Promoting and sponsoring OpenCms

If you are using OpenCms to run your website, you will benefit from the increasing success of OpenCms as it gains more and more widespread use. The more sites run OpenCms, the more active the OpenCms community will become, and the more bug fixes and new features will be added to the system. You will benefit directly because new versions with new features and other add-ons will become available to you for download. Please help us to ensure the continued success of OpenCms by promoting or sponsoring the system.

Promote OpenCms

Link to the OpenCms homepage

If you are using OpenCms to run a site, please promote the system by putting a small note and a link to the OpenCms homepage (http://www.opencms.org) somewhere in your website where such notes usually appear. Let the world know you're using OpenCms!

Please use the following text to link to OpenCms from your website:

This website is managed with OpenCms - The Open Source Content Management System

 

Add your site to the list of OpenCms references

Please add your OpenCms based site to our list of OpenCms Reference Sites. It doesn't matter if you have used OpenCms to build a public website or Intranet or Extranet. Include some details about how you successfully used OpenCms in the description. You can always edit and change your reference listing later.

Spread the word about OpenCms

Recommend OpenCms to your colleagues, business partners, friends or other people you know who are working in the IT area. Make sure you tell everyone that has an interest in the topic that you use OpenCms, the professional Open Source Content Management System, to manage your website.

Put the OpenCms logo on your website

It would be great if you put the OpenCms logo on your homepage, or elsewhere on your website where it seems appropriate. Of course, it would be best if you combine the logo with a link to the OpenCms homepage. In case you want to use the logo, please note the trandemark notice below.

OpenCms logos that you can on your website:

OpenCms logo 75 pixels wide
OpenCms logo 100 pixels wide
OpenCms logo 150 pixels wide
OpenCms logo 200 pixels wide

Alkacon OpenCms and the OpenCms logo are registered trademarks of Alkacon Software GmbH in Germany, the USA and other countries.

Permission is granted to use the OpenCms logo under the following conditions: a) the logo is used only for promoting the official OpenCms software available from the opencms.org b) the logo is used on a website, not printed material or any other media c) the trademark notice given above is also reproduced on the website. In case you want to use the OpenCms logo for any other purpose, no general permission is granted to use the logo. In this case please contact Alkacon Software .

Sponsor OpenCms

Consider Alkacon Softwares services

Alkacon Software is responsible for the main OpenCms core development and is also the maintainer of this website. We offer a variety of professional OpenCms related services. These include Support Agreements, Training Courses and individual OpenCms Consulting and Development. Moreover, we have developed the Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions (also called OCEE), a commercial extension for OpenCms for use in mission critical installations.

By using Alkacon Softwares OpenCms products and services, you ensure that the Alkacon OpenCms development team can continue working on adding new features to the system.

Get involved

Volunteering your time and getting involved in the OpenCms community is also highly encouraged in order to support the OpenCms project. Please see the How to contribute page in the developer section to learn how you can participate in the OpenCms development.