We're pleased to announce the first release of OpenMission Community Server!

The OpenMission Community Server offers a comprehensive suite of leading missionware and community-focused transactional web applications that will support missionaries of the Christian faith in fulfilling the Great Commission.

The OpenMission Community Server features an integrated application suite that offers functionality that would be difficult to build with multiple vendor platforms. This integrated system offers missions a number of benefits, namely the ability to turn on features as they are needed.

OpenMission was designed to be secure "out of the box", but also to offer a platform upon which missions can confidently share secure and private information. With innovative functionality such as single sign‐on, private user content, secure syndication, private files, and private messages, OpenMission community Server allows you to confidently support both public and private aspects of the community.

Included in this release are some awesome features such as:

• Tags – ability to add free form tags to content and then use tag clouds and other tools to filter content.
• Content Mirroring – ability to configure a blog to be subscribed to one or more external RSS sources bringing that content into the site for visitors and making the content searchable.
• Post Relevance sorting – allows site owners to use new post relevance algorithm (optional) for blog aggregation page. This feature allows popular content to stay “above the fold” longer.
• Invitations – ability to configure site so that only invited users can join the community.
• Badges – members of the site each receive a community badge that can easily be displayed in a variety of locations, such as external blogs.
• Feedburner / external RSS support – easily use tools, such as Feedburner, for sharing your RSS feeds on blogs. 

OpenMission runs on a unique combination of technologies. We use best-of-breed commercial and open source technologies integrated together to form an enterprise platform to provide the best solution possible for fulfilling missions needs.

The OpenMission platform is constantly being innovated and improved. It is build upon the Community Server offering of Telligent Systems, who are committed to continuously building and innovating on their software platform. The Telligent team works with its customers and OpenMission to constantly refine existing features and try new features. OpenMission Community Server is a platform that will provide you with value‐‐often times before you need it.

Check out our list of the OpenMission Technology Stack to see the core technologies used in creating the OpenMission platform.