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Larry Augustin and Matt Asay join MindTouch board

From:  "Miiko Mentz" <miiko-AT-future-works.com>
To:  <lwn-AT-lwn.net>
Subject:  NEWS: Larry Augustin and Matt Asay Join MindTouch Board of Advisors
Date:  Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:00:22 -0800
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Larry Augustin and Matt Asay Join MindTouch's Board of Advisors

Open source wiki platform company and developer of Deki Wiki to expand focus on enterprise-class
integration and mashups

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 6, 2007 - MindTouch, the open source wiki platform company and developer of Deki
Wiki, announced that open-source leaders Larry Augustin and Matt Asay have joined its Board of
Advisors. Augustin invests and advises early stage technology companies, and was CEO and founder of
VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX). Asay is general manager, Americas, and VP of Business
Development for Alfresco.

Deki Wiki, the world's most popular vendor-backed wiki, is a free enterprise-class open source wiki
and application platform for communities and businesses. Unlike other wikis, Deki Wiki is an
easy-to-use, customizable, and scalable solution to create, organize, aggregate, mashup and share
information. It's a platform for creating collaborative applications that connect wikis to an
existing software or workflow infrastructure, enhancing productivity across applications and
workgroups.

"MindTouch is enabling businesses to seamlessly connect legacy systems, Web 2.0 applications and
Web-services inside an open, extensible wiki framework. Convergence of information and talent is
critical to the modern IT infrastructure," said Larry Augustin. "The significance of this is
apparent by how quickly the community has rallied around MindTouch's open source technology. I'm
very excited to be part of this team."

Matt Asay added, "MindTouch is defining a new class of software: the Social Enterprise Platform.
Deki Wiki delivers real value to businesses and offers users the ability to create and integrate
enterprise-class custom applications and mashups for greater scalability, ease of use and improved
workflow, which in turn, can result in significant cost savings across the entire organization.
MindTouch is in a rapidly growing segment of the market and I look forward to helping them grow
further."

Additional Resources:
•       Del.icio.us/MindTouch
•       Matt Asay on Deki Wiki: http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9844613-16.html
•       Larry Augustin Bio: http://lmaugustin.typepad.com/About/index.html
•       Matt Asay Bio: http://www.alfresco.com/about/people/all/

About MindTouch
Founded in 2005, San Diego, Calif.-based MindTouch (www.mindtouch.com) is an open source wiki
platform company and developer of Deki Wiki.

MindTouch wiki communities are deployed by small to large enterprises, research institutions,
government agencies, media companies and online communities worldwide, customers include
Fujitsu-Siemens, Gazette Communications, British Petroleum, EMC2 and others.

The company is actively engaged in the open source wiki community and is dedicated to cultivating
ideas and solutions through its unique OpenGarden project (www.opengarden.org).


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