Community Server Beta 1 Released

Community Server is a starter kit on steroids.

Highlights (as posted by Rob Howard):

- New administration UI
- Integrated blogs, forums, and gallery
- Forward-compatible with ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Manager, and Personalization
- Provider-based design for many features
- Support for add-ons
- Revamped and extended permissions

Community Server was built by the folks at Telligent, and I'd like to point out that Rob's All-Star team is comprised (nearly / completely?) of ASPInsiders like Scott Watermasysk and Jason Alexander. Congratulations guys!

In addition to Rob's posts, you can learn a bit more about CS features (including a screen shot or two) on Scott Watermasysk's weblog.