Entries Tagged as ‘TikiWiki’

March 23, 2009

2nd TikiWiki Workshop at Seneca, if you missed the 1st

Learn how to build data driven applications using TikiWiki at Seneca College @ York Campus rmS2047. Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 6:30pm – 8:30pm. This is a follow up from the previous introductory one last week. Feel free to attend even if you missed the first no prior TikiWiki experience is required for this one. This [...]

March 20, 2009

TikiWiki Google Summer of Code Projects Open for Student Registrations Monday

It’s Google Summer of Code time again! Student registrations will be accepted from Monday. Here’s the list of projects for TikiWiki: http://dev.tikiwiki.org/GSOC+Ideas+2009 For more information about Google Summer of Code: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs

September 14, 2008

Vertical solutions based on TikiWiki – An opportunity for open source entrepreneurs and consultants

The June 2008 report on “Collaboration and Social Media” by the Gilbane Group suggested that “the future of social media focuses on delivering vertical solutions complete with rich domain expertise.” This is a view that I have found to repeatedly ring true. This further reinforces my belief that open source collaboration solutions are inherently superior [...]

June 15, 2008

Firefox’s revolutionary community approach to customer support

As the launch of Firefox 3 draws close, it is time to reflect on how revolutionary open source has been and how it still has so much to grow into. Being part of the Firefox support team has provided a brand new perspective that brings the open source way of doing things into a non-software [...]

March 23, 2008

Speed geeking my latest open source passion (Kaltura) at Penguin Day

At Penguin Day New Orleans, in response to request for speed geeking volunteers, I decided to show my latest open source passion – Kaltura. Kaltura is the world’s first open source collaborative video platform. This is quite awesome stuff. Think of it as a YouTube type system for embedding videos on a webpage with the [...]

January 17, 2008

TikiWiki Listed in EContent Top 100

TikiWiki has been named to the Seventh Annual EContent 100. The annual list contains the companies “that matter most in the digital content industry.” The wealth of new features and enhancements contained in the upcoming Release 1.10 will no doubt maintain Tiki’s position as one of the best digital content and social media platforms. Read [...]

January 16, 2008

Wikify your support forum and knowledge base

The participatory nature of a wiki makes it extremely suitable for the construction of customer support knowledge bases. But what if you need a support forum as well? The answer is TikiWiki, a wiki with forums built in. Link directly to wiki pages, e.g. ((Safe Mode)), instead of using URLs. Provide single-sign on and an [...]

December 14, 2007

Support.mozilla.com keeping me busy

The support.mozilla.com project currently in beta (powered by TikiWiki) is keeping me busy. But I’m pleased to say that improvements are being made at a healthy pace. It’s always nice to receive thanks and accolades from happy users. The wiki now has a staging and approval system. Think of it as having pairs of pages [...]

November 2, 2007

Introducing WikiNetNav

Social network analysis of wiki pages, their authorship, and relationships between contributors currently utilize graph-based visualizations. However, there is no readily available tool for end-users to visualize these networks. WikiNetNav is a new tool for wiki end-users to explore social networks implied through co-authorship, review changes made by other users, and to personalize and visualize [...]

November 2, 2007

Social Network Analysis of TikiWiki

Videos and slides of my presentation at the Free Software and Open Source Symposium on social network analysis of the TikiWiki open source community are now available.