Foswiki Collaboration Platform ============================== What is Foswiki? ---------------- Foswiki is a flexible and powerful web-based collaboration platform that allows you to run a dynamic intranet site, a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, an issue tracking system and many other groupware application. Foswiki looks and feels like a normal intranet or Web site. Users can freely change or create content from any Web browser, without requiring special browser plugins. Major companies depend on the Foswiki platform to increase the productivity of their engineering teams. Features include automatic link generation, full text search, authorization based on groups, Web form handling, email notification of changes, file attachments to Web pages, revision control of pages and attachments, and more. The server-side Foswiki Plugins API provides developers with a simple way to build new groupware applications. The GPLed Foswiki software and hundreds of Plugins can be downloaded from the Foswiki.org web site, http://foswiki.org/. Foswiki Distribution and License -------------------------------- Foswiki is open source software and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. You can request the latest version of Foswiki from http://foswiki.org/. The LICENSE file, located in the root of the Foswiki distribution package, shows your rights and duties on how to use, redistribute and/or modify it. We would appreciate if redistributions of Foswiki and its clones retain the license.txt file in its entire form, thus acknowledging the origin of Foswiki and the thousands of hours the core team and contributors put into creating this product. Foswiki Installation, Support ----------------------------- It is important to follow the installation instructions in INSTALL.html located in the distribution. Foswiki is free software and does not include any support. There is a site support questions, run by Foswiki users for Foswiki users. Visit http://foswiki.org/Support if you have any installation questions or questions about Foswiki deployment; please do not contact the developers directly. You can also get support from fellow users on the IRC channel #foswiki, visit http://irclogs.foswiki.org/ for a web based IRC client. Foswiki News, Development and Deployment ---------------------------------------- You can always find out the latest news at the Foswiki home page at http://foswiki.org/. The place to collaborate on further Foswiki development is at http://foswiki.org/. Good luck with your collaboration effort and with Foswiki. Best regards, The Foswiki Developers