Wikidot Platform Released as Open Source under Affero GPLv3 license

Lewes, Delaware (PRWEB) — Wikidot Inc., developer of the popular Wikidot.com platform has freed the code for its flagship product under the new GNU Affero General Public License version 3. The company has freed both its current Wikidot product, and the new Wikidot/2.0 product under development.

Wikidot Inc. founder and General Manager Michal Frackowiak explains, “our users want access to the code, and we want our users to get involved in the project. We believe that freeing our software is great for our community, and great for our business.” The Affero license gives users the right to modify, share, and even resell improvements to the code. Michal explains, “it’s like the GPLv3 but also requires service providers who extend our Wikidot code to share their improvements”.

Wikidot.com is growing popular with smart users who use its wiki functionality to build creative sites, quickly. Pieter Hintjens, founder of iMatix Corporation and CEO of Wikidot Inc., explains, “it used to take weeks to build a website. With Wikidot my team can make new rich sites in a matter of hours. It’s all about doing more with less.”

Through pure word-of-mouth, Wikidot now ranks as one of the most popular wikifarms, and is growing at the rate of 500 users a day. Michal Frackowiak concludes, “we deliver a quality product and a very reliable service. Our users are our best sales people.”

Software is available free of charge to everyone at wikidot.org.

Collaboration and ECM

The following question was recently posted on LinkedIn:

What is “Collaboration” and how is it defined relative to “Content Management” or Enterprise Content Management”? Secondarily what are the core components of “Collaboration”?

My answer:

…Enterprise content management is concerned with the efficient management of content with content being defined as any information in any form that is valuable to the enterprise. When an instant messaging session discusses business matters or an email defines policy it becomes enterprise content. Before the current technology of collaboration there were methods of documenting collaboration, such as meeting minutes, which are certainly enterprise records. I also agree that collaboration in it’s truest sense is a social phenomenon. The American Heritage Dictionary defines collaboration as “To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.”. The tools we use today to document collaboration are many. It is when the collaboration process produces enterprise content that it becomes a concern of ECM. Just as document capture via a scanner becomes a vital part of an ECM system, so email, IM, web forms, and white board sessions become part of an ECM system.