= They said about Trac ... =

Here you can find some interesting external resources about Trac.

== Articles on the Web == #web

 - [http://software.newsforge.com/ newsforge]
   [http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/10/12/1425223.shtml Project management with Trac] [[br]]
   ''talks about Trac 0.8, though''

== Presentations of Trac == #slides

 - John Villalovos wrote an [GoogleGroups:trac-users:da3b502fd6dcf702 Introduction to Trac]

== Talks involving Trac == #talks

 - Trac for 
   [http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/xp2006/activities2.html#Distributed%20design  distributed design], 
   at [http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/xp2006/ XP2006]

== Publications involving Trac == #publications

 - [http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/research/tr/tr582.pdf Wattle Tree: What’ll it Tell Us?]  ''PDF''
 - [http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/research/tr/tr581.pdf The Big Five and Visualisations of Team Work Activity] (longer) ''PDF''

== Mentions in Books == #books

 * From  __[http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10130 The Definitive Guide to SQLite]__, a new book by [http://www.mikesclutter.com/ Mike Owens], quoting [http://www.apress.com/ApressCorporate/supplement/1/10130/1590596730-3520.pdf Chapter 1, page 5]:
    You can find SQLite as an alternate back-end storage facility for a wide array of  open source projects such as Yum—the package manager for Fedora Core, Movable Type, DSPAM, ''Edgewall Software’s excellent Trac SCM and project management system'', and KDE’s Amarok audio player, to name just a few.
   Mike Owens is the original author of PySqlite, the Python bindings for SQLite.
 * From __[http://producingoss.com/ Producing Open Source Software]__, a new book by [http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/ Karl Fogel], quoting [http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/bug-trackers.html#bugtrackers-trac Appendix B. Free Bug Trackers]:
    Trac is a bit more than a bug tracker: it's really an integrated wiki and bug tracking system. It uses wiki linking to connect issues, files, version control changesets, and plain wiki pages. It's fairly simple to set up, and integrates with Subversion
   Karl Fogel is one of the main Subversion developer.

== Awards == 

 * '''UK Linux & Open Source Awards 2006''' [[br]]
   Trac made it in the in the 
   [http://www.linuxawards.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=32 short-listed winners]
   in the ''Best Linux Developer Tool '' category (I guess this means we're simply nominees, next to heavy weights like Launchpad and Mono). [[br]]
   ... and finally [http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=214 won the award] in its category!
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See also: [wiki:TracUsers User Testimonials]