[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] Just like a book, this topic is designed to help describe the tools used to create this website and what methods were used to give it its look and feel. # Rev. I We used a particular implementation (or clone) of Wiki software called [TWiki](http://twiki.org). A generic [WikiWikiWeb](http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors), or simply Wiki, is _"a collaborative forum where people can share ideas and record any consensus reached on difficult issues, along with rebuttal. It changes as people come and go, as experience develops, and as opinions change." The TWiki software is an enhanced descendent of the original WikiWikiWeb_. We used the [GNU Skin](http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/GnuSkin) created by our own Joachim Nilsson. This site began in May, 2002 as one TWiki web: *Hurd*. This WebHome page was used as the front page of the whole site. We grew this site and added more TWiki webs by December, 2002. Due to the success of the site we had to act with respect to more completely addressing copyright issues. More people started adding content. --- # Rev. II On 2007-08-12 [[Thomas_Schwinge|tschwinge]] finished the conversion of the TWiki content to [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info). Read [[about_the_twiki_to_ikiwiki_conversion]]. --- # Rev. III In November 2008, [[Thomas_Schwinge|tschwinge]] imported the Hurd's current web pages into this repository and made this the official GNU Hurd web appearance.