diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index dbed4604fd940c7e68a2012ae190bece51bce2e2..42263c4dff012514afb18c4beb10d8697100dfa4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ # Spacedeck Open -This is the free and open source version of Spacedeck, a web based, real time, collaborative whiteboard application with rich media support. Spacedeck was developed in 6 major releases during Autumn 2011 until the end of 2016 and was originally a commercial SaaS. The developers were Lukas F. Hartmann (mntmn) and Martin Güther (magegu). All icons and large parts of the CSS were designed by Thomas Helbig (dergraph). +This is the free and open source version of Spacedeck, a web based, real time, collaborative whiteboard application with rich media support. Spacedeck was developed in 6 major releases during Autumn 2011 until the end of 2016 and was originally a commercial SaaS. The developers were Lukas F. Hartmann (mntmn) and Martin Güther (magegu). -As we plan to retire the subscription based service at spacedeck.com in May 2018, we decided to open-source Spacedeck to allow educational and other organizations who currently rely on Spacedeck to migrate to a self-hosted or local version. +The spacedeck.com online service was shut down on May 1st 2018. We decided to open-source Spacedeck to allow educational and other organizations who currently rely on Spacedeck to migrate to a self-hosted or local version. + +We appreciate filed issues, pull requests and general discussion. **Windows users:** Try the one-click release at https://github.com/spacedeck/spacedeck-open/releases/tag/v0.9 Desktop releases for Linux and Mac will be published here soon. In the meantime, you have to install Node.JS to run Spacedeck. -We appreciate filed issues, pull requests and general discussion. - # Features - Create virtual whiteboards called *Spaces* with virtually unlimited size