ImpressCMS is pleased to present our financial reports for 2008 and the first half of 2009. We had promised a report at the beginning of this year, but some pressing issues arose that delayed this report until now. We apologize for the delay and truly intend to be more frequent in our reporting.

In 2008, we began accepting donations and placements for advertising on our web sites.

All monies are accepted through and held in our PayPal account. In addition to these funds, several domains have been added to our assets and are under our control. The report is attached to this bulletin as a PDF document.

With this report, we hope to be back on track for quarterly reports, the next being published in October 2009.

How will this money be used?

We have basic expenses at this point - domain registration and hosting costs. The good news is that our hosting is currently provided by INBOX International Hosting so we don't need to worry about spending funds there. This gives us much more scope for improving the project! Domain registrations were done individually and later granted to the ImpressCMS Board. With those basics taken care of, we can focus on building the brand, expanding our reach and improving our CMS.

We're a community-driven project and as a community we believe you should have some involvement in how we spend funds.

Later in the year and running into 2010 we plan to launch another website which will be geared towards getting the community involved. We hope to host competitions for designers, get feedback on certain issues and have input on how some of the funds will be spent and a whole host of other things, including community awards for those of you who dedicate a portion of their time to helping others and these won't just be a pat on the back either.

This project is a community project and together we will continue to move forwards and thrive, for this we thank you.

If you were thinking about getting involved somehow, then now is the time!

About ImpressCMS

In its short history, ImpressCMS has surpassed over 9,000 commits to its code base, been a finalist in the 2008 SourceForge Community Choice Awards and placed 3rd in the Packt Publishing Most Promising Open Source CMS.

The goal of the ImpressCMS Project is to stimulate and promote the open source nature of the CMS in both the core and its modules and establish itself as the premiere CMS by expanding the system to meet the needs of their users now and well into the future.

ImpressCMS is -
* Open Source
* Open Development - Apply now!
* Open Philosophy
* Open Community

I want to get involved!

If you're looking to join the ImpressCMS project, then get on board! All you need to do is head on over and fill in the following form: I want to join the ImpressCMS Team!

We're always on the look out for talented people who can develop, design, test pre-releases, support and contribute to the community in anyway possible, if your unsure of how you can help but have a desire to get involved then get in touch and we'll work something out.

If you would like to donate to ImpressCMS, you may do so at www.impresscms.org/donations/

Contact:
The ImpressCMS Project
Timothy Bowers and Steve Kenow
Spokespersons
press@impresscms.org