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===== What is ClockingIT? =====
[[http://www.clockingit.com|ClockingIT]] is a free Project Management solution, which helps your team stay focused and on top of things. It was created by Erlend & Ellen Simonsen, with contributions from a range of other people.

The project was started while Erlend was working as a consultant, and needed a way to keep track of how much time was spent per client and project. Earlier attempts in .NET and Java took too long or became too complex for one programmer to complete in a reasonable amount of time, but when [[http://www.rubyonrails.com|Ruby On Rails]] was announced things started progressing nicely.


===== Getting Started =====
To get started, look at the [[wiki:tutorial|tutorial]] (work in progress). It's not all that hard to use, but it might take some getting used to if you're unfamiliar with things like [[wiki:tutorial#tags]] or [[wiki:tutorial#milestones|milestones]].  You may also find the [[wiki:faq|Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)]]  area useful. 

If you're looking to run your own local installation, you should go to the [[wiki:source|getting the source]] page and follow the instructions on that page.


===== Using ClockingIT =====

=== Using the free hosted service ===

[[http://www.clockingit.com/signup|Sign up for free]] and starting using Clocking IT immediately.

=== Download and install ===

The source for ClockingIT is [[wiki:source|available]] under the open source [[http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html|MIT/X Consortium License]]. Major features planned can be seen in the [[wiki:roadmap|Roadmap]] and development pages are found [[dev:index|here]].

Clocking IT is fairly simple to install on any Unix/Linux/OSX system with Ruby and mysql available.

===== Helping with translation =====

We're currently localizing ClockingIT to several languages. If you want to help, log into your ClockingIT account, select your wanted language, and click the 'Help translate' link in the bottom bar.

===== Platform =====
  * [[http://wiki.splitbrain.org/|DokuWiki]]
  * [[http://www.freebsd.org|FreeBSD]]
  * [[http://www.mysql.com|MySQL]]
  * [[http://www.rubyonrails.com|Ruby on Rails]]
    * [[http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/|Juggernaut]] for Comet functionality
    * eventmachine for juggernaut server
    * gzip plugin
    * asset-packager plugin
    * Ferret & [[http://projects.jkraemer.net/acts_as_ferret/|acts_as_ferret]]

===== Wiki =====
This site is a wiki, which means that you can edit these pages after you have created an account. If you are a user of [[http://www.clockingit.com|ClockingIT]] and want to help us out with the documentation, [[http://wiki.clockingit.com/doku.php?id=home&do=register|please register now]]! If you would like to, you can spend some time reading about [[wiki:syntax|the syntax of this wiki]], and you can even go and [[playground:playground|try out the wiki in the playground]] without creating an account.