Title: Our History
If you look at the origins of the Apache ESME project, you will find that
the origin was in a [plurk (a micro-blogging site like Twitter) conversation ](http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Community/Plurk+conversation)
that at some point moved to the [SAP SDN wiki|http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Community/Enterprise+Social+Messaging+Experiment+%28ESME%29]
. The project then moved to Assembla and then Google Code.
The team involved was originally primarily made of individuals associated
with the SAP community but has since expanded to include others from
outside that community. The global team includes members from a variety of
different nations ranging from Austria, India, Spain, Norway, Bulgaria, UK,
Germany, the States etc.

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#### Highlights

* [2009 Siemens press release ](http://www.it-solutions.siemens.com/b2b/it/en/global/press/press-releases/2009/Pages/enterprise-social-messaging-experiment.aspx)

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#### Videos

*Redmonk TV - The Making of ESME*

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*In his keynote at the&nbsp;SAP UK & Ireland User Group Conference
2009,&nbsp; analyst Ray Wang compared ESME and Chatter.*
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*ESME at Demo Jam Bangalore 2008*
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*ESME at Demo Jam Berlin 2008*

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*ESME at Demo Jam Las Vegas 2008*

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*ESME - Interview with Dennis Howlett*

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