Re: SWiK-Source released

["Lee Tambiah" <l_tambiah linuxmail org>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Waugh" <jdub perkypants org>
> To: "GNOME Marketing" <marketing-list gnome org>
> Subject: SWiK-Source released
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:19:04 +1000
> 
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Datapoint for a possible projects/applist/doapsite: SWiK-Source, the engine
> behind swik.net (which is roughly an application wiki for FLOSS projects)
> has been released under GPLv2. It's PHP/MySQL with some Java backend stuff
> (that could probably be replaced).
> 
> Kind of interesting. With some doap integration, it might form a useful
> *data driven* 'projects' site. I dunno. I'm not wildly convinced we need
> something like this of our own, but it might be useful, particularly if its
> main task was aggregating doap.
> 
> Check it out, anyway:
> 
>    http://swik.net/User:alex/Alex+Bosworth's+Weblog/Announcing+SWiK-Source/lqvq
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Jeff

I think the Java backend would have been a problem, but as Sun are also open sourcing the Java Environment (which is happening as wer speak) it will really be truly open in time to come.

P.S 

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