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Happy fifth birthday, Contao
by Leo Feyer – Announcements
Exactly five years ago today, the Contao project has been registered at sourceforge.net - it was still called TYPOlight back then. Two weeks later, on March 12th, 2006, version 1 was published.
Since then, the success of the project and its community has grown steadily: In January 2011 alone, the software has been downloaded 25,000 times. Among the many users, there are meanwhile also well-known companies like McFit, Lufthansa Systems or Fujitsu as well as prominent individuals like Demba Ba or Alfons Schuhbeck.
Important milestones
| Date | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| February 28th, 2006 | The TYPOlight project is registered at sourceforge.net |
| March 12th, 2006 | The first version of the Open Source CMS is released. |
| November 24th, 2006 | The software has been totally reworked and version 2 has been published. |
| March 27th, 2007 | The first TYPOlight screencast has been created by Ben Robinson. |
| May/June 2007 | TYPOlight is mentioned in the press for the first time: the project is featured in the PHP Journal and the Internet Professional magazine. |
| November 6th, 2007 | TYPOlight comes in second as "Most Promising Open Source CMS" at the yearly Packt Publishing CMS Award. |
| April 18th, 2008 | The first official user meeting takes place in Würzburg, Germany, and the TYPOlight core team is introduced. |
| May 24th, 2008 | As the result of a logo competition within the community, the TYPOlight logo is released in its final design. |
| August 6th, 2008 | The German version of the project website is launched. |
| September 2nd, 2008 | The official TYPOlight book written by the Contao founder and core developer, Leo Feyer, is published by Addison-Wesley. |
| September 10th 2008 | The Extension Repository becomes the central platform for third-party extensions and is integrated into the back end. |
| April 30th, 2009 | With more than 100 tickets, version 2.7 is the biggest release in the history of the project. |
| May 22nd, 2009 | The second official user meeting takes place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. |
| September 23rd, 2009 | The project website is being reworked a third time and relaunched with its current design. |
| December 15th, 2009 | The first TYPOlight video training is published by Video2Brain. |
| February 16th, 2010 | TYPOlight version 2.8 is released. |
| May 14th, 2010 | The third official user meeting takes place in Essen, Germany. The name change from TYPOlight to Contao is announced. |
| July 2nd, 2010 | With the final release of version 2.9, the name change is taking effect. TYPOlight is now Contao. |
| October 7th, 2010 | Contao is a guest at the Open Expo 2010. |
| Autumn 2010 | Further Contao books and video trainings are published by Galileo Computing, Addison-Wesley and mitp. |
| January 11th, 2011 | The planning phase for the Contao conference 2011 begins. |
| January 25th, 2011 | The Contao partner programm is reworked and the premium status is created. |
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