A big thank you from me to everyone who came along: Alex, Mark, Richard, William, Dickon, Peter, Miles, Chris and Osmosoft. It was a diverse group, whose interests in TiddlyWiki come from many different directions. There was much in common in terms of the techniques people were using, and interestingly, there were some common threads in the goals and vision.
It was engrossing to drill down into some of the things people are doing with TiddlyWiki, and talk through some of our ambitions for the future. Richard's 16MB TiddlyWiki was a particular highpoint, as was Dickon talking about the rollout of TiddlyManuals to ordinary users. We're planning to hold these events regularly, with the next one on May 18th, and we'd love to see some more people. If you're interested in the TiddlyVerse, and able to get to London for an evening, mark the date in your diary. Matt Lucht will post some videos and photos of the event shortly, Cheers Jeremy On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Alex Hough <[email protected]> wrote: > First I'd like to thank the Osmosoft people for a very enjoyable day > yesterday at the TiddlyChat event. > > It was interesting to meet other non-osmo TiddlyUsers in the flesh > too. Unfortunately I was not astute enough to make notes of all the > names, I thought I'd start a thread, hopefully some gaps might get > filled in. > > 'Dark-matter' is the term Paul and Jeremy seem to use for stuff which > is out there that you don't know exists, and the first presenter would > be tagged as such if he found his way into a TW. Richard Drake would > also be tagged as an advanced user. A wiki purist, enthusiast and > interviewer of Ward Cunningham, he's done away with tags in his huge > 16MB TW. The size of the TW was of particular interest to the > audience. It is a topic that often crops up on this group. Jerm made > gestures that if printed off on A4 and stacked on the floor it would > be the height of small child. > > Key to Richard's Tiddling technique is FNDs simple search plugin - > used on the TiddlyWiki.com site, but not shipped with your standard > issue TW. The plugin produces a tiddler containing links to tiddlers > containing the search term. But Richard has also made some other > modifications, including to how camel case text produces non existing > tiddlers and removes the need for double brackets. It was also > interesting that he's replaced the default 'this tiddler doesn't > exist' text to incorporate an external link to a google search based > on the title of the new tiddler. He's said he's share his plugin - > code name whitespace - with the group at some point. > > Chris Dent showed two of his projects based on TiddlyWeb. > Manifestopheles has a linking mechanism that doesn't require double > brackets, so text is stored as clean text. The second thing he showed > was a way of writing tiddlers to TiddlyWeb using a text editor. As a > non-technical person, it was good to see these projects being > explained. I would not be able to evoke them on my machine, as they > both seem to make use of the terminal, an interface closer to the > computers internal workings. > > I am more familiar with Dickon Bevington's Treatment Manual project > [3]. The project is an open source manual for mental health > practitioners. Its now in use in a handful of projects. Dickon > explained the interesting aspect enabled by TiddlyWiki is that teams > can take the core of the manual and then adapt it to suit their > situation. > > I showed OMM, my work on an organisational maturity model I've been > developing with SCiO, a systems practitioners group, and 64 Tiddlers > an experimental project involving non-linear thinking and the Knight's > move. Neither project is really ready to be put on the web, and the > opportunity to talk about a project beforehand and show it to a small > group was really valuable to me. > > <Gap id='please help fill in'> > Mark came from Holand on the train - wow. > - he's intersted in serverside and http://wiki.tcl.tk > > Ribit - phone your wiki! > > Wiliam - social enterprise, evaluation of naratives, celicly > </gap> > > apploogies for typos and spelling > > Alex > > > [1]http://twitter.com/rdrake98 > [2] http://github.com/cdent/manifestopheles > [3] http://tiddlymanuals.tiddlyspot.com/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] http://www.tiddlywiki.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
