knotes is available in version 0.8 beta
See this post I've just made to our KNotations development blog knotes on source-forge is up-to-date at version 0.8 and seems to install and work well.
knotes is finally available in a mature and highly usable beta, after much, much work - and a huge amount of detailed testing and feedback, especially from our colleagues in the NGRF site/project and from Graham Attwell. Many thanks are due for their patient and insightful feedback!
To quote the KNotations post:
Last week, we completed pushing the recent improvements to knotes into the CVS version and tarballs at the knotes sourceforge area. We've been intensively testing in our own user communities as well as in a variety of test installations. It seems to just work, and end-users seem to just get how to use it, so we feel we're approaching a really useful product. To reflect this, we've incremented the version number to 0.8. Well done to Steve and to our beta testers!
Still to-do are the writing of better admin documentation and end-user help, and the provision of developer forums, issue-tracking, etc. We're attending to those requirements as quickly as other work allows.
We are confident now that other Plone admin folks should be able to install knotes easily and make good use of it to add dynamism, discussion and user-expression to Plone sites. Please do try it out and let us know of any issues you encounter.
We're also confident that knotes with Plone provides a rich and flexible platform for experimental projects looking into variations on the theme of blogging - into uses in learning and community building where the basic behaviours and building blocks of blogging need to be enhanced or contextusalised. That's why we built it, and we're already starting to make progress with some ideas of out own that make use of knotes 'plus'.
If you are an educational researcher or community developer, please get in touch with us and share your ideas; we may be able to help. We're particularly keen to explore lightweight services-oriented approaches in the "web2.0" style - adding microformats, integrating with social bookmarking, etc. We are also eager to enhance the profile-building and user-glu aspects of the knotes member-profile, and to explore the use of knotes + Plone for e-portfolios and personal learning environments.
knotes version 0.8 beta is available on Sourceforge and seems to "just work"
See the knotes Sourceforge pages for version 0.8 beta, or download it below. It's been a long haul, but we have made dramatic usability improvements, have removed almost all dependencies, and knotes seems to install and just work in Plone2.0 and Plone 2.1. Along the way, we've also added many features to make knotes weblogging and discussion easy and expressive. We've begun posting regular updates to the KNotations development blog, to document features, how-tos and progress. Please subscribe to the 
RSS from KNotations if you want to track developments and follow those documentation notes.
In order to help those who are thinking of using KNotes as a product, we have made a sandbox site in which you can get used to managing and using KNotes: knotes.net/sandbox. The site is just a stub for playing in now; we'll try to refine it in April 2006 now that we've more or less finished core work on knotes.. Also note that the most stable bug free version of KNotes can be downloaded from http://knotes.sourceforge.net. This is a nightly built tarball. Steve will upload the other dependencies here as well. Please contact us if you encounter issues installing or administering knotes.
