Habari Watch

My role as Chief of the not-so-secret Habari secret police is to evangelise endlessly about Habari to anyone who will listen in an effort to try to encourage them to, at least, try the software.

Aided by my glamorous and able deputy - Detective Michael C Harris of Melbourne (near Australia), we constantly track all mentions of Habari, across the Interweb, in a concerted effort to detect people who have either recently adopted Habari, discarded Habari in a fit of pique or simply continue to sit on the fence.

Interest in Habari has always been there but recently there does seem to have been a slight increase in people actually migrating or adopting Habari full-time for their blogs.

Old Chinese proverb say: 'There are those that talk and there are those that walk.'

• Sten from Sweden is busy developing an impressive looking theme for Habari.
• Florian, a long standing German Habari user, ported a fantastic looking WordPress theme ('Clean Home') which also adorns his German Habari Magazine site - habarimag.de
• Andreas Jacob is a German theme developer who has released the 'Green Park' theme for both Habari and Wordpress simultaneously.
• Another German has finally got off the fence, removed the splinters from his backside and adopted Habari for his personal blog. Fabian Scherschel is CEO of LaMerk Industries and co-host of the award winning and popular Linux Outlaws podcast.
• Over in Telford (near London), Jem Turner bathes her head in water for the baptism ceremony, converts to Habari and posts her thoughts on the pros (and cons) of her initial experiences with the software.
• Jem is using a theme by Scott who also has a Habari blog with a very striking and clean looking theme.
• Jane Ullah also jumps aboard the Habari bus (only to find there is standing room only on the lower deck) and is very complimentary about the help and support she received from the Habari community in order to make her dreams come true.
• David Bushell is another professional Web designer who has sensibly chosen Habari.

People who would simply love to use the stable version of Habari (0.6.2) but are married to Markdown markup need not worry as Paul Griffin Petty has kindly created a 0.6 version of the Markdown Habari plugin while Caius has another handy Markdown related plugin to show the raw source for any page.

Hot off the presses, a quick word about Simon Elvery's excellent comment-ident plugin which lists all known social profiles for commenters. The plugin is now enabled on this blog so simply click on any comment author URL to see it in action.

Finally, for all those people who are still dithering and procrastinating because they fear being locked in to Habari with no exit strategy back from whence they came. Chris Meller produces a useful PHP script to help traitors and non-believers migrate back from Habari to WordPress.