<h1>Welcome</h1>
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    <strong>OpenGuides</strong> is a network of free, community-maintained "wiki" city guides
    to which anyone can contribute.<br>&nbsp;
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    <span class="red"><strong>News:</strong></span><br>
    April 18, 2005: <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/OpenGuides-Statistics/">OpenGuides::Statistics</a>
    released to let you produce nice graphs of how many nodes you have, like <a
    href="http://london.openguides.org/statistics/">these ones for London</a>.
    <br>&nbsp;<br>
    December 21, 2004: <a href="/page/release_notes#0.47">OpenGuides 0.47</a>
    released with a number of bugfixes.
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    <strong><a href="/page/news">More news...</a></strong>
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    <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/10/31/openguides.html"><img
    src="/img/openguides-perldotcom.gif" width="111" height="91" alt="perl.com - OpenGuides"
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    <strong>Read about us on perl.com!</strong></a>
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    <td width="33%"><img src="/img/rdf_icon_small.png" width="24" height="26" alt="RDF" align="right" style="border: 1px solid #000">
    <strong>Our technical policy:</strong> to provide the maximum possible
    amount of metadata about things in our guides in <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/"><acronym title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</acronym></a>,
    in order to facilitate integration into other systems.
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    Please help us register a <a href="/trademark.html">trademark</a>!
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<h2>Contributors Needed</h2>
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The OpenGuides network needs you! We are always looking for more cities to
add to our collection of guides. If your town isn't represented here, you
can <a href="/page/software">set up a guide</a> yourself and join us.
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Contact us by <a href="mailto:openguides-dev@openguides.org">mailing the
developers</a>, joining the <a href="/page/lists">mailing list</a> or
talking to us on <acronym title="Internet Relay Chat"><a href="/page/irc">IRC</a></acronym>.
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