over the past month or so, I have posted many messages to this list, but only received a few replies to various questions. I have also noticed in the message archives a lot more questions than answers. Open-source projects that do well usually have a good community behind them to help out new users, along with demos and good documentation. While, OpenCms has the best docs of any open-source CMS project I have looked into, I don't see enough help on the mailing list. For example, a project like Resin, which has a very small team of developers, has its lead developer posting regularly to the mailing list to help people. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I hope that Alkacon can devote more resources to monitoring the list and helping new users and thus grow the community of experienced users (who in turn can help people out on the list).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-andy kriger</FONT>
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