Alex Bosworth has announced an interesting social networking/wiki project called Swik.
A common complain about Open Source is that it's hard to find out how to make it work. I don't really think this makes sense: if Open Source has any strength, it's strength in numbers, and if there are many other people figuring out how to use software, they should be able to pass that knowledge along to everyone else.
Unfortunately, life is not always that easy for users of Open Source yet. That's why SourceLabs is developing Swik, a web service for letting information about Open Source software flow from user to user, in a free and open way.
Swik is a wiki for any open source project. It's a set of CreativeCommons pages that lets anyone share tips, links, definitions or instructions.
Sounds promising. I'm already doing enough documentation in with my current projects load, but potentially having a respository tech how-to akin to Wikipedia is really quite appealing if it works.
<p>Alex Bosworth has <a href="http://sourcelabs.com/ajb/archives/2005/06/swik.html">announced</a> an interesting social networking/wiki project called Swik.</p>
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<p>A common complain about Open Source is that it's hard to find out how to make it work. I don't really think this makes sense: if Open Source has any strength, it's strength in numbers, and if there are many other people figuring out how to use software, they should be able to pass that knowledge along to everyone else.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, life is not always that easy for users of Open Source yet. That's why SourceLabs is developing Swik, a web service for letting information about Open Source software flow from user to user, in a free and open way.</p>
<p>Swik is a wiki for any open source project. It's a set of <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CreativeCommons</a> pages that lets anyone share tips, links, definitions or instructions.</p>
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<p>Sounds promising. I'm already doing enough documentation in with my current projects load, but potentially having a respository tech how-to akin to Wikipedia is really quite appealing if it works.</p>
