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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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Google Summer of Code 2008 is on.

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 … Continue reading

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Wiki upgraded

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. Tweet

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Using the launchpad for more transparent development

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 … Continue reading

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Scheduled wiki upgrade, possible downtime

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. Tweet

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Main website update

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 … Continue reading

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The 12 million dollar project

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… Tweet

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Welcome Castlegard

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 … Continue reading

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Meeting Summary 2006-10-28

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 … Continue reading

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