My open-source CMS, Garlic-Hub, is now listed on Awesome Selfhosted.
This is a small but significant milestone for a niche project that’s still relatively unknown:
I’m continuing to work on making #DigitalSignage less dependent on proprietary cloud platforms.
@sagiadinos @opensource Interesting. What made you choose to make another CMS in PHP? What is the unique selling point of Garlic-Hub over Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and the others?
@mortn @opensource
It is specializing on Digital Signage with SMIL. :)
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@plutocrash @mortn @opensource
SMIL is a typical underrated format. Wrote an article some time ago on my blog.
It was re-discovered in 2010 for digital signage from IAdea, but:
The industry is super sales-driven.
Technicians have no influence and must defer to marketing. There’s hardly any “nerd” or “maker” scene.
Nearly everyone thinks they have to reinvent the wheel into the next big SaaS thing. Myself included. *lol*
For a few years now, I’ve been taking a different path.
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@plutocrash @mortn @opensource
Replacing billboards with screens, public info displays, advertising dissplays…
Real life signs on digital media. Think menus on restaurant screens.