New T2 world-map on-line, T2 ID, soon

Hi all,

for some time now we had a world map on the T2 user's startpage,
however this map had some more and more nagging drawbacks:

- the old map was based on Frappr, which is:
  - bought by Yahoo!
  - main site requires Flash, now
  - HTML view was disabled when they went Flash and only
    re-enabled on popular request but does not work right anymore,
    only half of the T2 users pins of the Flash view show up
    in the HTML view
  - loads very slowly
- we do not have the data and don't know what they do with it

The old map can still be seen here:

  http://www.t2-project.org/startpage/index-old.html

In order to fix the biggest issue, not showing all pins, we have written an own
- all-new - implementatin just using the Google Maps API:

  http://www.t2-project.org/startpage/

Pros of the new map code:

- we have the data and can render all sorts of views from it,
  like world map, now and even later the contributor list at:
    http://www.t2-project.org/developer/people.html
- we can later use the now introduced "T2 ID" for all points
  where one can somehow log into T2 websites, like:
  - SVN
  - Trac
  - Homepage / Wiki edit
  as single sign-in.
- our server side CGI written in Lua!
- we can change the map pins to nice T2 pins or so
- and last but not least: the maps shows all actual contributors
  (not only to those with Flash)

I hope you love it as well - yours,

-- 
  René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
  http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name

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