July 2000, Jan Warnstam, webmaster at Roxen Internet Software in those days, started working on the first version of the Pike site. At the time, the site was built for Pike at Roxen by Roxen people, with the intention of marketing Pike to a wider audience. That goal is still today accounts for one of the primary purposes of the Pike site. July 2001, a year has passed and there has not been much time nor resources devoted to the endeavour, but now the Pike autodoc mark two project has finally started to show some results, and a beta Pike reference manual materializes. December 2001, it has been decided that Roxen Internet Software will donate Pike to IDA, and while not yet an official truth for the world for half a year, the work has already started on migrating the site, updating its content and putting together a new home for Pike - all shrouded in secrecy for the time being. From here on, the work force - while still technically about the same bunch of people - are IDA and IDA-to-be people. Spring 2002, there is lots of work in progress behind the curtains; Johan Sundström brings the next generation of the CVS Browser from community.roxen.com to the site. During the Pike hack, some of the last parts missing from the old Pike site are migrated to the new location. May 2002, Martin Nilsson boots the Xenofarm project, a full rewrite of AutoBuild, now in the widened scope of a generic client/server motor for driving cross-internet build, test or just about any form of distributed computing task. June 2002, the Roxen/IDA deal is finally struck, gets official status and the site is opened to the public at pike.ida.liu.se, just in time for announcing the first Pike conference in the reign of IDA held at Linköping University. We revisit the directory structure, adding this and that and cleaning up odds and ends, aiming for a more intuitive browsing experience while incorporating new content areas we were missing; the pike tutorial, a news archive, hosted applications and project pages, to mention a few. July 2002, Johan Sundström gets employed by IDA as a full-time web master (of this site and the RISE site), and we start to actively involve and encourage external contributors from the rest of the Pike community to take active part in the site work and projects on the site. This is also the month when the first project pages and community initiated projects start popping up on the site. There is Project Assimilation (collecting a link farm to Pike enabled tools, utilities and distributions, and encouraging Pike support in others too), a Pike RPM project, the pages about the site project itself and the application Xenofarm, now developed far enough for us to start looking for build machines to be run on. Roxen, Island, Lysator and ISY all donate machines to the Pike Xenofarm setup (Pikefarm for short) and a development version is setup elsewhere for evaluating the system. August 2002, we make preparations for the conference at the end of the month and keep sharpening Xenofarm, both in terms of its interfaces and looks - we already have early adopters for doing other distributed computing using the system and the Pike testing has again started to contribute to a more stable Pike. Not much work is left to do to go live on the Pike site itself. We also migrated the Pike FTP site to pike.ida.liu.se from its old location at ftp.roxen.com.