Welcome to the Movable Type Open Source Project
Starting with Movable Type 6, registration for the Movable Type Open Source (MTOS) license will end and a new license will be introduced. Please read an announcement for more details.
The Movable Type Open Source Project is a community effort, led by Six Apart, devoted to building and maintaining the open source version of Movable Type, the award winning, ground breaking and revolutionary blogging platform. This open source platform is free for anyone to modify, redistribute and use for any purpose that they choose. The Movable Type Open Source Project is more than just a piece of software however.
- MT is an entire community of people devoted to making Movable Type better.
- MT is a set of projects, including a full version of the core platform, designed to innovate upon how the world publishes online.
- MT is a distribution of the core publishing platform licensed under an open source license.
- You can make Movable Type better »
Project Goals
- To produce a powerful and easy to use open source blogging platform that can scale to meet anyone's needs.
- To serve as a role model in the adoption and application of open Internet web standards.
- To allow the community to collaborate more effectively on developing software for the Movable Type platform.
- To provide a staging ground for exciting and innovative new Internet technologies and standards.
- To nourish groups and individuals wishing to build on top of the platform, whether it is to fix a bug, develop a feature or build a business.
- To make it easier for others to start blogging by creating additional distribution channels.
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Byrne Reese was previously the Product Manager of Movable Type at Six Apart, where he had also held positions as the Manager of Platform Technology and Product Manager for TypePad. Byrne is a huge supporter of the Movable Type user and developer community. He dedicates much of his time to promoting and educating people about Movable Type as well as building the tools and plugins for Movable Type that are showcased on Majordojo. He contributes regularly to open source; and he is an advocate for open protocols and standards like Atom and OpenID.