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Issue #10: New Mindquarry 1.2beta includes Talk component

Posted over 2 years ago by ordnas

Hello,

Welcome to the 10th issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and thank you for subscribing. Here's what's new in the Mindquarry universe:

Release of Mindquarry 1.2betaWith the latest release of Mindquarry 1.2beta ... [More] , teams can now communicate more efficiently using the Talk component. The new functionality allows to discuss via email, yet have all conversations archived within Mindquarry and accessible within a Web browser. Additionally, team members can also contribute to a discussion using the forum-like Web interface.

Mindquarry 1.2beta also ships with a new Java-based client which runs on Windows, Linux as well as Mac. The client includes major bug fixes, especially when it comes to conflict management of synchronized files.

For a detailed overview of new features and various bug fixes, please see the issue tracker for Mindquarry 1.2beta.

You can download Mindquarry 1.2beta for free.

Community-driven development of MindquarryThe company Mindquarry will cease to exist as of today, October 31st 2007. We welcome everyone who would like to contribute to further development of Mindquarry as a community-driven Open Source project. The core developers of Mindquarry will assist you wherever they can. Please write to info@mindquarry.com or leave a note in the forum.

 

That's it for the final issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter. We are deeply thankful to everyone who supported us along the way!

Mindquarry team [Less]

Issue #9: Mindquarry's commercial offerings end

Posted over 2 years ago by ordnas

Hello,

Welcome to the 9th issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and thank you for subscribing. Here's what's new in the Mindquarry universe:

Discontinuing commercial offerings Much to our regret, we must inform you that ... [More] the company Mindquarry will stop providing commercial services and products. We could not convince our investor to keep financing our endeavour.

The Mindquarry GO and Mindquarry PRO products will be discontinued as of today. Our Open Source product will remain publicly available (see below for more information). To those with a Mindquarry GO Beta account, we now offer the possibility to migrate their data to the Open Source version of Mindquarry. This means that they can install Mindquarry themselves and use existing data from their Mindquarry GO Beta instance. Please write to support@mindquarry.com if you want us to extract your data from Mindquarry GO Beta to send it to you.

Keeping our Open Source software aliveOur developers team is currently working on finishing the Mindquarry 1.2beta release, which will be available around end of October. Beginning with 1.2beta, Mindquarry source code will be hosted on Sourceforge as well as the mindquarry.com Web site. Hence, our software as well as all necessary information such as installation documentation and forum discussions will still be available. Further details and links will be available in the next and probably final Mindquarry community newsletter.

AcknowledgementsFirst of all, we would like to thank our customers and our developers community for their support. Our customers helped us to continually improve our product based on their feedback and their kind appreciation for our work was our greatest source of motivation. Special thanks go to those numerous community members who tried out Mindquarry and helped us with bug reports and feature requests. Some of them also contributed code.

Furthermore, our thanks go to Hasso Plattner Ventures for their seed investment, which did not carry us as far as we wished, but at least gave us the chance to build a visible company and product in the collaborative software market space.

Last but not least, we would like to thank ourselves for a great and dedicated team!

Questions and feedbackWe are happy to answer your questions about Mindquarry's situation in the forum and also welcome any comments there.

That's it for today's issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and we hope you enjoyed yourself. See you in the Mindquarry universe!

Mindquarry team [Less]

Issue #8: Early Bird Partner Opportunity

Posted over 2 years ago by ordnas

Hello!

Welcome to the 8th issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and thank you for subscribing. Here's what's new in the Mindquarry universe:

TIP: You can read this newsletter online and subscribe to it via RSS ... [More] feed.

Early bird partner opportunityWe invite system integrators world-wide who can provide project-related support and services, such as consulting, integration, migration, maintenance, for our enterprise-grade product Mindquarry PRO. You can become a Mindquarry Authorized Partner by submitting one case study within 2007 and profit from:

Discounts up to 50%Exclusive sales and marketing support1 year partnershipFind more information on our Website on how to apply for Mindquarry Partnership.

