Ahh! My bosses threatened to fire me if I didn't post this in my blog. (Just kidding!). I'm here at OSCON because MindTouch is going to officially announce the DekiWiki project and release it as an open source project! I've been working my butt off helping to tie up loose ends in a beautiful hotel room (we have a 14th floor view of Portland - I'll post pictures when I get some time).

Over the week, I'll try to post more on what we're doing, but for now, here is the press release:

On Wednesday at OSCON (booth 911), MindTouch is releasing DekiWiki - a MediaWiki fork which delivers a highly extensible, scalable and interoperable wiki. MindTouch DekiWiki is being released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), with libraries under LGPL. Built on MindTouch's Dream framework, it is a service oriented architecture (SOA) that allows distribution of both data and behavior across any device and platform, employs AJAX extensively to enrich the user experience, stores in XML, with Apache's Lucene for search indexing. DekiWiki affords flexibility in the creation of highly distributed composite applications as well as providing an unmatched off-the-shelf collaborative space for business and organizations of all sizes. Stay tuned to www.opengarden.org for more details...

Look at the app, dig into the code, and see for yourself why this is going to cause fireworks.

You'll be able to get the builds off of OpenGarden on Wednesday ...

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One thing I noticed: The sun is great for getting some strength ... I was feeling really burnt out midday, but I stepped outside on the balcony for a few minutes and felt so recharged! Then I decided to sit out there for like 10 minutes longer and I felt sleepy... a balance must be found!