The most recent TikiFest recently ended in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) on July 18. At this TikiFest, the second in Barcelona, more than 20 Tiki developers, consultants, and end-users met (including others via video conference) to work to improve and upgrade Tiki features, as well as to discuss the future of Tiki development.

Led by long-time Tiki Community members (including some board members of the Tiki Software Community Association) Marc (marclaporte), Louis-Philippe (lph), Jean-Marc (jyhem), Jonny (jonnyb) and Xavi (xavi), great progress was made for the next major Tiki release. Tiki 6, planned for October 2010), will include many of the items discussed and coded during this TikiFest, such as:

• Payment system using “CCLite” (a free software web application to support Community Currency management within and among barter networks)
• Fixing encoding issues (when upgrading Tiki under certain specific scenarios)
• Cron-like features (such as automatically changing tracker item status and sending email users if their tracker items do change within a specific amount of time. This is especially useful for Barter networks and Bug Trackers.
• Identifying ways (through the Newsletters and Group Watches featurse) to allow Tiki site administrators to easily distribute content to users, while allowing the users an option to unsubscribe
• New profile “Easy Blog” to easily install common blogging features (such as blog archives, image headers, etc.) for Tiki sites (http://profiles.tikiwiki.org/Easy+Blog)

For details on what was discussed, see http://tikiwiki.org/TikiFestBarcelona2. For more information on the Tiki Community release schedule, see http://dev.tikiwiki.org/RoadMap.

In addition to code development, the TikiFesters took the opportunity to socialize amongst themselves and sample all that Barcelona has to offer, such as:

• Mediterranean beaches
• Local and international cuisine
• Local beverages (to help stimulate discussions!)
• Discovering hidden spots in Barcelona city and exploring tbhe local history
• Enjoying the gorgeous city sites

For complete details on Barcelona TikiFest, see http://tikiwiki.org/TikiFestBarcelona2.

Upcoming TikiFests

A tradition in the Tiki community, a TikiFest is a meeting between Tiki community members (that usually only meet online). This is an opportunity to socialize, code and discuss about wiki technology and culture, etc.

Upcoming TikiFests include:

• August 15, 2010 in Ottawa, Canada (and online)
• August 27, 2010 in Montreal, Canada
• October 3, 2010 in New York City, USA
• November 14, 2010 in Berlin, Germany
• August 2, 2011 in Haifa, Israel
• For more information, see the Tiki Community calendar at http://info.tikiwiki.org/tiki-calendar.php.

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The most recent TikiFest recently ended in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) on July 18. At this TikiFest, the second in Barcelona, more than 20 Tiki developers, consultants, and end-users met (including others via video conference) to work to improve and upgrade Tiki features, as well as to discuss the future of Tiki development.

Led by long-time Tiki Community members (including some board members of the Tiki Software Community Association) Marc (marclaporte), Louis-Philippe (lph), Jean-Marc (jyhem), Jonny (jonnyb) and Xavi (xavi), great progress was made for the next major Tiki release. Tiki 6, planned for October 2010), will include many of the items discussed and coded during this TikiFest, such as:

• Payment system using “CCLite” (a free software web application to support Community Currency management within and among barter networks)
• Fixing encoding issues (when upgrading Tiki under certain specific scenarios)
• Cron-like features (such as automatically changing tracker item status and sending email users if their tracker items do change within a specific amount of time. This is especially useful for Barter networks and Bug Trackers.
• Identifying ways (through the Newsletters and Group Watches featurse) to allow Tiki site administrators to easily distribute content to users, while allowing the users an option to unsubscribe
• New profile “Easy Blog” to easily install common blogging features (such as blog archives, image headers, etc.) for Tiki sites (http://profiles.tikiwiki.org/Easy+Blog)

For details on what was discussed, see http://tikiwiki.org/TikiFestBarcelona2. For more information on the Tiki Community release schedule, see http://dev.tikiwiki.org/RoadMap.

In addition to code development, the TikiFesters took the opportunity to socialize amongst themselves and sample all that Barcelona has to offer, such as:

• Mediterranean beaches
• Local and international cuisine
• Local beverages (to help stimulate discussions!)
• Discovering hidden spots in Barcelona city and exploring tbhe local history
• Enjoying the gorgeous city sites

For complete details on Barcelona TikiFest, see http://tikiwiki.org/TikiFestBarcelona2.

Upcoming TikiFests

A tradition in the Tiki community, a TikiFest is a meeting between Tiki community members (that usually only meet online). This is an opportunity to socialize, code and discuss about wiki technology and culture, etc.

Upcoming TikiFests include:

• August 15, 2010 in Ottawa, Canada (and online)
• August 27, 2010 in Montreal, Canada
• October 3, 2010 in New York City, USA
• November 14, 2010 in Berlin, Germany
• August 2, 2011 in Haifa, Israel
• For more information, see the Tiki Community calendar at http://info.tikiwiki.org/tiki-calendar.php.

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The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of its first promotional video: How to get help.

In this video, recorded in March 2010, Gary Cunningham-Lee explains how new Tiki Community members can get help with their Tiki sites. Gary is a long-time Tiki contributor and a member of the Tiki Software Community Association.

