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Summer of Code 2008 students announced

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

The final students for the Google Summer of Code 2008 have been announced. We were really pleased with all of the applications we got and had a really hard time selecting the top three to fill our three slots. The three lucky ones are:
Student: Alexey Torkhov
Mentor: Erik Hjortsberg
Project: […]

Google Summer of Code 2008 is on.

Monday, March 17th, 2008

WorldForge has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008.
If you are a student interested in participating, see our project ideas list, visit us in the #lounge channel on irc.worldforge.org or say hello on the general mailing list. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
We would like to thank […]

Wiki upgraded

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

I have just upgraded the wiki to mediawiki 1.11.0.
My tests are looking good, but if you find anything broken, just send me an email.

Using the launchpad for more transparent development

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

During the last couple of weeks we’ve been using the Launchpad service for development.
The Launchpad is a rich bug and feature tracker developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. It also providers other features useful for developers, such as translations and general answers to common questions about the application. Personally I think one of its […]

Scheduled wiki upgrade, possible downtime

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

This weekend I will upgrade the wiki to mediawki 1.10.0. This wil probably happen on Saturday. I’m not going to estimate the downtime, just expect there’s going to be downtime this weekend.

Main website update

Monday, January 1st, 2007

As many of you will notice, I have spent some time recently tweaking the website to try and improve its usefulness, while others work on long term solutions. The main changes people will have noticed are updated CSS styling, and reworking the links in the navbar.
Most of the work I have done has been based […]

The 12 million dollar project

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

I’ve added Worldforge to the Ohloh code metric system. The entry can be found here.
According to them, Worldforge would cost ~12 million USD to produce from scratch. Yeah…

Welcome Castlegard

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Kai finally got around to place jayr’s fantastic castle on the mason map.
Now people can start exploring the castle, and we can get started adding some gameplay.
Castle defence anyone?
Further screenshots of the castle, which should be included in the next cyphesis release, can be found at:
Approaching Castlegard
Closer look at Castlegard’s entrace
Bird’s eye
Bird’s eye 2
Morning bird’s […]

Meeting Summary 2006-10-28

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

We had a meeting again this Saturday, doing a status check and looking at the next steps to take.
The agenda and summary are available on the wiki.
The next meeting is scheduled for 2006-11-18 19.00 GMT, in #forge on irc.worldforge.org. The agenda for that meeting is available on the wiki.

Meeting Summary 2006-10-07

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

We had a meeting again this Saturday, doing a status check and looking at the next steps to take.
The agenda and summary are available on the wiki.
The next meeting is scheduled for 2006-10-28, in #forge on irc.worldforge.org. The agenda for that meeting is available on the wiki.


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