TWiki (TM) - A Web Based Collaboration Platform
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What is TWiki?
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TWiki is a flexible and powerful web-based collaboration 
platform that allows you to run a dynamic intranet site, a 
project development space, a document management system, a 
knowledge base, an issue tracking system and many other 
groupware application. TWiki looks and feels like a normal 
intranet or Web site. Users can freely change or create 
content from any Web browser, without requiring special 
browser plugins. 

Major companies like British Telecom, Sun Microsystems, 
Motorola and SAP depend on the TWiki platform to increase 
the productivity of their engineering teams. 

Features include automatic link generation, full text 
search, authorization based on groups, Web form handling, 
email notification of changes, file attachments to Web 
pages, revision control of pages and attachments, and 
more. The server-side TWiki Plugins API provides developers 
with a simple way to build new groupware applications. 

The GPLed TWiki software and over 100 Plugins can be 
downloaded from the TWiki.org web site, http://TWiki.org/.


TWiki Distribution and License
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TWiki is open source software and is distributed under the 
terms of the GNU General Public License. You can request 
the latest version of TWiki from http://TWiki.org/ .

The LICENSE file, located in the root of the TWiki 
distribution package, shows your rights and duties on how to 
use, redistribute and/or modify it. We would appreciate if 
redistributions of TWiki and its clones retain the 
license.txt file in its entire form, thus acknowledging the 
origin of TWiki and the thousands of hours the core team and 
contributors put into creating this product.


TWiki Installation, Support
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It is important to follow the installation instructions in
TWikiDocumentation.html located in the distribution, also at
http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiDocumentation

Important note: Once you installed TWiki on your own system, 
make sure to add yourself to the list of TWikiInstallations 
at http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiInstallations . 
This helps in getting more exposure --> attracts more 
developers --> results in a better product.

TWiki is free software and does not include any support. There
is a TWiki web for support questions, run by TWiki users for
TWiki users. Visit http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/ if
you have any installation questions or questions about TWiki
deployment; please do not contact the developers directly.


TWiki News, Development and Deployment
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You can always find out the latest news at the TWiki home 
page at http://TWiki.org/ .

The place to collaborate on further TWiki development is at
http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/ . ReadmeFirst tells you 
how to collaborate. Subscribe in WebNotify to stay up to 
date on latest development issues.

Good luck with your collaboration effort and with TWiki.
Happy collaboration and twiki'ing.

Best regards,

The TWiki Developers
