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Workspaces, a bit like project management, is a term which can mean different things to different people. It is not a feature like blog or discussion forum which is clearly defined and easy to code.

What a workspace should do really depends on the use case. So workspaces will be defined by profiles where depending how features are configured, they will generate a Tiki for one of the following scenarios (and new ones yet to be thought of!). These underlying features need to be flexible!



Workspace-type profiles

Software project spaces à la *Forge

Software project has hundreds of third party extensions (not Tiki model!). Each extension has file gallery, discussion forum, but trackers and some wiki pages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)
TikiForge

Enterprise or community Social Networking (emerging groups)

International association of X. Have central site but want to make it easier to have special interest groups and for people to regroup by interest, language, geography, etc.
Social_Networking

Project Management / business unit workspaces

50 000 person company. A dozen divisions, and hundreds of departments.
This extends to also having spaces where non-employees can participate to (external consultants, partners, customers, etc.)
Project_Management

Classrooms/Learning Management System (LMS)

One school has thousands of students, dozens of teachers, hundreds of classes.
Classroom

Multi-site deployment.

  • Election campaign. 100 candidates. Each candidate has individual website, with own domain name, and with local management. Yet, National level party can publish news on all or selected candidate sites.
  • Book publisher has a website for each book, with distinct domain and micro-communities for each, yet all managed in one Tiki.

WikiFarms / SaaS

Using Tiki as Software as a Service (SaaS) platform and easy way to create new spaces. myprojectA.wikifarm.com, myprojectB.wikifarm.com, etc.
http://tikiwiki.org/SWOT#Working_groups_Special_interest_groups_local_user_groups_p2p_leadership_D_

Marketplace

Tiki doesn't yet offer ecommerce. But if it did, marketplace is where anyone can setup a shop and sell (so emerging workspace), vs a single-source seller classic shopping cart.


Workspace features

To illustrate, here are features which are needed in various workspace types. (and thus why there is no one answer fits all and profiles are needed)
  • Can workspace admins manage user accounts (change password, change email) vs just add or remove from group
  • Can workspaces emerge and die on their own, or they need admin
  • etc.



Related links:
http://tikiwiki.org/SWOT#Working_groups_Special_interest_groups_local_user_groups_p2p_leadership_D_

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