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July 08, 2005
Have you swikked yet?
For the past 5 months I have been talking to SourceLabs about open source. They are a promising startup offering support for commonly used open source. The research I have read consistently shows lack of support as the largest inhibitor of open source adoption. To make themselves known to the open source community, SourceLabs decided to give something back. That something is swik. Swik is a little hard to describe, thus the title of this post - have you swikked yet? It is a combination of del.icio.us, freshmeat, and an open source themed wikipedia. Its aim is to be a repository of knowledge about open source projects. Like wikipedia, anyone can edit anything. Like freshmeat, it has information on open source projects. Like del.icio.us it is a social network. The hope is it will provide some much needed meta information about projects, and be more than freshmeat and do more than sourceforge search. A lot of thought has been put into swik. Search for a project. If it does not exist, swik's robots will go out to the usual places and discover information about it. On its own this makes using swik useful. But if others come along and add extra information then it becomes quite valuable. I encourage you to get behind swik and make it work.Posted by gluck at July 8, 2005 10:42 AM