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What I'll talk about

• Mass collaboration and the Wiki Way
• Tiki Wiki+CMS+Groupware
• The Tiki Model

• 2 audiences
  • When/why you should pick Tiki for your next project
  • How you should look into the Wiki Way and the Tiki model to make your own project more collaborative

Mass collaboration

Wikipedia

Wikis: what for?

• Wikipedia
• Documentation
• Collaboration > flexible, simple freeform project management
• Corporate Intranet or extranet
• Great for unstructured content, can be structured with categories and tags
• Effective document workflow

Why a wiki?

Because email doesn't scale

What happens when...

• ...you apply the Wiki Way to software development for over 10 years with over 250 code contributors?
• ...dogfooding is a core value?
• ...everyone collaborates on an integrated code base?

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

• Tightly Integrated Knowledge Infrastructure
• Combination CMS + Wiki + Groupware
• Free source software (LGPL)
• 1 000 000+ downloads so far
• Translated into 40+ languages
• 1000+ pages of documentation
• Runs on standard PHP/MySQL making web hosting easy and inexpensive
• Over a million lines of code (including 3rd party libraries)
• A new code commit every two hours
• "This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh." source: http://www.ohloh.net/p/tikiwiki/factoids/
• But mostly...

Hundreds of built-in features

• Over 1000 settings/options in the admin panel!
• As far as we know, the Open Source Web application with the most built-in features. Other popular apps have a different model: small core + loads of functionality in 3rd party add-ons.

But...

• No hunting around to find the best 3rd party module
• No needing to re-install 3rd party modules at every upgrade, hoping they all still work!
• Because, in Tiki, everything is built-in and developers collaborate on and extend features, instead of just cooperating around a core (when they are not just outright competing...). And upgrades are easy!
• Do you have two wiki pages for the same thing? No. Why would it be so for features?
• More later about the model, let's describe some features!

Permissions & groups

• Users can be in any number of groups
• Groups can be included in groups
• Registration system
• Over 200 permissions, which can be:
• System-wide (global)
• by item (object)
• by category (workspaces)

Wiki engine

• Powerful wiki syntax
• Powerful version history and diff engine
• Book and table of content
• Email notification of changes
• Advanced plugins
• Advanced translation synchronization

Tracker & form generator & reports

• Create custom application
• Bug tracker, application forms, contact forms, etc.
• Can create reports in wiki pages
• Multilingual
• Can link to other trackers
• 20+ field types: text field, text area, checkbox, numeric field, drop down, radio buttons, user selector, date and time, image, category, email, auto-increment, Google Maps, computed field, attachment, etc.

Calendar

• Several calendars
• iCal
• Recurring events
• RSS feeds
• Distinct permissions

Blog & news articles

• Several blogs
• Topics
• Tags & categories
• RSS feeds
• Permissions
• Can use wiki syntax

Discussion forums

• Threaded or flat forums
• Mailing list integration
• Can use wiki syntax
• File Attachment
• Email notification of replies

File & image galleries

• Hierarchical galleries
• Check-in/Check-out/lock
• Categories for files
• Permissions
• Watch (notification of change by email)

Multilingual

• Translated to 35+ languages
• Wiki has awesome i18n change tracking
• Wiki-translation.com

Profiles.Tiki.org

• Value of a free source project
  • Beyond code: the community and the experience
  • Combining the different features, producing new benefits never imagined by the authors
  • How to share this knowledge?
• Profiles to configure your Tiki
  • On wiki pages (collaborative, version history, etc.)
  • Can be used not just at install, but at any time and can be combined
  • Not just for settings, but also for data
  • Since there is no extra code, can be designed for very specific, long tail uses
• We can have hundreds of profiles for an out-of-the-box experience, with a single code-base!

