<h1>Welcome</h1> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="3"> <p> <strong>OpenGuides</strong> is a network of free, community-maintained "wiki" city guides to which anyone can contribute.<br> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%"><p> <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> <br> December 21, 2004: <a href="/page/release_notes#0.47">OpenGuides 0.47</a> released with a number of bugfixes. <br> <br> <strong><a href="/page/news">More news...</a></strong> </p></td> <td width="33%"><p align="center"> <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" border="0"><br> <strong>Read about us on perl.com!</strong></a> </p></td> <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. <p style="border: 1px solid #999; text-align: center; padding: 5px"> Please help us register a <a href="/trademark.html">trademark</a>! </p></td> </tr> </table> <h2>Contributors Needed</h2> <p> 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. </p> <p> 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>. </p>