I just checked novell and we have cleared the 1000 download mark.  Alpha 2 really fueld us to the thousand with 175 downloads this month.  This comes at the perfect time as we plan [ keep fingers cross] to release Alpha 3.0 tomorrow if it passes our [my] QA testing.  I wont be harsh :).  However, it will give the new developers something to start from and offer old/new dev users of rainbow a chance to see how rainbow fairs on .NET 2.0.

Major changes :

XHTML Tradtional 1.0 output
Refactored Simplified Core
Modules to XHTML Standard
Partial Classes on all Modules
.NET 2.0 Rewrite out of the box

 Compressed Pages

Features for next Month(s):
Membership
Skins and Themes
Master Pages
Compressed Pages [ my personal fav]
Lighter Core
Stronger , more robust Modules

If youre an ASP.NETer and would like to contribute to a growing 2.0 project and love the latest techs then hit my email ramseur [at]gmail.com .  We are always up for good ideas that we believe should be standard in rainbow for the true Portal XP.

Cheers,