together with our friends of Kombinat (german) we implemented the presentation software for LITENET, an intelligent lighting management system. Powered by Plone, enhanced with Lovely Flash and XML communication. Online, Offline, Open, Flexible and in 5 languages: http://litenet.lovelysystems.com

Want to write open source this summer? Want to make money? Want to do both? Last year, Google spent $2,000,000 to fund 419 student projects across 49 countries with the help of 40 mentoring organizations. The Plone Foundation has a list of proposals to work on. Contact jodok.batlogg@lovelysystems.com, we’re will ing to support participating students and mentor them. Google Summer of Code

update: Günter Dressel’s Plone Player is submitted, on May 24th the results will be published!

iTheater

iTheater Projectpage
Pros:

• freeware
• OpenSource / GPL
• open for extensions

Cons:

• only Release Candidate
• not finished yet

MediaCentral

MediaCentral Projectpage
Pros:

• freeware
• supports EyeTV

• closest Userfeeling to FrontRow
• supports ATI Remote and Salling Clicker
• supports access to Bonjour shared Libraries from iTunes / iPhoto

Cons:

• UI not very maclike, not as beautiful as FrontRow

mMedia

mMedia Homepage
Pros:

• freeware
• supports EyeTV
• easy skinnable
• supports Internet radios, tv viewing via EyeTV
• more features than FrontRow in general

Cons:

• haven’t tried it yet ;-)

CenterStage

CenterStage Homepage
Pros:

• freeware
• OpenSource
• built in XCode and Obj C
• very extendable
• lot of Extensions (planned)
• very promising

Cons:

• not finished
• only a few features implemented yet

not free: FrontRow

Pros:

• preinstalled on new macs
• easy remote control
• tight integration into iLife and the OS

Cons:

• only on selected Apple hardware
• no extensions / limited features