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Galaxiki 2.5
July 02, 2011

Today we're officially launching Galaxiki 2.5. We've been working on this update during the past few months, offering updates on a regular basis. All planned features are now installed and available.

The update includes over 100 bigger and smaller changes, many of them had been requested by our community members for a long time. A detailed list of the most important changes can be found on the Galaxiki website (www.galaxiki.org).

Joopita Research - One Year Already!
June 21, 2011

Exactly one year ago on June 21, 2010, we founded Joopita Research a.s.b.l.

In October/November 2010 we released Galaxiki 2.0, introducing the new CorneliOS/CIOS Community Layer. Galaxiki 2.0 was a successful relaunch of this great Sci-Fi community site, and the new CIOS Community Layer also clearly marked the direction our entire organization would take.

In December 2010 we released the first prototype of the Joopita IBS, the Integrated Business Suite. The IBS may still be a prototype, but it's already a very useful tool we're relying on every day. Expect to see important update to this application in 2012.

In January 2011 CorneliOS 1.0 has been released. The initial release still lacks some core features such as the DAC layer, but the software has proven to be very reliable, it's been transformed into a powerful framework/platform and it's powering all of our projects now.

In May 2011 we released the Morzino BETA preview ONE, followed by BETA TWO in June. Within the next few months we intend to finish work on the Morzino Project, which is our next generation platform for the education world.

To celebrate the first birthday of our organization we'd like to announce that work on Galaxiki 2.5 and the CIOS Community Layer 2.0 has now been finished, and Galaxiki 2.5 will be officially launched within the next few days.

Morzino BETA Preview release available now
May 01, 2011

We've just released the Morzino BETA Preview, which means that the site is now ready to be tested. Morzino is a free and open eLearning community for students, parents and teachers.

Some features have not been implemented yet, but they will follow soon. We hope that the final version of the site will become available during the second half of 2011.

Morzino is based on the CIOS framework, which is part of the CorneliOS web OS. Morzino uses the same technology as the popular Galaxiki site at its core.

Morzino is currently available in english, although some of the content has also been translated to german, french and luxembourgish already. Futher languages shall follow soon. morzino.de is the localized version for the german speaking market while oli.lu is a dedicated release for the luxembourgish eduction market.

More than 95% of the Morzino code is available as free software under the GPL as it's part of CorneliOS and CIOS, you may download it now from the CorneliOS website.

Joopita Web Directory project ending this month
April 11, 2011

In early April 2011 we've decided to terminate the Joopita Web Directory project. Joopita.com was our first web directory project, launched back in October 2007 as one of the first CorneliOS powered sites.

It has been online for three and a half years and it was a very successful project for us, with more than 30,000 users submitting about 50,000 websites. It was even ranked among the top 50,000 websites worldwide and among the top 5,000 sites in India on Alexa in 2009.

So why do we end this project if it's been so successful?

Well, we think the days of web directories are over. The Joopita Web Directory had it's time, but now it has become more or less obsolete, just as much as most other web directories too. After the latest Google software updates traffic dropped considerably and most search engines even start to completely exclude smaller web directories from their top results. We don't want to invest time in technology that has no real future.

But we've learned a lot from this project, and the core technology won't be lost. We will also continue to invest time in search and directory technology, but this will probably end up in completely new projects.

Joopita.com has been offline since April 3. The shutdown also means that sister projects on Galaxiki.org and Morzino.com will be closed too.

We'd like to thank all of those who supported the directory, linked to it and submitted websites to it during the past few years.

R.I.P Joopita Web Directory...

CorneliOS 1.0 Final Release available now
January 04, 2011

We've just released CorneliOS 1.0, which is the Final Release of our web based multi-user OS. We think the core OS, the CMS and the CIOS framework are now stable enough to be used on production systems.

CorneliOS is already powering all of our websites - including the website of our organisation (www.joopita.org), the award winning Galaxiki sci-fi community site, the Joopita IBS and some more projects.

Some of the planned features for the 1.0 version didn't make it to current release, including the DAC layer. We will complete these missing features this year and they will be added with upcoming releases.

CorneliOS is available as free software under the GPL, you may download it now from the CorneliOS website.

Joopita IBS alpha prototype has been released
December 08, 2010

Today we proudly announce the immediate availability of the Joopita IBS (Integrated Business Suite). The Joopita IBS is a suite of tools for businesses, organisations and institutions. It improves your internal communications and allows to manage contacts, todo lists, calendars and more.