Interview by Red HerringA Red Herring Top 100 Europe winner, Mindquarry has been interviewed by redherring.tv. Watch our CEO Stephan Voigt explain our business strategy in the Mindquarry interview by Red Herring.

Progress towards Mindquarry 1.2betaCurrent work on the Mindquarry Collaboration Server focuses on usability improvements and fixing bugs, e.g. caching issues, facetted search and the Talk component. Furthermore the desktop client synchronization will be redesigned in order to provide a better user experience and to be able to react properly on conflicting file versions.

Case studies and testimonials available onlineWe set up a new are on our Web site where Mindquarry users tell us about their use case scenario and what they like about Mindquarry. Find more information at the new Mindquarry Customers area and feel free to tell us about your Mindquarry usage scenario.

Winner of iPod Shuffle: "Unibicate" case studyFor those submitting their Mindquarry case study before August 8th, we raffled one iPod Shuffle. The winner is Unibicate. The exciting moment when Yvonne Prill, Mindquarry's assistant to the CEO, picked the winner has been captured in pictures.

Benedikt Meuthrath new committerUnanimously, Benedikt Meuthrath (BeneM) has been invited as a committer. He already contributed regularly to Mindquarry software development before and we are happy to have him now commit directly to our code repository. Thank you for the good work so far Benedikt and we look forward to more coming in from you!

That's it for today's issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and we hope you enjoyed yourself. See you in the Mindquarry universe!

Mindquarry team [Less]

Issue #7: Mindquarry PRO Launched

Posted over 2 years ago by ordnas

Hello!

Welcome to the 7th issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and thank you for subscribing. Here's what's new in the Mindquarry universe:

TIP: You can read this newsletter online and subscribe to it via RSS feed. ... [More]

Mindquarry PRO launched
Our new product 'Mindquarry PRO' is perfectly suited for those who want to use Mindquarry within their corporate Intranet relying on professional support and auxilliary tools for automated updates and upgrades as well as monitoring.

Find more information at http://www.mindquarry.com/pro. We also invite you to provide feedback about Mindquarry PRO.

Progress towards Mindquarry 1.2beta
Mindquarry 1.2 will contain the new Talk component, which seamlessly integrates email and forum discussion. This functionality has reached a mature level in the Mindquarry development code.

Additionally, faceted search has been added to the Tasks component for better management of a team's todo list.

Mindquarry 1.2 will ship with a multilingual user interface. A German translation has been included by Mindquarry and a Polish one has been contributed by community member Kamil Maciejewski. Contributions for Catalan and Spanish are also under way. Check out the forum thread about UI translations if you'd like to contribute as well.

Those with a private beta account for Mindquarry GO can already try out the new features of Mindquarry 1.2. All others need to wait a bit more until Mindquarry 1.2beta is available for download - the release date is not yet set.

Feature requests for Mindquary 1.3
The focus of Mindquarry 1.3 lies on user and permission management. Before we start implementing new functionality, we would like to hear your feature ideas for Mindquarry 1.3.

Reminder: Submit a case study and win an iPod (until Aug 8th)
Invitation is still open to submit a case study until August 8th to win an iPod Shuffle. That's only 5 more days! Secure your chance of winning and tell us how you use Mindquarry.

Get your user account at www.mindquarry.com
You can from now on register an account at our Web site and engage with Mindquarry staff and community. Once logged in, you can comment to articles and conveniently manage your newsletter subscriptions. We plan to add further goodies to make www.mindquarry.com an interactive place for our community.

New article: Elements of Collaboration
Lars Trieloff wrote an article entitled Elements of Collaboration, providing an overview about current collaboration techniques and technologies in form of a periodic table to show how better collaboration can lead to improved workflows and higher productivity.

Feel free to create an account and comment to the article.

1st anniversary barbecue
We forgot to tell about the nice barbecue taking place to celebrate the 1st anniversary of Mindquarry's existance in the previous newsletter. Watch unforgettable anniversary celebration pictures and become hungry.

