The selection period for the Google Summer of Code is now complete and we’re happy to announce the four students who will be working on Worldforge during the summer. Just like the last two years we had a good collection of really excellent applications and we want to thank all students who applied. The four [...]
Hi folks, it seems like we have sort of a brown-out for worldforge.org dns lookups. Our name servers are still giving out the correct IP addresses, but for some reason many providers’ DNS servers seem to have forgotten they need to contact our DNS servers to resolve worldforge.org addresses. While the worldforge.org domain is down, [...]
Just like in the previous two years, Google has decided to accept WorldForge into the Google Summer of Code. Interested students can spend their summer break flipping code not burgers at WorldForge. See our project proposals page for some ideas of what you could work on. If you have your own idea, don’t hesitate to [...]
WorldForge has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2009. If you are a student interested in participating, see our project ideas list, visit us in the #lounge channel on irc.worldforge.org, say hello on the general mailing list or post on the WorldForge forum. We are looking forward to hearing [...]
Thanks to Thomas Ingham aka. magnethead, WOMBAT now uses CSS instead of tables for layout elements. While he was at it, Tom also revamped the colour scheme. This got me to work on some user interface issues myself, getting you a new WOMBAT look as well as improved navigation. As always, check out the live [...]
I’m happy to announce the first alpha release of WOMBAT. WOMBAT provides a nicer web frontend to the WorldForge media repository. The 0.1.0 release provides the basic functionality of browsing the media repository: A directory view listing subdirectories and files in the shown directory A file view showing detailed information about the file and a [...]
WOMBAT 0.0.4 has been released today. Changes to version 0.0.3 include Files are now grouped by type in the directory view The file view has preview for text, image and sound files As always, my home box runs a demo site.
Probably the last release of the current sprint, I’m glad to announce WOMBAT 0.0.3. Changes to 0.0.2: Only scan media repository once Show “Latest Additions” As before, my home box has a demo.
The WorldForge team is proud to present the first release of WOMBAT, the WorldForge Open Media Browser/Archive Tool. WOMBAT aims to improve the user experience browsing our media repository by providing a nice web front-end and, in later versions, search (and maybe even upload) features. As you can tell from the version number, WOMBAT is [...]
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: Implement advanced entity creator [...]