I just received word that Portland’s Concrete5, one of our favorite content management systems, will be presenting tonight at OSCON.
What’s that? You thought Concrete5 was commercial software…? Yeah, well it was. Until recently.
Concrete CMS was first developed in 2003 as commercial enterprise software. Headquartered in Portland, OR, the Concrete team had always been proponents and enthusiastic users of open source, but until this year had only released full source code to their clients for a fee. Now at O’Reilly OSCON 2008, concrete5 will be released to the public under the MIT License, a popular and nonrestrictive open source license.
The session will be held tonight (Monday, July 21) at the Oregon Convention Center, E143/144, at 7:00PM.
What’s Concrete5?
concrete5 is a PHP/MySQL based CMS that is easy for site owners to use, flexible for developers to work with, and is simply the new version of our enterprise level solution that powers such sites as Lemonade.com, Indie911.com, and LewisAndClark200.org to just name a few. After years of being evil software guys, we’ve seen the light and have gone fully open source.
We’ll give a tour of why and how c5 was put together and what it’s doing well today. We’ll quickly install and build out a small site, and then we’ll get into some geeky stuff and do questions.
For more information, see the OSCON listing for the Concrete5 demo.
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Thanks so much for helping us get the word out on this on such short notice. You rock!
We’re looking to get as much feedback as possible on this and to hopefully get some more contributors for the project, so please drop us a line if you’re into what we’re doing. See you there