I am in the process of collecting ideas for building an opensource CMS based on ASP.net framework.

I have choosen ASP.NET MVC with Jquery as the tool to develop this.

I have made this as community wiki.

Background: Most of the good CMS that is available is built on PHP, though off late CMS built on ASP.net framework seems to be cropping up. I would like to collect ideas/suggestion/expectations from an opensource CMS system for ASP.net platform. I am looking for expectation from technology and features that you wish could find in a modern CMS and any other thoughts/ideas that comes to your mind.

Your input would be of great help in this direction.

Meanwhile I am also reviewing many opensource CMS system built on ASP.net as well as MS Office Sharepoint to get ideas and I would update my findings here for your reference.

The following are some of the opensource CMS/BlogEngines that I am in the process of reviewing.

-Oxite (ASP.net MVC) : This is the new kid on the block

-Wordpress

-BlogEngine.net

-Umbraco

Some of the features that I can think of is noted below

• Simplified content creation
• Support Multiple content author
• Metadata feature
• Workflow engine
• Simplified deployment
• List based contents (sharepoint like)
• Customizable URL's
• Support content Caching
• Roles (contenauthor, contentpublisher etc)
• Support different types of content (like html, txt, document, image, videos)
• Skinnable (support extensible themes)
• Localization & Globalization
• Unlimited nesting of categories
• Readymade template for blog, forums,survey.
• Good documentation

You can add your points or add some depth to any of the above feature.