John Abbe

Been seeking software that empowers people and links what we want linked most of my adult life. In the late 90s and early 00s i started to research more, learned some modern languages (Perl/Python), wrote up some notes, and got very interested in wiki and tagging among other things.

After some great conversations with Ethan and Lewis pre- and early in Decko (Wagn at the time) development, they asked me to join the project. I leapt at the chance — intertwingularity for the masses! I helped make some websites with Decko (including my own), collaborated on the early software design, did a ton of ticketing & testing, some consult to people using it, training Wagneers, writing documentation, doing demonstrations, etc. in the mid-2000s.

Now in 2021, catching back up and seeing what's next.

+wiki

I've offered a few blurbs about Wagn. It scratches some long-running itches of mine, about what i believe can be done with computers & networks, e.g., smoothing the path between user & coder, freedom & structure, and generally making it possible to organize information so that it shows up wherever it's relevant. Two Wagns i'm quite involve with are Pattern Language of Group Process and the Process Arts wiki.

Eager for more InterWiki!