We've succeeded in having a wiki devroom for FOSDEM 2014 (https://fosdem.org/2014/)! :) This means we have a full track for wikis and we're now organizing a Call for Participation. I hope to see a lot of proposals from the XWiki community. If you know other wiki communities please forward them this email so that they can participate. The more communities the better so that we can cross-pollinate. Thanks -Vincent Massol Begin forwarded message:

From: Quim Gil <[email protected]> Subject: [wikis-devroom] Call for participation Date: October 7, 2013 9:24:39 PM GMT+02:00 To: [email protected]

Wikis devroom - FOSDEM, Brussels, 1 & 2 February 2014

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

IN SHORT

We accept proposals for wiki related submissions. The formats accepted are 25min sessions or 5min lighting sessions. All proposals must be submitted via https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/

Deadline: 30 November 2013

Questions? Feedback? Willing to help? https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/wikis-devroom

BACKGROUND

Wikis are essential tools for online collaboration, open knowledge and free software. They are everywhere: from the mainstream Wikipedia to a myriad of public, academic and corporate knowledge bases and personal sites. And most of them are open source software.

Wikis became popular thanks to the edit button allowing users to create and modify text-based web pages easily. Over the years wikis have become more powerful, handling more content types, allowing better look & feel, championing localization and integrating (sometimes) with other tools. The development continues, with hundreds of professional and volunteer contributors specializing in this area.

There are also challenges: the competition from (mainly proprietary and corporate) social media and online office tools, keeping up with UX expectations from users, editors and sysadmins, compatibility across different wiki engines and other publishing tools, collaboration between wiki projects...

SCOPE

Wikis devroom is a place to showcase and discuss

* new features, especially exploring areas beyond plain text editing

* compatibility and integration with other tools and services

* lessons learned from deployments, surveys, research...

* cross-project collaboration

We want to focus on sessions for a technical audience including savvy editors. Basic introductions for end users and long tutorials are out of scope.

FORMAT

One day, one room. Most of the schedule will be filled with sessions of about 25 minutes that have gone through a call for participation.

We will have a WikiWiki Hour of lightning presentations (5 minutes each).

We will organize a panel session with representation of key wiki projects - the specific topic to be decided as we confirm the participants.

ORGANIZATION

Quim Gil (MediaWiki), Vincent Massol (XWiki) and Jean-Marc Libs (Tiki). _______________________________________________ wikis-devroom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/wikis-devroom