[Quickfix-announce] Announcing WikiFIX

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

Hello everyone,

First, we are working on putting out a new release of QuickFIX very 
soon.  It's a pretty exciting one with a long anticipated feature and 
amazing performance improvements.  However right now I have another 
announcement.

A couple of the things that I've found missing in the FIX and trading 
communities are an organized up-to-date knowledge base, and an active 
self-run FIX community outside of the FPL.  In addition to this, we 
have been struggling with organizing our own QuickFIX community.  The 
mailing lists are useful, but not well organized, and not a great place 
to work out a lot of concepts in detail.  In order to address these 
issues, we are introducing WikiFIX, which as it sounds, is a Wiki 
dedicated to FIX and electronic trading.  For those not familiar with 
Wiki, it is essentially a website where everyone can contribute to the 
content.  Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

You can access WikiFIX either from http://www.wikifix.org, or 
http://www.quickfixengine.org/wikifix.  Both addresses go to the same 
place.  The starting page for QuickFIX specific information is at 
http://www.wikifix.org/index.php?QuickFix.  Here, everyone can 
contribute to the FAQ, report issues, resolutions, patches, or anything 
else that we haven't thought of yet.

Like any Wiki, it is dependent on all of us to make the most out of it. 
  Right now I am only announcing this to the QuickFIX community, but I 
hope to broaden the audience in time.  We intend for the Wiki to be 
vendor neutral.  Hopefully it will allow various engines vendors, 
counter-parties, and all the rest of us communicating in an open, self 
organizing, and continuously updating resource.

--oren