Official Foswiki Weblog

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!

mseibert Support community, crawford currie, crawfordcurrie, foswiki, help, irc, live, Support, twitter

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