The deadline for submissions to the Wikis devroom at FOSDEM has been extended until the end of DECEMBER 15
See https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/wikis-devroom/2013-December/000012.html Submit your proposals! On 10/07/2013 12:58 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > Spread the news! > https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/wikis-devroom/2013-October/000000.html > > 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). > -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
