June 11th - 2009

Happy birthday to us!

It was right around this time a year ago that we posted the first pre-release version of concrete5 alpha to sourceForge to see what people thought. Wow, what a year!

Since then we've reached over 250,000 people and had over 50,000 downloads.
We've got an active forum of 5,000 developers and designers who are eagerly helping each other, last week I even had a VC fund cold call _US_ for a change.

These are exciting economic times to be sure, but it looks like people still want to express themselves online and are looking for better ways to do so. Check out some of the media reviews we've been getting:

"...the PHP programming aspect is actually where Concrete5 really shines. The API is full-featured, robust and extremely easy to use."
eWeek

".. as more people generate richer content, entrepreneurs are recognizing the need for better systems to manage it."
sramana mitra - deal radar

"In practical use, C5 felt a lot like an easy-to-use website creator married with a full CMS platform on the back-end, making content and layout changes easy and quick, but allowing a lot of customization under the hood if
required."
ReadWriteWeb

Are you in the Portland area? Join us to celebrate our 1 year of open source next Thursday for our local meetup at Hopworks brewery.

Thanks for the awesome year, we're looking forward to many more.
- Franz Maruna
CEO http://concrete5.org