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Summer of Code students announced

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 … Continue reading

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DNS troubles for worldforge.org [update]

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 … Continue reading

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WorldForge accepted into Google Summer of Code 2010

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 … Continue reading

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Google Summer of Code 2009 is on

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 … Continue reading

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WOMBAT 0.1.1 released.

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 … Continue reading

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WOMBAT 0.1.0 released.

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 … Continue reading

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WOMBAT 0.0.4 released.

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 … Continue reading

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WOMBAT 0.0.3 released.

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. Tweet

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WOMBAT 0.0.1 released.

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 … Continue reading

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Summer of Code 2008 students announced

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 … Continue reading

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