RE: [Amw-developers] Welcome to FreeLy AMW developersand contributorsmailing list

[Peleg Michaeli]

Hehe...

First of all, FREEUS (I sent you the address) is in English.
Secondly, learn Hebrew... :-)

And finally - it has a good internationalization basis; it'll be VERY easy
to translate it (the engine, not the contents) to English/german/etc.

Peleg.

-----Original Message-----
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Frederik E.
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 7:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [Amw-developers] Welcome to FreeLy AMW developersand
contributorsmailing list

Brilliant, it is all in Hebrew! :(



Peleg Michaeli schrieb:
> FreeLy PPS, which can be seen working in www.freeall.org.
>
> It is a system of personal pages - my personal page is here:
> www.freeall.org/peleg, for example. You can also see one that is in
English
> here: www.freeall.org/freeus, but this one is not maintained, and has a
few
> bugs related to the translations. (Stav wrote it)
>
> Peleg.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
> Frederik E.
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 10:19 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Amw-developers] Welcome to FreeLy AMW developers and
> contributorsmailing list
>
> Which project is already developed?
>
> Peleg Michaeli schrieb:
>   
>> Hello dear friends! :-)
>>
>> This is a welcome mail to our new mailing list about FreeLy AMW.
>>
>> This list will be in English because we ALREADY HAVE English speakers
>>     
> among
>   
>> us. I also prefer that we will write in this list only in pure text (not
>> HTML mails) because it is easier to archive it.
>>
>> In short: FreeLy is a GROUP of free and open source web projects, that a
>>     
> few
>   
>> of them are already developed (actually: one of them), and more are
>>     
> planned.
>   
>> I will send another mail about the description of each project, but here
>>     
> is
>   
>> a very short list:
>> * FreeLy AMW: this project; AMW stands for Ajax Micro-Wiki, which suppose
>>     
> to
>   
>> be an extra-light wiki for small groups, with collaborative studying
>> intentions, and more special features.
>> * FreeLy PPS: the engine that the site www.freeall.org runs on; PPS
stands
>> for a personal pages system - just like a blog, but without a timeline,
so
>> it fits better for publishing of artwork, articles, poems, etc.
>> * FreeLy DBM: A database management tool, good for small organizations,
>>     
> and
>   
>> mean to have a flexible but easy administration.
>> * FreeLy VSF: VSF stands for very simple forum - a very simple text
>>     
> messages
>   
>> board, light and easy to control/administrate.
>>
>> And the last one will be "FreeLy Integrator" - a tool that suppose to
>> integrate all of these projects together, somehow.
>>
>> --
>>
>> A few words about licensing:
>> ALL of the original code and/or documents that we write in those projects
>>     
> is
>   
>> released to PUBLIC DOMAIN; that means that everyone will be able to use
it
>> for ANY purpose (including selling it or killing with it); but: there are
>> few "dependencies", that is, 3rd party software or code snippets that we
>> include in this project, that are licensed under the LGPL (Lesser General
>> Public License) which a bit less free, but still is very free.
>> All of the above mean that this project IS copyrighted, but the copyright
>> mean almost nothing, because any word that WE add, is completely free,
and
>> that's what we actually wanted.
>>
>> For more about this issue I would recommend you to read in Wikipedia,
>>     
> and/or
>   
>> wait for a mail about this issue, with the complete license (I will
attach
>> it).
>>
>> --
>>
>> Before I go, I will write another paragraph or two about a very important
>> question: WHY.
>> I mean: why are we doing it? (Or at least: why I am doing it...)
>>
>> Well: we program for fun, and this is the most important aspect of it;
but
>> it is not the only aspect.
>> We also program in order to SHARE - share our art with the world. In this
>> aspect, there is a special importance to the uniqueness of our work; and
>> indeed, we tried to plan a group of free applications which ARE unique,
>>     
> each
>   
>> in its own way.
>> We don't try to pose competition - we try to add to the existing pool of
>> applications.
>> There are more reasons: as Amit said, I also have a craving for building
a
>> community (not only programmers!) around a project, whatever kind of
>>     
> project
>   
>> it'll be. The feeling of common purpose, that come from common minds and
>> common feelings is good.
>> And last reason is my "living" - I work with computers, and this is my
way
>> to earn a living, and to support myself and my community/commune. FREE
>> projects (for the English speakers: free as in free speech, and not free
>>     
> as
>   
>> in free beer) can be profitable (surprising?), though "profit" is not the
>> right word - I relate "profit" with "violence", so maybe we can stay with
>> "living"... anyway, FREE projects can help make a living: by producing a
>> good product, we can GIVE it away (not selling it), but charge for
>>     
> SERVICE.
>   
>> As a "rule", we always prefer it (at least in FreeAll Web Guild) - to
sell
>> services and not products (though: each one of you can sell this product,
>>     
> if
>   
>> he like - but the project will still be available for free forever).
>>
>> So: there are more reasons, but that's for a start.
>>
>> This mail was not even about the AMW project... the next mail will be
>>     
> about
>   
>> it, I promise.
>>
>> Pay attention:
>> Replying to this mail will send it TO THE LIST, and NOT ONLY TO ME. Some
>> people think that this is a bad habit (I made it work like that), but I
>> think that in such very-specific lists, it is better. Moreover: all of
the
>> mails that appear in this list are archived, and are completely public
and
>> accessible (I will send you the URL sometime soon).
>>
>> If you want to send private mails, just forward this message instead of
>> replying to it.
>>
>> A different mail will also come about some technical issues and first
>> requests; in the meanwhile, if you want to unsubscribe from this list, or
>> change your preferences, just let me know.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peleg.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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