Aiki Framework is a

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from the web. The Fabricatorz global production company was its commercial steward and has used it to build Open Clip Art Library 3.0 and the now public Open Font Library. Both sites using Aiki Framework were publicly announced at Libre Graphics Meeting 2011.

Status

The last release of the software approximately coincided with the March 15, 2012 detainment in Syria of the technology's inventor, Bassel Khartabil. Aiki Framework was for a long time the underlying technology of the Open Clip Art Library and still is for Open Font Library, but the technology was deprecated since 2016 when it was resurrected and put on

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Usage

The goal of Aiki Framework is to make a fast system for developing heavily trafficked communities where developers are used to editing source code, but can not directly because of necessary security precautions in running a web server.

Examples

* Open Clip Art Library * Open Font Library

Participants

* Christopher Adams * Dave Crossland * Steven Garcia * Brad Phillips * Jon Phillips * Bassel Safadi * Barry Threw * Jakub Jankiewicz

Bassel Khartabil

On 1 August 2017, it was reported that the inventor of Aiki, Bassel Khartabil (known as Bassel Safadi), had been executed in prison by the Syrian government.

References

External links

* {{Cite web , url=http://aikiframework.org/ , title=Official website , access-date=19 December 2010 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002041620/http://aikiframework.org/ , archive-date=2 October 2012 , url-status=bot: unknown , df=dmy-all Free content management systems PHP frameworks Content management systems Website management Document management systems Software using the GNU AGPL license