About the OpenRecord project

The goal of the project is to create an open source software product. The product we're making is a wiki engine, but where most wiki engines are geared toward pages of text, OpenRecord is geared toward loosely-structured database content.

History

February 2005 -- started writing code
August 2005 -- first demo documents, and first real demos
November 2005 -- became a project of the Dojo Foundation
February 2006 -- first screencasts
Summer 2006 -- participated in Google's Summer of Code
Summer 2006 -- new plugins: bar-chart, scatter-plot, pivot-table
September 2006 -- new demo page on the web site (with compressed pre-built code)
mid-2006 to mid-2007 -- collaborated on designing new Dojo data-access APIs (dojo.data)
Spring 2007 -- converted OpenRecord to use the new dojo.data APIs
Summer 2007 -- converted OpenRecord from dojo 0.4 to dojo 0.9
Summer 2007 -- began collaborating with Atomic Labs
Fall 2007 -- first version to use Google Gears
Late 2007 -- converted OpenRecord from dojo 1.0
2008 -- ___________

Status (as of December 2007)

OpenRecord is continuing as an ongoing Dojo Foundation project. We are collaborating with Atomic Labs to build a version of the OpenRecord front end that that will connect to a server built on the open source Pion libraries, and Atomic Labs plans to ship PionDB as an open source personal datastore that conveniently bundles this work.

License

OpenRecord is open source software. OpenRecord is distributed by the Dojo Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to creating open source AJAX software. The OpenRecord code is available under either the Academic Free License or the BSD License, whichever you prefer.

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