That's it for today's issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and we hope you enjoyed yourself. See you in the Mindquarry universe!

Mindquarry team [Less]

Issue #6: Win an iPod: Submit a Case Study

Posted over 2 years ago by ordnas

Hello!

Welcome to the 6th issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and thank you for subscribing. Here's what's new in the Mindquarry universe:

TIP: You can read this newsletter online and subscribe to it via RSS ... [More] feed.

Win an iPod: Submit a case study before August 8th
Tell us before August 8th about how you or a customer of yours uses Mindquarry and win an iPod shuffle. All you need to do is to submit a case study.

Video interview with Mindquarry founders
Mindquarry is celebrating its first anniversary. The company was founded July 21st 2006. VP Marketing Sandro Groganz recorded a video interview with the three founders, where they answer the following questions:

What are your goals with Mindquarry?
How did you three get to know each other?
Why did you decide to use an Open Source license?
What was your greatest moment in the past year?
What are your plans for the upcoming year?

Watch the video interview with the Mindquarry founders on YouTube.

Interview with Lars Trieloff, COO and Co-Founder on SourceKibitzer
Though Open Source is not a religion for him, a creator of Mindquarry project Lars Trieloff really believes that all kind of organizations can learn from the collaborating in the OSS way and that in ten years OSS will be the predominant business model on the software market.

Read the full interview with Lars Trieloff at SourceKibitzer. The interview spawn a discussion on TheServerSide.com.

That's it for today's issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and we hope you enjoyed yourself. See you in the Mindquarry universe!

Mindquarry Team [Less]

Issue #5: Mindquarry 1.1.2 released

Posted over 2 years ago by ordnas

Hello!

Welcome to the 5th issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and thank you for subscribing. Here's what's new in the Mindquarry universe:

TIP: You can read this newsletter online and subscribe to it via RSS ... [More] feed.

Mindquarry 1.1.2 released
Our latest stable release contains bug fixes, especially removing a showstopper appearant in the previous 1.1.1 release, which caused problems in a Windows installation of Mindquarry Server. Mindquarry 1.1.2 also ships with minor feature enhancements. Find more details in the Changelog. You can download Mindquarry 1.1.2 for free.

Submit a case study

Do you use Mindquarry in your organization?
Do you intend to do so?
Did you install Mindquarry for someone else who is using it?

Please tell us about it and submit a case study.

Screencast and YouTube channel
You can now watch a screencast of Mindquarry, highlighting the main features such as file sharing, Wiki, tasks management and the activity timeline. Up-to-now, the screencast has more than 1000 views already.

We also set up a Mindquarry YouTube channel where we plan to publish more videos. We also welcome videos from our community about Mindquarry and will be happy to add it to the channel. BTW: You can subscribe to the channel to automatically stay informed about new videos.

Coverage by top-ranked Weblogs
Mindquarry is getting more and more attention by the blogosphere. For example, DownloadSquad wrote a piece Collaborating Online with Mindquarry. DownloadSquad is one of the 100 most popular Weblogs on this planet. On del.icio.us, we maintain a list of all blog coverage about Mindquarry.

New article: High Performance Collaboration with Mindquarry
Lars Trieloff, COO and Co-founder and Sandro Groganz, VP Marketing, jointly published an article entitled High Performance Collaboration with Mindquarry. The article spawned a fruitful discussion in the Mindquarry Forum about "freefrom collaboration" and "emerging collaboration patterns", triggered by community member Dmitri Popov. This discussion inspired Lars to create some slides and a blog entry on What is Freeform Collaboration?

That's it for today's issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and we hope you enjoyed yourself. See you in the Mindquarry universe!

Mindquarry Team [Less]

Issue #4: Mindquarry GO launched and 1.1.1 released

Posted over 2 years ago by ordnas

Hello!

