[Cocoon Wiki] Updated: ApacheConAboutUs

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   Date: 2004-11-07T11:41:02
   Editor: BertrandDelacretaz <bd...@codeconsult.ch>
   Wiki: Cocoon Wiki
   Page: ApacheConAboutUs
   URL: http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/ApacheConAboutUs

   Feel free to edit if this sounds too marketing-oriented ;-)

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 = ApacheCon 20004: Why the Cocoon project rocks =
 
+== The community ==
+For many of us the Cocoon community feels like a nice place to hang out and work creatively and efficiently.
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+The GetTogether 2004 (held in Ghent, Belgium at the beginning of November) brought together more than 130 people from more than 15 countries to talk about Cocoon and work on it during a very successful Hackathon and conference.
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+The mix of different ways of working, different cultures and different levels of business involvement with Cocoon has helped create a very rich and diverse community.
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+== The project ==
+Although many companies have been using Cocoon in production for several years, in the last months there have seen several public announcements by important media groups, top 100 banks and other companies of which several had been kepping a low profile before, about mission-critical and high performance websites and applications built on Cocoon. 
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+More than "just" a web applications framework, Cocoon is quietly becoming a world-class applications platform, enabling a wide range of applications to be created efficiently and in a very flexible way.
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+== The software ==
+Last but not least, the Cocoon code has matured a lot in the last year, with clear directions about several key parts being agreed upon by the community, and stabilized in their APIs and functionality.
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+Despite this maturity, work has recently begun, in parallel, on an important rewrite of the core internal components, which should eventually make Cocoon even more modular and adaptable to various needs.