What will ExpressionEngine 2.0 look like? And a friendly wager!
Posted 2008-03-13 03:24 AMAfter the SXSW buzz over ExpressionEngine 2.0 wore off I pondered over my previous post and I felt that many of my ideas were very assumptive. I could be right on some of them or I could be so far off that I may look back at that post one day and laugh.
What will ExpressionEngine 2.0 really look like? Interestingly, a related question has been often asked as long as the CodeIgniter framework has existed. This related question is answered every day as developers work on projects using CodeIgniter. The related question - what should a CMS built on CodeIgniter look like? Answering the latter should give us some idea on how to answer the former and that is where the friendly wager comes into play.
The friendly wager.
I propose to the CodeIgniter community that we present our ideas of what ExpressionEngine will look like. As a contest, we could come up with individual ideas or form small groups. Whatever we do, we should keep the number of participants low, like maybe five presentations. Each presentation will be charged a low entrance fee which will go to the winner. At the end of the contest the presentations will be judged via a simple poll in the CodeIgniter forums.
The contest should be start soon and the presentations should be finished quickly because big details could be released at any time by Ellislab. A presentation does not have to use any code or go into excruciating detail, all it has to do is win! The judging may ultimately not be fair or totally democratic, but the process and the ideas is the main goal of the contest.
These rules can change based on input. At this point I believe the question should be answered from a developers perspective. Will CodeIgniter go through significant changes? How will modules fit into the system? How will templates be handled? But a presentation can take any form.
If the contest does not take off then I will write up my own presentation in a future post. If it does take off then I will update this post with the discussion thread. Stay tuned!
