Stay tuned at http://twikifork.org/ - until we have a new name.
Quoting: "The new project (the name is as of yet undecided, nextwiki, twikifork and notwiki are just placeholders), promises new features that have been long-awaited while maintaining a clear upgrade path for existing installations."
Peter Thoeny has always had the trademark to twiki. It has become a problem since he has transferred (parts) of the trademark to TWIKI.NET, the commercial kid on the block. That company wants the control over the trademark and twiki.org development. They could not get the latter naturally, so they forced it their way.
We are seeing the trend that large organizations that want to employ a collaboration platform are informing themselves on the health and working of the community. So: no, it is not viable without a healthy community.
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Stay tuned at http://twikifork.org/ - until we have a new name. Quoting: "The new project (the name is as of yet undecided, nextwiki, twikifork and notwiki are just placeholders), promises new features that have been long-awaited while maintaining a clear upgrade path for existing installations."
Peter Thoeny has always had the trademark to twiki. It has become a problem since he has transferred (parts) of the trademark to TWIKI.NET, the commercial kid on the block. That company wants the control over the trademark and twiki.org development. They could not get the latter naturally, so they forced it their way.
We are seeing the trend that large organizations that want to employ a collaboration platform are informing themselves on the health and working of the community. So: no, it is not viable without a healthy community.
A clarification: TWiki has never received any funding, let alone by a venture capitalist. This has been a takeover out of the blue.