History
Exponent CMS was originally written and designed by James Hunt of OIC Group, Inc, starting in 2001. Minor contributions were made by other OIC members, Fred Dirkse, Greg Otte and Adam Kessler, but most of the original work was done by James. In 2005 James left the OIC Group. Not much besides bug fixes were done on Exponent from 2005 - 2006 as Fred tried to man the ship by himself. In 2006 Adam came back to OIC Group and together he and Fred started trying to revitalize the Exponent Project. The release of version 96.6 followed shortly thereafter.
During the summer of 2007 OIC hired Phillip Ball who was an active member of the Exponent CMS Open Source community. With Phillip on board OIC was able to quickly get version 0.97 out the door that same summer.
While trying to get the 0.97 release out the door Adam started planning out a new MVC framework for Exponent and Phillip was getting heavily involved with YUI Javascript Library. The two different research path converged in the fall of 2007 as together Adam and Phillip started on new version of Exponent CMS. Adam wrote the new Exponent Framework and Phillip went to work cleaning up and moderninzing the interface and trying to tightly integrate the YUI Javascript library. The result was Exponent 2 or Exponent MVC. Exponent 2 was released in the summer of 2011 following a series of pre-release versions.
In April 2012, independent developer Eric Boermsa took over the project, announcing a new version to be released in the fall with a completely rewritten front-end. Partner back-end expert, Julio, has signed on to join the rewrite.
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