Welcome to the 4th issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and thank you for subscribing. Here's what's new in the Mindquarry universe:

TIP: You can read this newsletter online and subscribe to it via RSS ... [More] feed.

Mindquarry GO launched
We made the hosted version of Mindquarry - labeled Mindquarry GO - available to beta testers. Everyone can apply for 333 beta tester accounts, which include:

File sharing, Wiki editing, tasks management at no cost
Unlimited number of teams, users, tasks, Wiki pages
100GB of file storage space

Depending on the viability of the applicant's use case, Mindquarry will grant access to Mindquarry GO for 3 months for free. In return, we ask beta users for feedback to improve the hosted service before it is being launched as a paid Software as a Service offer.

Visit http://www.mindquarry.com/go for more information.

Mindquarry 1.1.1 released
Today, Mindquarry 1.1.1 has been released. It ships with various bug fixes as well as usability improvements, such as:

Better display of errors in forms and hints on what to enter
More user friendly error pages
Paging in task list
Password recovery via Email
Using Email address for login

Chief Architect and co-founder Alexander Klimetschek provides more details with screenshots in his blog entry Usability Improvements in Mindquarry 1.1.1. All 43 bug fixes are listed in the changelog. Mindquarry 1.1.1 is available for free download.

Progress towards 1.2beta
Now that 1.1.1 is out, our developers started working on the 1.2beta release, which will include the much requested Talks component for team conversation. It will contain the following features:

All email conversation of a team can be viewed online, just like a threaded discussion in a forum
Conversations are identified by email subjects and specific email addresses
Team members can subscribe to/unsubscribe from a conversation (per email, Web interface or RSS)
Team members can reply via Web form or email
Team members can create new conversations (i.e. use a new email subject)
Forward emails with attachments to have the files automagically saved in a team's workspace

We plan to release Mindquarry 1.2beta in about 2 weeks. If you would like to get some details, we are happy to answer any questions in the Mindquarry forum.

10,000 downloads
Last week we celebrated over 10,000 downloads of Mindquarry since it first got released. Mindquarry Server accounts for 90% of downloads, Mindquarry Client for 10%. There are twice as many Windows downloads for Mindquarry Server as for Linux.

Documentation integrated in Web site
All Mindquarry user and developer manuals have been integrated into the Mindquarry Web site at http://www.mindquarry.com/community/documentation.

Collection of presentation slide
We started to provide the slides from presentations by Mindquarry online.

Dmitri Popov's documentation
Community member Dmitri Popov started to work on a comprehensive documentation for users as well as developers which complements the official documentation provided by Mindquarry.

Wikipedia article about Mindquarry
Dmitri also started to work on a Wikipedia article about Mindquarry. Join in and help him extend this article. You can coordinate with him in the respective forum thread.

Follow the red line
CEO Stephan Voigt as well as COO and co-founder Lars Trieloff attended Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, USA. Before the event started, they found some time for sightseeing and followed the red line to discover the city. The event was hugely successful for Mindquarry - maybe Stephan and Lars repainted the red line to lead directly to the Mindquarry booth? Check out Stephan's photos on Flickr for evidence.

 

That's it for today's issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and we hope you enjoyed yourself. See you in the Mindquarry universe!

Mindquarry Team [Less]

Issue #3: Release of 1.1 Stable

Posted over 3 years ago by ordnas

Ahoy!

Welcome to the 3rd issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and thank you for subscribing. Here's a what's new in the Mindquarry universe:

Mindquarry 1.1 stable is now available

Oh yes, the new stable version ... [More] of our software has finally arrived and ships with some great improvements:

The ‘time machine’ activity timeline allows teams to view older versions of files, Wiki pages and tasks as a first step towards an ultimate undo/redo for all team content.
The Interlink conveniently links to all files, tasks or other Wiki pages from within the Wiki. The link window also contains a new search option to find items to interlink.
Team partners can insert tables and images into Wiki pages as easily as in office documents, allowing better visualization and structuring of ideas and new concepts.
Easy Tasks and Files Manager allow users to work with Mindquarry online or offline using a Mac, Windows or Linux operating system. The programs can synchronizes all files and tasks as soon as the user is back online.
The intuitive graphical user interface clearly separates list views from item views, expediting work productivity.

