It's been six months since we hacked together makandra notes and used it to open source our knowledge base. Since then we wrote about 600 notes and posted hundreds of helpful links. A large and thankful audience certainly fueled our enthusiasm to keep going. But even more important, makandra notes changed the way we operate.

What happened is that we don't need to ask anyone to document their findings anymore. Feeling the rush of riding on a wave of yesterday's solutions, everyone understands the value of packaging solutions and never solving the same problem a second time. Our developers do it, our student trainees do it, even our sales people post the occasional note. People I had to force to use our (awful!) Wiki last year are now kicking my ass for keeping a cool piece of code to myself. This is awesome.

We are currently working on a way that lets other teams use the software behind makandra notes, which has been the number one request since we launched the site last year. If you have any ideas for this, please let us know. We cannot promise anything, but we will appreciate and read every piece of feedback we get.