We've been very busy, and have a lot to show for it. Late last year we created the Community Center <http://community.cakephp.org/>, as a central location for everyone to find their way around, and help people get involved with the project. This year we launched My CakePHP<http://my.cakephp.org/>, as a hub for developers to create a profile, and unify the experience across all of our sites. The Cake Software Foundation<http://cakefoundation.org/>website also received a well overdue facelift. Additionally, after continuous requests, and with a little help from CakeDC <http://cakedc.com/>, we improved the schedule for the official CakePHP training<http://training.cakephp.org/>, which is now provided on a regular basis.
Earlier this year we also announced our agreement with Microsoft to make CakePHP available on Windows Azure<http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/cakephp.aspx>. That doesn't mean you can't get your piece of the cake on other platforms, such as Rackspace's Cloud Sites<http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/installing-cakephp-on-cloud-sites>, Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk<http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_PHP_cakePHP.html>or RedHat's OpenShift <https://www.openshift.com/quickstarts/cakephp>, as well as other PaaS providers, like Pagoda Box<http://help.pagodabox.com/customer/portal/articles/174049-cakephp>or Fortrabbit <http://fortrabbit.com/solutions/cakephp-hosting>. There's a lot to choose from. It was also great to see that, since our efforts last year<http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/jameswatts/2012/12/28/cakephp_community_2012>to extend the reach of the CakePHP community, both the Facebook interest page <https://www.facebook.com/pages/CakePHP/112600242088531> and our official Twitter account <https://twitter.com/cakephp> have reached over 10,000 likes and followers each. The official group<https://www.facebook.com/groups/cake.community/>on Facebook also surpassed 3,000 members, becoming even larger than groups for other major PHP frameworks. But the growth didn't stop there. We had almost 1 million more visits to the CakePHP sites compared to last year, with the CookBook <http://book.cakephp.org/> seeing nearly an additional 10 million page views, reaching over 26 million. For more numbers and stats check out this year's community keynote<http://www.slideshare.net/JamesWatts4/cakephp-community-keynote> . Which takes us to San Francisco, USA, where we held CakeFest<http://cakefest.org/>2013, the annual conference dedicated to everything CakePHP. Over 80 developers from around the world joined us for 4 days of workshops and conference. We listened to your feedback from the previous year and broke the workshop schedule into beginner and advanced sessions over the first 2 days. This was then followed by another 2 days of 16 talks given by 12 international speakers, as well as keynotes<http://www.slideshare.net/josezap1/cake-fest-2013-keynote>, lightning<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257493958135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater> talks<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257491388135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater>, core team<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257483473135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater>Q&A, and the raffle<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257505438135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater>. We took away some really memorable<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257496813135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater> moments<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257493973135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater>, the best of all being the "Hour of Contribution", where we saw everyone contributing to the project for an hour, in true open source fashion. It was a beautiful sight, and a humbling experience. Oh, and who could forget about the cake <https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/374262949780533248>! But wait, there's more. Work has been going strong on version 3.0<https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/tree/3.0>of CakePHP, with the new ORM almost ready for it's first developer preview release. The roadmap <https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/wiki/3.0-Roadmap>is slowly being completed, with the milestone <https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/issues?milestone=7&state=open>available for anyone to join in on the fun. In the meantime, this year saw the release of versions 2.3 and 2.4 of the framework, with a sum of 28 releases in total. There's also been a lot of activity in the developer community, with almost 6,000 additional questions tagged<http://stackoverflow.com/tags/cakephp>on Stack Overflow this past year alone. We also saw some interesting <http://patisserie.keensoftware.com/en/cakes> projects<http://neptunide.com/>released, a couple of videos <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-S-PDGLG4>, interviews<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSKL-QtuOcI>and books <http://www.packtpub.com/develop-a-feature-rich-cakephp-app/book> published<http://www.amazon.com/CakePHP-Unit-Testing-das-Radharadhya-ebook/dp/B00BNHWZTS>, a few useful <http://dogmatic69.com/sql-to-cakephp-find-converter> tools<http://dogmatic69.com/cakephp-schema-checker>, as well as some nice cheat <http://cakephpcheatsheet.com/> sheets<http://sandbox.pontefamily.us/pages/cakephp_cheat_sheet>. Not to mention some great <http://friendsofcake.com/> initiatives<http://www.scoop.it/t/cakephp-reporter>, and of course, an honorable mention to core member Jose Gonzalez, who delivered a total of 25 successive posts on his blog as part of his CakePHP advent<http://josediazgonzalez.com/2013/12/01/testing-your-cakephp-plugins-with-travis/>series. For all our Japanese developers, there was a similar <http://www.adventar.org/calendars/40> series created previous years. Overall, 2013 was an amazing year, and one to be proud of as a member of the community! A big thank you goes out to everyone who has been involved and helped make CakePHP what it is - a framework built by the community! Thank you. Link: http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/jameswatts/2013/12/29/cakephp_community_2013 -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. 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