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The Foswiki community summit last year was a big success. A lot of participants founded an association and had a lot of fun. Some of them talked to me on the camera. Hear and see what they had to say about foswiki:

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The Foswiki community loves Kenneth Larvsen for releasing the next Foswiki version 1.0.7 last Monday with the following email:

Release of Foswiki version 1.0.7, 20 Sep 2009

On behalf of the entire Foswiki community I can proudly announce the
release of the Foswiki patch release 1.0.7

Foswiki 1.0.7 is available for download at the following locations

* Foswiki web site: http://foswiki.org/Download

Since the January release of 1.0.0 more than 190 additional bugs have
been fixed.

Foswiki 1.0.7 was built 20 Sep 2009. It is a patch release with more
than 190 bug fixes relative to 1.0.0 and some enhancements. This release
fixes some serious issues introduced by the CSRF fix and the redirect
cache fix in 1.0.6. Major enhancement that also fixes many annoying
editor bugs is the upgrade of the !Tiny MCE editor to version 3.2.2.

It is highly recommended to upgrade your Foswiki to 1.0.7.

You can read the full email here.

• Installers for Windows and Mac are already available on the download page just as other downloads.

Important Changes since Foswiki 1.0.6

• The Wysiwyg editor has been upgraded to using Tiny MCE editor version 3.2.2 which solves many editor related bugs. The pickaxe icon has been replaced by a “Wiki Text” button as the pickaxe was hard to guess the function of. And the editor now has a full screen editing feature. This is the biggest and most important change in that release, that you will find in Foswiki 1.0.7. A big thank you goes to Crawford Currie for making this possible.
• Several bugs fixed related to the Cross-Site Request Forgery feature.
• Cross-Site Request Forgery feature has been enhanced to also protect against unwanted attachment of files
• TablePlugin sorts numbers and dates better
• EditTablePlugin handles SpreadSheetPlugin in footer rows correctly
• Fixed a problem where Windows installations of Foswiki would create new users with non-working passwords
• “Managing webs” feature redesigned for better usability

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When I heard Crawford Currie say

“The beauty of open source software is choice.”

I finally understood, why it is not that bad, that installing and configuring Foswiki sometimes seems hard for novices. But as you can choose between so much features and directions in Foswiki communication and guidance is important for new users. We offer preconfigured virtual machines for a first test in our download section. But as soon as you natively install Foswiki on your server you want to talk to somebody.

Foswiki offers multiple approaches to get help with the software:

1. You can use our live Chat over IRC. You do not need any technical skills. Chatting works over the browser.
2. You can call one of our skilled consultants, who will walk you through the whole wiki project with ease. These services are provided for money in most cases.
3. You can ask a question over Twitter to our user @foswiki.
4. Or you can send us an email and get your answer via mail.

Contact us via email through our Mailing lists

This mail contact over our Foswiki mailing lists on SourceForge should be the main issue of this blog post. If you send an email to foswiki-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net it will be forwarded to all active list members and they will discuss it with you. It is a public discussion list.

At http://n2.nabble.com/Foswiki-f2555947.html you can find a web based forum application for our Foswiki-mailing list, that also gives access to this mailing list. You can use the web front end or subscribe to a RSS feed for new threads or a RSS feed for new messages.

Add your picture to the Nabble-online forum now!

If you are a regular poster on the mailing list, please help new Foswiki users to get a better impression of our community by providing your own picture in the Nabble-forum-software by registering there. Thank you!

And if you are new to Foswiki:

Do not forget, that we care about you and your problems. Choose any channel and ask whatever you want. We will help you!

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It is of great pleasure to announce, that in the current code repository, that can be tested at http://trunk.foswiki.org by community members, one can use the current version of TinyMCE 3.2.2.

Crawford Currie says in a message to the community:

This was a major upgrade, as it required recoding of all the Foswiki-specific code due to extensive API changes in TinyMCE. Hopefully this new version of Tiny MCE will fix some of the old niggles. However it will not be in Foswiki 1.0.4.

Please note, that the Foswiki community will test the new editor thoroughly before adding the feature to the official core code. Fosiwiki 1.0.4 will be released within the next days. Please do not expect this feature to be part of that release.

What are the benefits for Foswiki?

• You will be able to use an even more mature WYSIWYG-editor in your Foswiki.
• It will reduce errors and offer some more features. Please refer to the TinyMCE-Homepage for more info about the latest features.
• You will be able to integrate the powerful TinyMCE-Plugins like MCImageManager and MCFileManager.
• A lot of other additional TinyMCE-Plugins will be compatible with your Foswiki-editor in the future.

What can you do with it now?

• Help us to test the new feature, by using trunk.foswiki.org instead of www.foswiki.org for browsing through our website. You might need to get a registered foswiki user to edit pages.
• You can also test the implementation in your own foswiki, that you should install from trunk.

The Foswiki community says: “Thank you for your contribution, Crawford!”

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