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Contents 1 Welcome to the GiantDisc Wiki! 1.1 Help wanted! (apply inside) 1.2 Other ways to support this project 1.3 Legal Stuff 2 Manual 3 Development and Roadmap

Welcome to the GiantDisc Wiki!

This collection of pages will ultimately become the complete collection of everything you ever wanted to know - or say - about GiantDisc.

We just finished moving the manual from the webpage into the Wiki, and are now focusing on updating it - so you probably will still find some unfinished pages and dead-ends here and there. Please excuse the dust. After browsing around here for a bit, you might want to look into the forums on the giantdisc.org homepage to satisfy your thirst for more knowledge. When you're wiser, you should come back here and read the following (or read it now while you're still here):

Help wanted! (apply inside)

If you have some free time on your hands you could earn our undying gratitude by helping out with polishing the documentation and adding your own success stories and tips & tricks for GD. To do that, please create yourself a SourceForge account and contact one of the project admins. We would greatly appreciate any help, no matter how small - as we would love to go back to coding!

Other ways to support this project

• Post suggestions and bug reports in the discussion forum
• Answer questions of other GD users in the discussion forum
• Post bug reports and feature requests on the trackers
• Contribute your code or new clients. More information on that topic in the developers corner.

Legal Stuff

• GiantDisc, including the Palm client, the Perl server scripts and all additional client packages are provided freely as Open Source software, under the terms of the http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. Basically this means GiantDisc is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify GiantDisc provided that you agree: to provide the source to others, not to modify or remove the original license, and to apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the license (GPL) for full details and please contact the copyright holder directly if you have any questions.
• The usual legal notices apply like "We cannot be made liable to damages caused by the GiantDisc software. Use it at your own risk."

Manual

• Concept
• Features
• GD Installation
• Server
• Palm Client
• Other Clients
• Maintenance
• Technical Documentation

Development and Roadmap

• Contributors Developer Guidelines
• The Next Generation GiantDisc2 considerations