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Hi Twitter-fans,

Twitter-buzz from Foswiki is ahead! We just revamped our Foswiki-Twitter-user to connect better with other Foswiki-users on twitter and to give better status updates on Twitter. Basically we added a couple additional RSS-feeds via Twitterfeed. That will lead to even more traffic on our Foswiki-account at Twitter.

What we do with our twitter-account:

• We tweet every single commit in our SVN-system.
• We tweet every blog post in the official Foswiki-Weblog.
• We tweet every change on Foswiki.org’s wiki.
• We follow everybody, that follows us (via TwitterMass).
• We follow everybody, that tweets about Foswiki oder TWiki (via TwitterMass).
• We follow everybody, that tweets about “wiki” and “re”-follows us within 4 days (via TwitterMass).
• We integrate alle Foswiki-Tweets on the Foswiki.org-Homepage

If errors occur please tell us in the comments. He will be happy to help. Please note, that the Foswiki user is not based an human acitivity yet. It might be, that we have trouble with replying and adding you as a follower. But we plan to do it regularly.

What we still need:

• A decent background for our Twitter user?
• A stream of tweets on foswiki.org

Any comments or ideas how to improve that? We are looking forward to your feedback.

By the way: The growing community of Foswiki-lovers would like to warmly welcome you as a contributor for the open-source-enterprise wiki. Wanna know how? See our “How you can help” page. Why not register today on www.foswiki.org and automatically create another tweet on Twitter.

mseibert Support community, foswiki, fun, help, live, twitter

I moved an active but aging 2004 TWiki “Cairo” installation to Foswiki today, as part of a hardware upgrade. It was a lovely experience. Foswiki installed quickly and easily. I did not even need any extra plugins because all of the plugins used on the old server come standard with Foswiki (along with several others, like the WYSIWYG editor, heh heh).

Foswiki supports TWiki data files, including old “Cairo” files, so I copied the content from the old server into Foswiki. … And then I held my breath and pointed my browser at the new Foswiki.

It Just Worked.

It was also straightforward to transfer the user authentication information across to Foswiki; I simply appended the original server’s .hpasswd file to the Foswiki’s .htpasswd file – once again, It Just Worked.

It is supposed to work. This is supposed to be straightforward. And it actually is.

Hooray for Foswiki’s compatibility!

MichaelTempest Support

Foswiki offers all users a free live support over the IRC chat protocol. We have on the average about 35 community members online, that help each other with the Foswiki-development and support new users, that have questions about Foswiki.

The benefits of Foswiki’s live support over IRC

• Get answers on your Foswiki-questions in real time.
• Meet the core developers online and talk to them.
• Find out about new developments in a conversation.
• Fix problems and optimize your Foswiki configuration for free with our users.
• Meet our best developers and get in contact.
• Find out what makes the Foswiki community so special and attractive.

If you want to meet Eugen Mayer, Sven Dowideit, Olivier Raginel (Babar), Crawford Currie (CDot), Will Norris, Kenneth Lavrsen or Arthur Clemens, then you should definitely look in our IRC channel. If you refer to our IRC statistics, you will see, that we can offer a 24-hour-support.

Whenever you have a question, the community will be there for you. More than 350 users used our IRC chat during the last 3 months.

Do you want to see, what we are talking about? Check the IRC logs, that are provided by courtesy of Colas Nahaboo. You can read through more than 110701 lines of chat conversations. Take your time.

How do you start an IRC chat?

Chatting over IRC is very easy. There is a huge number of IRC software clients for your computer. But even without a software, you can easily chat with the foswiki community members over your web browser.

See our IRC help page on www.foswiki.org for more information on how to chat with us.

We are looking forward to help you online: live and for free.

mseibert Support arthurclemens, colasnahaboo, community, crawfordcurrie, eugenmayer, foswiki, help, irc, kennethlavrsen, live, olivierraginel, online, questions, Support, svendowideit, willnorris