Dear Friends,
I'm writing to you (originally intended to some administrator os
wikimedia) after a suggestion by Luis Arias, of
Xwiki.org.
We (Andrea Sterbini, Marco Temperini and myself) are researchers in
Italian universities (AS and MT are computer scientists in Rome, and I
am a physicists in Florence).
AS is collaborating in the development of TWiki, and with MT is
interested in collaborative software and lazy management. I am mainly
interested in self-organization but I'm also developing web tools for
teaching.
We all are interested in wikis, in how the wiki technology may be used
in enterprises, formation and education and in the patterns that arise
among users.
We were thinking in concretizing our interests (mainly developed
extra-work) in an European project, with the goal of to studying some
real test cases (we have contributed in setting up a few of them, others
may be easily found), expecially where the wiki concept is unknown (and
Italy is particularly full of such examples).
An abstract of the project may be found at
http://www.complex.unifi.it/twiki/bin/view/Projects/ProgettoALACRE
There is a call of the European Community well suited for this goal
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/workprogramme/wp0506_en/2_5_9.htm
(Collaborative Working Environments)
But we miss international partners and it is quite late (the deadline is
the 21th of september).
However, we are intersted in carrying on this investigation. Since all
of you have a large experience on wikis, you may have suggestions and
comments that are welcome.
Best wishes
--
Franco Bagnoli <franco.bagnoli(a)unifi.it>
Dipartimento di Energetica & Centro Dinamiche Complesse
Universita' di Firenze, via S. Marta, 3 I-50139 Firenze, Italy.
Tel. +39 0554796592, fax: +39 0554796342