Reminder:
Deadline: 30 November 2013
We have received only 5 proposals for the Wikis devroom (including all wiki related project, not only MediaWiki/Wikimedia). Hurry up!
If you plan to attend FOSDEM, please prepare a talk. Following the wiki spirit, we are only asking for the essential information related to your proposed session. Give us enough to decide. You will be able to polish the presentation if/when accepted.
The Wikis devroom at FOSDEM is a great opportunity. Take advantage of it! Besides, if we end up with 5 sessions or so we surely will not get any devroom next year.
Conclusion: please submit proposals!
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for participation: Wikis devroom at FOSDEM Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:58:42 -0700 From: Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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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).