Tiki Use Cases

• Online community / association / club / special interest group / NGO (A)
• International, multilingual project (A)
• Advanced portal / news site (A)
• Corporate web site (A)
• Groupware Wiki / Corporate Wiki / Corporate Intranet / Team project (A)
• Public Wiki (A)
• Group knowledge base / Knowledge Management (KM) / institutional memory (A)
• Product or software documentation and support (A)
• Customer extranet (A)
• Multilingual wiki (A)

• A is better, Ratings factoring in the necessary effort to configure.

Tiki Use Cases (part 2)

• Shopping Cart & payments
• WebDAV support
• Spreadsheet upgraded to jQuery
• jQueryS5 Slideshow
• Searchable admin panels (!)
• Token Access
• MySQL replication
• Advanced Rating & Metrics Dashboard
• Performance enhancements (front & back-end)

• Release date: April 2010 http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki5

Tiki Use Cases (part 3)

• Event Management, Conference Management & planning (C)
• Blog (one author) (C)
• Document Management System (DMS) (C)
• SourceForge / Gforge type site (C)
• E-commerce / Shopping cart (C)
• E-democracy (C)
• E-learning / Learning Management System (LMS) / classroom / course management system (CMS) (D)
• Customer / Contact / Constituent relationship management (CRM) (D)
• Bibliography (D)
• Traditional Project Management (PM) with Gantt charts, etc (D)
• Social networking / Job board / Dating site / hospitality exchange / Car Pooling (D)
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP) / Accounting (D)

• E is worst, Ratings factoring in the necessary effort to configure.

Major enhancements in 3

• Webservices
• Semantic wiki links and mind mapping
• Tiki Remote Instance Manager (TRIM) (for wikifarms)
• Revamp of install and upgrade scripts
• Profiles for easy configuration
• JQuery added as experimental
• Zend Framework
• Has been picked as Long Term Support (LTS)

• Release date: May 2009 http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki3

Major enhancements in 4

• Google Summer of Code 2009
  • Workspaces & Perspectives
  • Kaltura integration (Collaborative video editing)
  • MediaWiki convertor
• JQuery added as default
• Revamp of edit interface
• PDO as default
• GroupMail
• Memcached
• Multi-domain support

• Release date: November 2009 http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki4

Major enhancements in 5

• Shopping Cart & payments
• WebDAV support
• Spreadsheet upgraded to jQuery
• jQueryS5 Slideshow
• Searchable admin panels (!)
• Token Access
• MySQL replication
• Advanced Rating & Metrics Dashboard
• Performance enhancements (front & back-end)

• Release date: April 2010 http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki5

Major enhancements in 6

• HTML5 (Canvas, etc)
• Integration with BigBlueButton (Chat/Voice/video/screensharing)
• Improved CRM and Shopping Cart (started in Tiki5)
• Smarty 3?

• What do you want to see?

• http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap
• Release date: October 2010 http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki6

The Tiki model

• Wiki community
• Wiki way participation to the code
• All-in-one codebase
• Inherent synchronized releases
• Lots of features, but no duplication
• Dogfood
• Scheduled releases (twice per year)

• tiki.org/Model

Benefits & challenges

• Offers benefits
  • Tons of features, without duplication, excellent code re-use and code review, more collaboration, tight integration, easy upgrades, excellent interaction between features, etc.
  • Permits huge changes between versions because we don't have to worry about breaking 3rd party extensions.
• But does bring challenges
  • Huge code base to maintain.
  • Admin panels
    • hundreds of features
    • with a total of over 1000 settings/options! (we had to add a search!)
  • Learning curve: 1000+ pages of documentation
  • What should be sensible defaults?

3 things...

• ...I want you to remember about this talk in 6 months
  • The Wiki Way is not just for Wikipedia
  • Tiki is an all-in-one solution
  • The Tiki community eats its own DogFood, and welcomes you.

Questions?

• Tiki.org
• Wiki-translation.com

• Doubts about the Tiki model?
  • Tiki.org/Model
• But mostly:
  • Tiki.org/Download

Thank you