Welcome to the default front page of a stock Nooron instance.

Please have patience with the speed of some of the following pages. No performance tuning has been done yet, that is the top priority for the next point release.

This site is served by Nooron; a product whose aim is to be a distributed, self-improving container for self-improving knowledge and software. The current version has been released in the spirit of "release early, release often". This is the first public release that is conceivably useful. This initial release can be considered a dynamic, knowledge-based, web-publishing system. Arbitrary knowledge in, arbitrary XML out.

Starting points:

• The Nooron FAQ (local) / (central) is a good place to find answers to questions like "What is Nooron?"
• For an overview of the thinking behind the entire project, see: The Nooron Pattern Language (local) / (central). Some of the best views of which can currently only be appreciated by people who are set up for viewing DocBook or GraphViz files. Here are some cached versions of The Nooron Pattern Language via DocBook and The Nooron Pattern Language via GraphViz.
• To learn how to create so-called 'Nooron Apps' see: Nooron App Architecture (local) / (central). It is instructive to examine a graph generated by Nooron (via GraphViz) showing the knowledge-base 'ancestry' of the Nooron FAQ.
• For an example Nooron App here's Smurp's Web Log (local) / (central)

In case it wasn't obvious, all of the above (except the Nooron App Architecture itself) are Nooron App Instances. All the knowledge in this Nooron is available under /know.

Noosphere.org hosted this project before it became tentatively self-hosting. Useful places there include:

• the Nooron Wiki (which was mostly just a scratch-pad while working on Nooron)
• Background documents including old papers and vision statements
• the soon-to-be-replaced-by-a-PERT-Nooron-App and already outdated: Roadmap
• where to get subsequent Nooron releases: Nooron homepage

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