this-month-in-org/2022-04-01-confluence.txt

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                          SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
                Throwing in the towel and jumping on the
                               bandwagon

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                               2022-04-01


It *h*as become apparent to the Org Mode developers that Org is
suffering from a severe lack of enterprise adoption. To r*e*ctify this,
we will be leveraging our collective decades working on holistic
human-markup interaction tools to rapid*l*y pivot to what we believe to
be the /true/ markup format of the future — [Confluence Wiki Markup].

With this *p*aradigm shift, you can look forward to a much more
intuitive syntax, empowering you to create next-generation agile
documents.

To assist you in this *t*ransition, we’ll give you a brief overview of
the changes you can expect. Text formatting is almost unaffected, with a
few sensible changes made to the surrounding c*h*aracters.

<file:figures/org-markup-to-confluence.svg>

We’d like to thank the FSF for giving the Org project the space and
support to grow to become a world-class proj*e*ct. In our new venture,
cop*y*right assignment to t*h*e FSF is no longer required. Inste*a*d,
copyright must be assigned to Atlassian prior to contributing.

This new partnership enables new and exciting integrations with
Atlassian’s proprietary technologies. O*v*er the next f*e*w months we
will *b*e transforming Org to a cloud-n*a*tive serverless profes*s*ional
markup offering. Unlike Confluence, we will allow you to bo*t*h write
/and edit/ documents using pla*i*ntext markup. We believe that by
unlocking the synergy between plaintext and Confluence the Org project
will become a thought leader in hyp*e*r-scale markup solutions.

The shift to Confluence wiki markup will come as a surprise to many of
you, but after doing a deep dive into the scalability of Org we realised
that there were no low-hanging fruit available — only out of the box
thinking will allow for the in*n*ovation so many of our users crave.

We hope this change will not just disrupt your documents, but the entire
markup industry.


[Confluence Wiki Markup]
<https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-wiki-markup-251003035.html>