Once again we've been chosen to be nominated, that time as one of the top Ten Bleeding-Edge Open Source Companies.

We are very happy to get such attention. I think it's the result of our close work with our early adaptors, people who see the great potential and help us with their feedback.  We are very grateful to you.

Posted at 12:31AM May 03, 2007 (Permalink) by Stephan Voigt with tags mindquarry opensource  |  Share This Link

We arrived yesterday at the OSMB congress in Nuremberg, were we attend the Poster Session exhibition with a small booth. You'll be able so see some photos at the Mindquarry Photo Booth at flickr.[Read More]

Posted at 09:56AM Jan 24, 2007 (Permalink) by Stephan Voigt with tags congress events opensource  |  Share This Link

You'll be able to meet me and Lars at the Open Source meets Business congress event in Nuremberg from February 23. to 25. 2007. Don't miss that opportunity to talk with us about collaboration and get a pre launch version of our software. You'll find us at the poster sessions. We've been elected as one of 20 open source teams to present our ideas of a new generation collaboration software.[Read More]

Posted at 08:10PM Jan 18, 2007 (Permalink) by Stephan Voigt with tags congress events opensource  |  Share This Link

The Apache Jackrabbit Project announces the release of Apache Jackrabbit 1.1.1 its open-source implementation of the Java Content Repository (JCR) API specification that is used by Mindquarry as the basic storage technology. Jackrabbit allows us to store, query and version control contents without much development overhead.

With the Mindquarry extensions to Apache Jackrabbit and Apache Cocoon it is possible to use Jackrabbit as a native XML store (it stores nodes instead of simply dumping text with angle brackets) with full XPath 1.0 support. These extensions will be made available with our first public release.

Posted at 07:43PM Dec 06, 2006 (Permalink) by Lars Trieloff with tags jackrabbit jcr opensource software  |  Share This Link

Mindquarry is seeking talented web developers with experience in Java, XML, XSLT, Javascript for client-side and server-side work. See the Mindquarry Jobs page or send a mail to Lars Trieloff.

Update: According to the convention proposed by Quim Gil, the Mindquarry Jobs page is now linked from FLOSS Jobs.

Posted at 05:07PM Nov 21, 2006 (Permalink) by Lars Trieloff with tags jobs mindquarry opensource tags team  |  Share This Link

See you tomorrow at the Open Source Business Forum 2006! Mindquarry will present tomorrow at the Open Source Business Forum in Potsdam. The Open Source Business Forum presents an overview to the current development of the open source market on the one hand. On the other hand new business models and business ideas will be presented. The Open Source Business Forum is hosted by Hasso Plattner Ventures and features speakers like Prof. Steve Hand (Xen), Adam Jollans, Till Kreutzer and Rafael Laguna de la Vera (OpenX-Change).

Besides Mindquarry start-up companies like IdealX, Avira, OpenPKG and SeeWhy will be among the presenters.

Posted at 09:33PM Nov 06, 2006 (Permalink) by Lars Trieloff with tags congress opensource potsdam  |  Share This Link

Usability is perceived as a weak point in many open source projects. Last week we had a workshop with Ellen Reitmayr who is involved in the usability efforts of the KDE project and incited openusability.org, a project that connects open source developers and usability engineers.

Her top-five requisites for success in open source usability are:

1. A clear vision
2. A defined process
3. Responsible project-management
4. Understanding incentives for contributors
5. Open channels of communication

With Ellen's help we could re-structure our development process and prepare an infrastructure for and open development process that fosters usability.

Posted at 01:09PM Oct 16, 2006 (Permalink) by Lars Trieloff with tags opensource process usability  |  Share This Link