Mindquarry is now available for free download. For more information about the Mindquarry 1.1 release, including new features, downloads, online demo, upgrade instructions, please go to www.mindquarry.com/1.1.

New Web site design
For the 1.1 release, our corporate presence in cyberspace got a virtual makeover. The new design has been created by our COO and co-founder Lars Trieloff. Check out www.mindquarry.com and bash or praise us in the forum www.mindquarry.com/forum.

Overview of Mindquarry features
We just added a page to our Web site summing up all the fantastic features in Mindquarry. This information will be continuously updated to highlight new and cool functionality. Please visit www.mindquarry.com/products/features.

What’s so friggin' great about Mindquarry?
... well, that's the question raised in a blogger review of Mindquarry's 1.1beta release by opensourcetutor.com. The response is as follows: "What I will say, is that despite it’s errors and despite it’s beta version, It’s still what I would call a ‘killer app’."

Now that 1.1 stable just got released - does that make Mindquarry even more friggin' great?

Enterprise 2.0 Conference, June 18-21
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference, from the co-producers of the Web 2.0 Summit, is the first, and only, conference about how smart businesses are leveraging new tools and technologies, hand in hand with culture and processes, to increase innovation, productivity and agility.

Meet Lars Trieloff and our CEO Stephan Voigt at booth #29 and attend Stephan's presentation The Business of Collaboration at June 19th, 17:25.

Jazoon07, June 23-26
Mindquarry's Senior Developer Daniel Naber will speak at Jazoon07, the international conference on Java technology in Zurich, Switzerland. His presentation is entitled Apache Lucene: Searching the Web and Everything Else and will take place June 26, 15:50. Daniel will attend the first three days, June 23-25 - so if you're there, let him know if you'd like to meet with him.

Hasso Plattner Ventures . Design it! . 3rd Forum on Entrepreneurship, June 26
This year, Hasso Plattner Ventures' Design it! event offers you to experience the "World of IT-Design“, seen from the most various and spectecular angles of interesting international speakers. It's just arround the corner from our Mindquarry office, hence you'll definitely see us at our booth if you're around.

Developers portal runs on Mindquarry 1.1 stable
The Mindquarry developers portal located at www.mindquarry.org got upgraded from Mindquarry 1.0-M1 to the new Mindquarry 1.1 stable release. Now our developers community can enjoy the new features as well while working on future product releases. This successful upgrade tells you that the migration script which we provide with the new release actually works.

SVN structure changed
If you're a developer and love to live on the bleeding edge, please notice that the structure of our Subversion repository changed. Most importantly, we introduced a trunk/ directory where early development takes place, as well as a branches/ directory, where we work on upcoming releases.

See the updated instructions how to obtain the source code on our Web site, as well as a how-to about installing Mindquarry from SVN on Mac written by our VP Marketing Sandro Groganz.

 

That's it for today's issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and we hope you enjoyed yourself. See you in the Mindquarry universe!

Yours Mindquarry Team [Less]

Issue #2: Mindquarry 1.1beta is out

Posted over 3 years ago by ordnas

Shalom!

Welcome to the latest issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and thank you for subscribing. Here's a summary of what's new in the Mindquarry universe:

Mindquarry 1.1beta is out
A new version of Mindquarry ... [More] , 1.1beta, is available for free download and we think it rocks! This release includes some great new goodies and we are ready to hear your feedback.

These are the highlights:

More intuitive graphical user interface
Activity timeline to view older versions of files, Wiki pages, tasks
Include tables and images in Wiki pages
Conveniently link to a file, a task or another Wiki page from within the Wiki. In the window for adding a link, you can search for the item you intend to reference.
Desktop client for Mac
and more...

