KnowNet is an active supporter of movements to use open-source software and open interoperability standards to create better online environments for collaborative work and learning. Since 2003, we have based our development efforts on Zope and Plone , and have considerable expertise in extending those open-source systems to provide effective collaboration and learning sites. We are about to begin releasing some open-source products which extend Plone in important ways to enhance its support for collaboration. Watch the products area for news about releases of those products. KnowNet also leads the SIGOSSEE project; go there for information and discussions about open-source and open standards movements for improving online learning and collaboration.

Go to the projects and clients area to find out more about the work KnowNet is doing for other projects. The products and downloads area describes our main development work, and outlines what we can do to help your project or organisation. It also organises access to our open-source products. In the writing and ideas area, you will find discussion documents, occasional papers and weblogs written by KnowNetters, covering a broad range of topics concerning the past, present and future of e-learning and collaboration on the web. Current weblogs are KNotations (technology), The Wales-Wide Web (Graham Attwell) and elearning2.0 (Mike Malloch). The open discussions area contains active forums, discussion papers and 'team tasks' which the broader community can participate in. if you want to know more about KnowNet, the about knownet area tells a little more about our aims and history.

Mike Malloch's new personal weblog, covering trends, ideas, architecture and development in web2.0 with a strong emphasis on how to make the whole wild web a great learning tool :
elearning2.0 :: putting the 'oh!' back into elearning

You may be looking for information and download areas for KNotes, the open-source weblogging and discussion system for Plone and Zope which KnowNet has developed. To download knotes, or read release notes and installation documentation, go to:

• The most stable bug free version of KNotes can be downloaded from http://knotes.sourceforge.net. This is a nightly built tarball.
• our knotes downloads area, or
• the knotes sourceforge pages

We also occasionally post development notes and how-tos to our development weblog, KNotations, We also plan to erect a sandbox site in which you can experiment with knotes features without installing in your own sites.

You can quickly browse through an outline of the site by using the 'View in fast folders' tool (see the list of tools at the left of the page). If you have javascript enabled, you can click on the folder-icons in fast_folders view to dynamically expand and collapse outline-views of the content structure.

If you are looking for legacy content from our old website, try browsing through the folders in this archive. If you were looking for Skills Review, please see this weblog entry. Other archived content includes the ICT & SMEs Seminars, iLab, the COVOSECO / Evaluate demo (requires SVG), our old project portals and the CEDRA site.

If you are interested in participating in discussion and debate about online learning and collaborative work - especially about open-source and open-standards for moving forward towards better solutions - please join the site and participate in discussions at the open discussions and writing areas and weblogs. If you are a software developer or online project manager, please feel free to participate in discussions about KnowNet's software development products and activities in the products and downloads area.

Please let us know if you would like to know more, or if you have encountered any problems with this site.