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+OpenMind
+========
+
+Overview
+--------
+Many product companies make product decisions with a flawed understanding of what’s important to their customers. Focus groups, customer advisory boards, and one-on-one conversations all provide data points to determine customer wants and needs. But these approaches make broad assumptions about your users based upon a limited set of anecdotal evidence.
+
+OpenMind enables you to build an online community with your customers and partners, allowing you to:
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+* Find out what features and improvements your customers as a whole would value most
+* Engage in an online discussion with your users to gain deeper insights into their needs
+* Communicate upcoming releases, closing the loop on customer feedback – your customers can see exactly which suggestions became committed features of a future release based upon community feedback
+* Gain deeper insights into specific targeted topic areas through user surveys
+* Allow customers to engage in online discussion with each other and with you via online forums
+* OpenMind uses a unique allocation-based point voting system that creates an environment in which customers will make the same type of trade-off decisions that you do. It’s not enough to know whether a feature request is a good idea or not – you need to know which ideas your customers value most.
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+Product managers make difficult decisions every day – part of their job is to assess trade-offs in order to determine what subset of possible features and improvements to address in a particular release based upon a limited number of resources. For example, the product manager must himself or herself the question: “If I have ten items on a list of possible features for a release and I can only do six of them, which six would provide the most value to my customers?”
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+OpenMind’s allocations create an environment in which your customers make the same tradeoffs that you do. If I can only vote a limited number of times, I will choose wisely where to spend my votes rather than indicating every possible idea that sounds interesting to me.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+Installation and configuration instructions can be found under the doc directory, or [online](http://openmind.sourceforge.net/downloads.html).
+
+Version
+-------
+The current version of OpenMind is 3.0. 3.0 adds many improvements, including:
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+* Support for one time passwords (OTP) to allow you to build single sign on from other applications
+* A portal to allow your customers access to key informaiton about their licenses and support tickets
+* Improved metrics for managing owned forum entries.
+* Improvements to how tag clouds are presented
+* Added perma-links/slugs
+* Added a compatibility matrix of product release versions
+* Re-implemented the searching using Thinking Sphinx for improved search capability and reliability
+
+
+License
+=======
+Distributed under the [GNU GPL license](http://openmind.sourceforge.net/license.html)

lib/openmind_version.rb

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 module OpenmindVersion
   # The version number for the application
-  VERSION = "2.6"
+  VERSION = "3.0"
 end