Because of the grayness of this area, I have decided to put ports of Mockups to Twiki, MediaWiki and Deki Wiki on the back burner for the time being, at least until I after I investigate the question and its risks fully with my lawyer. It's a gray area, and unfortunately I haven't been able to find a definitive answer on the subject ( here's one, here's another, here's some legalese, here's a controversy.). The GPL license has a clause in it which might be interpreted in a way that forbids developers from selling proprietary plugins like I do. Recently I looked into the licensing for Twiki (and MediaWiki, and Mindtouch Deki Wiki), and they are all open source applications released under the GPL license. Well, I'm glad you asked! □ I have had "Mockups for Twiki" on my TODO list for a long time, mostly because a friend at a very large tech company told me that if I ported Mockups to Twiki his company might buy it. Peldi Wait a minute: what about Twiki? Wasn't that next on your list? OK, back to Image Upload, Choose your Font and Printing Support! □ Working with someone else after three months of being by myself was quite refreshing (I missed the human interaction!), and I am looking forward to doing that more.stay tuned. On a personal note, building this 4th version of Mockups has been a great project for me. I am looking forward to working with them and everyone at XWiki in the future. I would also like to thank Guillaume Lerouge and Pascal Bouche from XWiki SAS: it is thanks to them that I can now boast about being an " XWiki technical partner". Luis was the first contractor I ever hired, and I'm afraid he has spoiled me! □ Luis has already used Mockups for XWiki for one of his personal projects in a coporate setting with great success, and is interested in working on collaborative design projects using Mockups for XWiki. Luis has since moved on to start Pilango, a lifestyle company focusing on crowdsourcing applications, but his deep knowledge of the XWiki platform and his passion for high quality software made working with him a real pleasure. Most of the development for this product was done by Luis Arias, a rock-star developer of Colombian origin living in France who happens to have joined XWiki's founder Ludovic Dubost as employee #1 back in 2005. Download the free 30-day trial and give it a spin on your own XWiki installation.Īs always, if you have any questions, feel free to contact me via email, IM, etc.Read the documentation for a full tour of the Mockups/XWiki integration.Look at the product's home page for more details.Watch the video above if you haven't yet: here it is in HD.Licenses come with a year of free support and updates: see here for full details. XWiki is free! With all the money you are saving on the wiki software, you'll certainly be able to afford Mockups for XWiki, right? □ Licenses start at $900 for a 25-user, perpetual license. Always wanted Mockups but couldn't afford a wiki? Mockups for XWiki is tightly integrated with XWiki: the UI mockups stay with the wiki page, are versioned and you can specify who in your organization is allowed to edit mockups and who isn't. On top of that, with quick and easy iterations, your software or web site's usability will be much higher, resulting in happier customers and ultimately more sales. Add the ability to create, edit and embed UI Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups and you'll save even more time and money. Using a wiki for software or web site design makes your team more productive. “Mockups for XWiki brought us the power of two great tools to put ourĬustomer and the project team on the same page.” - Luis Arias, Pilango I suggest watching the video in HD and going full-screen, it’s so much better! Here it is as well. You can download it, test it and if you wish, buy it today! Quick and dirty screencast So it is with great pleasure that I am announcing the immediate availability of Balsamiq Mockups for XWiki, the latest version of Balsamiq Mockups. Oh and did I mention that it's open source, free software? □ If the words "open source wiki" make you uncomfortable, don't worry: XWiki is a mature product - the first release was in 2003, can you believe it? - and it's backed by XWiki SAS, a Paris, France-based company that offers support, training, hosting, consulting and custom development around the platform - here's a sample of XWiki-powered projects. The excellent XWiki Enterprise, for instance, is a full-featured, highly usable and really powerful wiki. In case you didn't know, XWiki ( ) is both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm and a set of products developed on top of it. Less than a month since shipping Mockups for JIRA, I have some more exciting news to share.
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