The new website gets closer, I have now converted Tom Longson (aka
Nym)'s website draft to Twiki, you can check it out here:

  http://freenetproject.org/index2.php

This will redirect you to the appropriate translation for you, if
available.  The French translation is complete, Dutch has been started
but isn't finished, someone has volunteered for the Chinese translation
but hasn't started yet, ditto for the German translation, and the
Hungarian translation has been started but not finished yet.

I have converted many of the relevant pages from the old site, but
certainly not everything, the stuff in the old Wiki still needs to be
moved over (unfortunately the syntax for TWiki is different to PHPWiki,
for example [this] is a link in PHPWiki, but [[this]] is a link in
TWiki.

Janie Mehew is also working on a different skin for the site, I plan to
make both skins available, and users can select whichever they prefer
(perhaps we can vote to decide whose gets to be the default).

For those of you that were bitching about how dumb Wiki's are to have
their own silly markup language, you will be happy to hear that TWiki
supports HTML too.  It also has great version control.  You will need to
grab a username before you can edit any of the public pages, and you
will need to ask me to give you permission to edit any of the prominent
pages (ie. all of them right now).

One concern I had was the overhead involved in rendering a Wiki page,
since TWiki seems to do a lot of permissions checking and stuff, it
might lead to trouble if we get linked off a popular news site (which
will probably happen on the release of 0.5).  I have spoken to the
Sourceforge guys and they are looking into this, and will hopefully
install modperl to alleviate the problem.  Either way, I am thinking
about creating a plain html high-bandwidth page which will give people
the basic information (ie. brief intro, download link), that we can
quickly swap-in if we experience problems.

Questions/Comments?

Ian.

-- 
Ian Clarke                                        ian at freenetproject.org
Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project    http://freenetproject.org/
Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc.           http://www.uprizer.com/
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