TWiki (R) - the Open Source Enterprise Wiki and Web 2.0 Application Platform
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What is TWiki?
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Welcome to TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use 
enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and 
knowledge management system. 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 or on the internet. 
Web content can be created collaboratively by using 
just a browser. 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one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content.

Major companies like British Telecom, Sun Microsystems, 
Motorola, Yahoo and SAP depend on the TWiki 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. A developers with begining level programming skills 
can develop Web2.0 Applications using server-side TWiki Plugin API. 


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
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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 
license.txt file in its entire form, thus acknowledging the 
origin of TWiki and the thousands of hours the core team and 
contributors put into creating this product.


TWiki Installation, Support
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It is important to follow the installation instructions in
INSTALL.html located in the distribution, also 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
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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,

The TWiki Developers