TWiki (R) - the Open Source Enterprise Wiki and Web Application Platform ======================================================================== What is TWiki? -------------- Welcome to TWiki, a powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform, and web application platform. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet, extranet or the Internet. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with plugins. TWiki fosters information flow within an organization, lets distributed teams work together seamlessly and productively, and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content. TWiki has been downloaded over 500,000 times and is used daily by millions of people in over 100 countries. Some larger deployments have several 100,000 pages and over 10,000 users. TWiki is developed by an active open source community on http://twiki.org. Major companies such as Amazon.com, AMD, British Telecom, IBM, Oracle, Motorola, SAP and many others depend on the TWiki platform to increase the productivity of their teams. The GPLed TWiki software and over hundreds of Plugins can be downloaded from the TWiki.org web site, http://TWiki.org/. TWiki Distribution and License ------------------------------ TWiki is open source software and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. You can request the latest version of TWiki from http://TWiki.org/ . The LICENSE file, located in the root of the TWiki distribution package, shows your rights and duties on how to use, redistribute and/or modify it. We would appreciate if redistributions of TWiki and its clones retain the AUTHORS, COPYING, COPYRIGHT and LICENSE files in their entire form, thus acknowledging the origin of TWiki and the tens of thousands of hours contributors put into creating this product. TWiki Installation, Support --------------------------- It is important to follow the installation instructions at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiInstallationGuide Important note: Once you installed TWiki on your own system, make sure to add yourself to the list of TWikiInstallations at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiInstallation . This helps in getting more exposure --> attracts more developers --> results in a better product. TWiki is free software and does not include any support. There is a TWiki web for support questions, run by TWiki users for TWiki users. Visit http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/WebHome if you have any installation questions or questions about TWiki deployment; please do not contact the developers directly. TWiki News, Development and Deployment -------------------------------------- You can always find out the latest news at the TWiki home page at http://twiki.org/ . The place to collaborate on further TWiki development is at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WebHome . ReadmeFirst tells you how to collaborate. Subscribe in WebNotify to stay up to date on latest development issues. Good luck with your collaboration effort and with TWiki. Happy collaboration and twiki'ing. Best regards, Peter Thoeny and TWiki Contributors