I have just created an account on SlideShare.net, a place where you can post your presentations and slideshows. I will use it to post various presentations and learning materials about Invenzzia projects, so that you could follow them easily. Currently, you can watch there a tour on Open Power Template (watch on SlideShare). So stay tune and follow us on SlideShare!

Hi everyone, in the last few days, we had a lot of work around Invenzzia and its projects. In this entry I would like to inform, what currently is going on. We will talk about OPT 2, TypeFriendly, our new website and the activity in open source project trackers.

Today morning I've found on webresourcedepot.com a post written four days ago entitled "19 promising template engines". On the fifth position, I noticed the familiar logo of Open Power Template and a description that perfectly matched the 2.0.0-beta version. The link was redirecting to the Invenzzia website. I followed it and I was shocked - I forgot to update the main Invenzzia website! Invenzzia is no longer bilingual for some time, and here still lots of pages were empty, whereas the Polish text was very out-of-date. This was how we welcomed English readers for a couple of months :(. I decided not to wait till Extreme eXtreme (argh, note the uppercased letter - JJ) will finish the new website and to update all the information as soon as possible. And here it is!

Unfortunately, the configuration of a version control system on our current server is not as simple as on Sourceforge.net. But now I found some time and ideas, how to make it work and finally... there it is, we have an SVN repository. It's available under the address http://svn.invenzzia.org/ - we still have to install a good browser. Today I'm going to upload the source code of the new OPL and TypeFriendly, a documentation generator almost ready to its first release. All the instructions, how to connect, will be published on the main site.

From time to time, I return to the library licensing issue. Undoubtedly, the right choice of a license is quite significant for the project success or failure. Simple, permissive licenses are very easy to follow and use, but in my opinion, they are quite dangerous for the project itself and can lead to some abuses. On the other hand, we have a GNU LGPL license, which has been used by Open Power Template so far. It provides the correct protection of the code, however the linking with non-GPL software is quite complex and produces many questions. Let's take a look: we write the libraries for all the website programmers and authors of complete scripts, whether they are open-source or not.