[xwiki-devs] XWiki @ FOSDEM 2013 - Wiki devroom

Hi guys, FYI I've just sent the following email for proposing a "wiki" devroom for FOSDEM 2013 (see https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html): ------ start here ------- Hi guys, Several members of the XWiki community (on behalf of other wiki communities too) would like to kindly ask for a devroom at FOSDEM. Here are the details: * Devroom name: What's next for Wikis? * Description: Wiki systems have been proven as an effective way for organizing information and for encouraging and improving collaboration. Wikipedia is among one of the most obvious examples, but wikis have provided solutions in different contexts such education, e-democracy and also in the enterprise domain. By gathering together the experts in open source wiki systems, the goal of this devroom is to start a discussion between the different wiki communities about the next features and ideas they're all working on, with the intent of cross-pollination and synergies between wikis. The topics can also be broadened to discuss what makes wikis different from other collaboration tools today. * Project URLs: In addition to XWiki (we can have 5-10 persons from the XWiki community), we've contacted the MediaWiki and Foswiki communities and they've both agreed to participate to this devroom already. - http://xwiki.org - http://foswiki.org/ - http://www.mediawiki.org/ - http://dokuwiki.org/ - http://moinmo.in/ - any other open source wiki community interested in participating, the more the merrier! * Preferred day: Saturday * Why should FOSDEM accept this proposal? Because FOSDEM is one of the few conferences in the world where people from various wiki open source communities can meet! And because wikis are still a hot topic but they need to reinvent themselves to not lose steam vs all the other types of collaboration tools out there today and a global discussion with the open souce wiki actors on this topic would help a lot. Thanks a lot -Vincent Massol http://about.me/vmassol XWiki open source committer ------ end here ------- I'll let you know if our devroom is accepted. Thanks -Vincent