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