Concrete The Studio

by Franz

Well, we’ve been talking about our community marketplace for weeks now, and the first step is finally complete. We reorganized concrete5.org, buffed out the documentation features, added a job board, built out forums - even added a bounties forum where you can get paid to help on the project.

This just the beginning of new stuff you’ll be seeing on concrete5.org in the coming weeks. There will be a large theme library, a blocks and applications marketplace, and much more. Right now we need your help buffing out the content in forums and giving us any feedback you can.

Check it out!

by Franz

The c5 docs need some love, and we’re adding to them every day. That being said, we need your help explaining how c5 solves YOUR problems. We know people are already building blocks and themes with c5, we want you to tell us how!

Write a how-to. Tell us how you built that custom block, or how you took your design and built a concrete5 site out of it. Please make it a little more technical than just “here’s my site” - ask yourself “could someone else learn something out of what I’m writing?”

Give us written words with pictures, or go out on a limb and do a screencast. We’ll accept either.

If we deem it helpful enough to post to the concrete5.org site, we will:

1. Link to your site with your name in lights. (no we won’t make it blink, but yes thats the idea)
2. We’ll send you a free c5kit, or $55 (us) via paypal - your choice.
3. We’ll be very thankful to you, and its nice when people are thankful.

by Franz

Yeah that’s right. C5 rocks so amazingly hard that SourceForge decided to make us Project of The Month after only being on their site for 3 months! We’ve always thought of source forge as the Rolling Stone of open source - so we took some liberties with our photos…

Check out the whole article here!

Yay, THANK YOU SourceForge…

by Franz

you gotta see it, particularly the flash demo.

be a pal and pay us to host your site…

by Franz

Mark Moore says:

“Thanks for letting me play with C5 at OSCON. How many people did you meet that week? YIKES!!! I switched over from Drupal to C5 within a day. I am loving it! Thanks a bunch for the demo.”

Here’s his bike - which looks equally fast… oh wait, what’s that on the front? Guess we’re not the only ones who love c5, that’s an awfully nice lookin’ machine!

thanks Mark, you rock!

Want some c5 stickers and a multi-purpose “concrete5″ screwdriver too? Just drop us a line with your address. Stick your sticker somewhere equally cool, and send us a picture.

by Franz

Ever since osCon08 we’ve been getting this question a lot. We even got it from the Drupal volunteers who essentially asked ‘with Drupal in the world, why would you even build another CMS?’ I think the answer is pretty obvious from just watching the screencast or playing with the demo on concrete5.org, but here’s some thoughts I’ve had with people via email recently:

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by Franz

Well no one on our end posted to you, because you’re quite clear that Beta projects shouldn’t be posted in your rules… and yes.. we read rules.. sometimes.

However, someone from your end must of been at osCon because we appeared on your site a few days ago. Here’s a snapshot of our google analytics for the last month:

Gotta say, we were gonna wait till we had a release we were calling final before posting to you, OpenSourceCMS.com. The fact that we just magically showed up is great! We’ll just take that as a pat on the back that what we consider Beta is pretty damn stable, and we’d like to say thanks.

(ps: hey reader, wanna help? vote for us on their site. when they first added us they linked to our demo in such a way that it wouldn’t work so we got some low votes that are messing up our average.)

by Franz

Just a quickie video I put together over the weekend of our experience at OsCon this year. Thanks o’Reilly!

by Franz

looks like some of the emerging c5 community is starting to talk about what we’re doing on their own blogs.. here’s a couple of the posts we’ve found, by all means comment if we missed ya:

http://www.codeblog.ch/2008/07/cms-concrete5/

http://jaipandya.com/2008/07/concrete5-a-nextgen-open-source-cms/

thanks!