The Joopita IBS is Free Software, released under the GPL. You may download it for free, use it at will, take a look at its source code or modify it.

It is a completely new software product, based on our proven CorneliOS and CIOS technology. It is still a prototype and shall not be used in production environments. Greatly improved updates will become available in 2011.

The Joopita IBS can be used on all platforms and with all modern web browsers. Linux or MacOS X are required on the server side. Check out the Joopita pages for more information about the software.

Galaxiki 2.0 Public BETA
October 18, 2010

Just a short update:

Today we've launched the Galaxiki 2.0 Public BETA - most of the new features are now available, those still missing will go live within the next few days and weeks. The final Galaxiki 2.0 release is scheduled for mid November.

We started working on the new site version about a year ago, it was really a lot of work to make this update happen but now we're more than happy with the result - we think that this piece of technology gets us up to a completely new level!

The good part is that most of the new core features are based on CorneliOS/CIOS, which means that we'll be able to easily reuse them for other projects... But that's not the point here, we hope you'll find the time to check out the new site and we really hope you like it!

Check out the info page on Galaxiki:
galaxiki.org/info/20

CorneliOS BETA 2 available now
October 04, 2010

Today we've released CorneliOS BETA 2 (release 0.10.10r4), which marks the last phase in the development cycle that shall lead to the final CorneliOS 1.0 release which is due in January 2011.

BETA 2 already offers the new CorneliOS session management and other improvements, and the global focus will now shift from CIOS to CorneliOS within the next few weeks.

A lot of work still has to be done - the DAC layer is still missing, the core apps have to be refined and the user interface has to be tweaked. Work on the DAC layer will start in October, this will be the most tricky part so we'd like to face it as early as possible. But we're very confident that all work will be finished by the end of the year.

CorneliOS is available as free Open Source software under the GPL and can be downloaded from Sourceforge.net. Visit cornelios.org for more information.

Joopita.org Q3/2010
October 01, 2010

Joopita Research a.s.b.l has been founded three months ago on June 21, 2010, so it's about time to reveal what we've done during the past quarter and to talk about our plans for the next one.

* The joopita.org website is now up and running, filled with some useful content and powered by the latest CorneliOS release. Much information is still missing, we're working on it, although most of our energy currently goes into CorneliOS and Galaxiki.

* We've migrated all of our websites to a new server architecture and network infrastructure. Our new main server is way faster and the increased disk capacity now allows to offer better storage options to our users. In 2011 we will continue to expand our hardware and network technologies.

* CorneliOS BETA 1 has been developed in Q3/2010, focusing mostly on the CIOS Perl Framework. We've implemented a new CIOS session management, a working CIOS community layer with lots of social networking features as well as the new CIOS app engine that can be used by site users to create their own apps. Only very few features are still missing or not working yet, these will follow within the next few weeks.

* CorneliOS BETA 2 will be released within the next few days, introducing the new CorneliOS session management and lots of both core and UI enhancements. During the next three months we'll focus on completing all missing CorneliOS core technologies (the most important being the DAC layer) and all core applications will also be revamped.

* CorneliOS 1.0 is still on schedule for January 2011, and we think this will be an awesome piece of software when ready.

* Within the next few weeks we'll launch the Galaxiki 2.0 Public BETA. Galaxiki 2.0 is completely based on the new CIOS Perl Framework and Galaxiki users will finally be able to use all new features now. The official launch of Galaxiki 2.0 is still on schedule for late 2010.

We have incredibly cool projects in the pipeline for 2011, for stay tuned and check back often!

Joopita Research has been founded
June 21, 2010

We'd like to announce that we officially founded our non-profit organisation called Joopita Research today. After years of creating innovative Open Source software projects and open Community platforms we felt it was about time to create both a recognizable label and a legal basis for these projects.

Joopita Research regroups some of our most innovative and successful products: the CorneliOS Web OS, the Galaxiki science fiction community platform, the Jamplifier artist CMS, the Joopita Web Directory and much more.

Within the next few months we'll focus on completing some of our largest and most important projects: the CorneliOS WebOS and the CIOS Perl framework - both currently still BETA - shall be released as CorneliOS 1.0 in January 2011, Galaxiki 2.0 shall be ready for the end of this year and our new education platform shall become available as BETA around the same time.

This all means that we're currently quite busy and that we don't have much time for updating our new website joopita.org - anyway, stay tuned as lots of cool stuff is in the pipeline for 2011!