Keep in mind that "beta" means that this release is somewhat unstable. We made it available so that you can test it and let us know about any issues.

By the way: we plan to release the stable version in two weeks. We'll let you know via this newsletter.

All information about 1.1beta, such as new features, downloads, link to an online demo, feature requests, bug reports, etc is available on the Mindquarry 1.1 Release page.

We're a bleeding-edge Open Source company
Datamation published an article entitled Ten Bleeding-Edge Open Source Companies, including Mindquarry. In their evaluation of Mindquarry, they weigh the risks as well as the potentials and conclude: "Certainly there will be plenty of firms shopping for such an app in the years ahead."

Overview of developers portal
The Mindquarry Developers Portal got a new start page. It talks about where to find which information and how to contribute to Mindquarry development.

You could contribute with feature requests, bug reports, technical specification, software development, documentation or anywhere else you'd like to contribute!

LinuxTag, Germany, June 2
Lars Trieloff, COO and co-founder at Mindquarry, will present at LinuxTag 2007. His talk is entitled Supporting Technical Documentation Processes with Open Source Tools and will take place June 2nd, 17-18:00.

It never rains in southern California
Stephan Voigt, our CEO and Sandro Groganz, VP Marketing went to California for the Red Herring Spring. Their time schedule was full, but they sneeked in some time for sight seeing and posted their pictures online. See Stephan's and Sandro's Flickr photos.

 

That's it for today's issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and we hope you enjoyed yourself. See you in the Mindquarry universe!

Yours Mindquarry Team [Less]

Issue #1: Progress on upcoming Mindquarry 1.1 release

Posted over 3 years ago by ordnas

Aloha!

Welcome to the very first issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and thank you for subscribing. Here's a summary of what's new in the Mindquarry universe:

Progress on upcoming 1.1 release
Alexander Klimetschek ... [More] , our Chief Architect, posted some info about the new graphical user interface (GUI) of Mindquarry, which will be included in the upcoming 1.1 release. He describes the approach (user-centered design) as well as the results with some mock ups.

The new GUI will provide better switching between teams as well as easier understanding of what information and functions are available to the user. Buttons for creation of new objects are always visible in the respective context (e.g. create new task when in task management). Last but not least, we think the new GUI is simply nicer to look at.

The Mindquarry development team is currently implementing the CSS and XSLT files. They are done with the top navigation tabs. Development will continue for a few more days, followed by testing.

According to this plan, version 1.1 will be released in 2-3 weeks.

Service offers launched
Mindquarry Customer Services now offer various services to low-budget as well as mission-critical projects. They cover installation, maintenance, consulting and development. Check out the new services pages for more details.

Review of Mindquarry as KB software
Ionut Margelatu reviewed Mindquarry in his search for a knowledge base software. His conclusion: "Mindquarry offers all the features I was looking for and it’s pretty straight-forward to use." Find pros and cons in his blog entry.

Red Herring Spring, USA, May 1-3
Mindquarry has been invited to speak as one of the Red Herring Europe 2007 award winners at the Red Herring Spring in Monterey, CA, USA. The event takes place May 1-3.

If you're around, let our CEO Stephan Voigt or VP Marketing Sandro Groganz know that you'd like to meet with them. They can also meet with you outside of the event in Monterey. They will be in San Francisco May 4th and in Los Angeles May 5th as well.

ApacheCon, the Netherlands, May 1-3
Meet with Mindquarry developers at ApacheCon Europe May 1-4, 2007. Alexander Saar, our CTO and co-founder as well as Lars Trieloff, COO and co-founder will be there.

Collaborative barbecue
The Mindquarry team gathered for the first time in front of the office on the veranda for barbecue. The historic moment got captured, don't miss the barbecue pictures on Flickr.

That's it for today's issue of Mindquarry Community Newsletter and we hope you enjoyed yourself. See you in the Mindquarry universe!

Yours Mindquarry Team [Less]