http://fosiki.com/blog Sven Dowideit - Consulting Wiki Engineer Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:34:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 3 weeks into a fork compelled by the Trademark problems of the 10 year old TWiki name, and we're almost fully reborn. Foswiki - started out as Free, Open Source Wiki - When Community matters. Next steps for us will be to create the Foswiki Association, and to release Foswiki v1.0 - ... http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/11/19/foswiki-790-commits-in-3-weeks-and-now-we-have-a-name/ We might not yet have a name, but we've had over 100 commits per week, plus the 400 odd coming from my importing into our repository. The rebranding changes for the ****** v1.0 release have been declared 80% done, so the worst case estimate would see the other 80% take ... http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/11/15/week-2-in-nextwiki-still-running-at-breakneck-speeds/ What a busy week. We've now been freed up to execute our plans, and so as of the first NextWiki meeting (4am Sydney time - i'm shattered) we have: A plan for a new name (round one selections done), so we can re-brand with our own message and a functioning web ... http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/11/04/one-week-later-in-nextwiki/ In September 2008, there was a TWiki Summit in Berlin, at which a Community Council was elected by Community members to move the TWiki.org project to independence from the TWIKI.NET startup. A few days ago, TWIKI.NET responded, by taking over full control of all of TWiki.org's servers, locking everyone out ... http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/10/29/twiki-stops-being-open-source/ see me at OSDC 2008 - 3-5 December 2008. I'll be giving a short talk and demo: Traditional Wikis are about developing 'legacy' documents. Wikipedia is an asymptotic example where the ideal is to craft a perfect topic that accurately and concisely covers its subject matter. Enterprise Wikis have a different focus ... http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/10/27/what-makes-an-enterprise-wiki-special/ TWiki 4.2 JeOS VM mirror 1 460MB (USA) TWiki 4.2.3, (does not include VMware): Easy installation on Windows, Linux and OSX! Trivial upgrades of TWiki and TWiki Plugins Summary: This package enables you to quickly and easily install a pre-configured TWiki 4.2 'software appliance' on Windows, by using the free VMware Player or ... http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/10/24/twiki-423-jeos-virtual-machine/ TWiki 4.2 for windows - with fully integrated native installers that will update your Computer with perl, apache and other tools needed to run TWiki. The first of these installers released is the  Windows TWiki installer, and includes Apache 2.2, (apache_2.2.10-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8i.msi) ActiveState Perl (ActivePerl-5.8.8.824-MSWin32-x86-287188.msi) Gnu Grep Gnu rcs Vanilla TWiki 4.2.3. If ... http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/10/21/twiki-423-windows-installer-update/ If like me, you're looking for an older release of Solaris - so you can replicate a client's setup, you can find them at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/releases.jsp I couldn't find it without help - as Sun's web site is a study in how to make things impossible to find. Now to install Solaris 10 update ... http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/10/12/older-releases-of-solaris-10/ Larry Augustin talks about the difference in how open source is selected and perceived between the US and Europe - roughly boiling down to: US companies see Open source as a free ride they can take to getting their millions, whereas Europeans see Open source as a way to reduce risk, ... http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/09/25/open-source-culture-clash/ I wasn't able to travel from Sydney, Australia to Berlin for this summit - which means I've missed all 3 of them so far :(. I was able to listen in on the conference calls made for the governance discussions, and was quite amazed at the strong commonality in the communities ... http://fosiki.com/blog/2008/09/08/twiki-summit-2008q3-in-berlin/