Watch the complete video at: http://bit.ly/ddczzU .

A series of video clips, released under a Creative Commons license, will be made available for interested parties. Daniel Gauthier, a member of the Tiki Community and the filmmaker of these clips says, “I’ve created these video clips for a very specific purpose: To help developers, technology decision makers and companies like ISPs who normally know about Open Source Development projects understand the richness of the Tiki Community.”

Three to five video clips will be released in the near future, each lasting three to four minutes. These “info-clips” are interviews with members of the Tiki community. In each clip, the audience learns about more about Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, the Tiki Community and its “Wiki Way” model of software development.

Mr. Gauthier adds, “What a great way to learn about Open Source Development. Tiki Wiki is a dynamic eco-system. It grows so fast and so strong that one day, I believe it will be adopted by many more Fortune 500 companies.”

The videos also showcase the Tiki integration with Kaltura (http://www.kaltura.org/), an open source, community supported online video and rich-media solution. See http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Video for details on the Tiki+Kaltura integration.

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If you are a Tiki user, administrator, or developer in Florida, USA, then you are invited to connect with your fellow Tiki-ers and help form the Florida Tiki User Group.

Recently a group of active Tiki Community Members, including Kimberly Fink (aka kimberlyf) and Ben Eason met to begin organizing a local users group for Tiki advocates in Florida. The group plans to meet periodically (both in-person and virtually), to share their experiences, learn how to improve their Tiki sites, and maybe even organize some TikiFests.

To learn more about the group, including how to start your own local Tiki user group, contact Kimberly Fink (http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-user_informatio…) or visit http://tikiwiki.org/FloridaTikiUserGroup.

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Hot on the heels of Tiki 5.0, the Tiki community is proud to announce the releases of Tiki 4.3 and 3.6LTS. Both versions included primarily fixes and patches. Users of Tiki 4.x and 3.x are encouraged to upgraded to this new release.

• Theme generator
• Learning management system
• Extended work on shopping carts
• Community currencies system
• Upgrade to Smarty 3
• Support of HTML5

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The latest generation of Tiki is now available. This version, release 5.0, includes 3129 code contributions by more than 40 members of the Tiki community and features lots of new and improved functionality, including:

• Shopping cart, group subscriptions and payments
• Workspaces & perspectives: for efficient partitioning of large projects, with permission based dynamic content & preference filtering
• BigBlueButton web-conferencing integration (audio/video/chat/screensharing)
• WebDAV access to file galleries
• Performance improvements
• Advanced rating and scoring system,
• Improved translation/multilingual support – i18n
• Spreadsheet now using jQuery
• New themes (skins)

For complete information, see http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Tiki5.

Tiki Branding Initiative

The Tiki 5.0 release also introduces a new Tiki branding strategy. The official name of the project changes from TikiWiki CMS/Groupware to Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Additionally, a new logo is being introduced to help unify the project’s vision, mission, and values. All Tiki community members are encouraged to help grow the Tiki brand. For complete information, see http://branding.tikiwiki.org.

Tiki Community Calendar

The Tiki Community calendar is now online at http://tikiwiki.org. This calendar lists upcoming events with presentations about Tiki, given by Tiki community members. The calendar also lists the upcoming TikiFests — community-driven events — in Montreal, Barcelona, New York City, Ottawa, and more. For complete information on TikiFests, see http://tikiwiki.org/tikifest.

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Tiki Community Members Active at Make Web Not War 2010

Several Tiki community members will be active participants at the upcoming Make Web Not War 2010 (MWNW), a Canadian cross-platform web conference that takes place May 27, 2010 in Montréal, Canada (http://www.webnotwar.ca/).

Tiki is a Community Partner of the event and will be featured as one of six web application demos during the Ignite Presentations (http://www.webnotwar.ca/schedule/).

Join us at the conference and meet developers from Tiki (including Tiki Administrator Marc Laporte) and many other projects!

Tiki + Microsoft IIS Server Background

Community work continues towards getting Tiki listed on the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Gallery in order to make Tiki installations and upgrades on a Microsoft server as easy as possible. This is part of the overall Tiki strategy of improving Platform independence.

In this video Marc-André Lanciault, leader of the ImpressCMS project, talks with Marc Laporte, a Tiki community administrator, and Wade Hilmo from Microsoft about integrating open source CMS systems on Microsoft IIS Web servers. This video was recorded on May 12, 2010, during the Confoo conference.

Make Web Not War is part of Mondev Open Source Week, which includes several events including Webcom Montreal 2010, where Marc is scheduled to present “A Wiki for your organization: Why and How?”

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While beta testing of the upcoming Tiki 5.0 release is well underway, the Tiki community continues to grow with two exciting new features: Video and Online Collaboration. The community is actively “dogfooding” these features — all community members are invited to join and learn more

Video Collaboration

Kaltura (http://www.kaltura.org/) is an  source, community supported online video and rich-media solution. Support for Kaltura was begun in Tiki 4 with the ability to configure your Kaltura registration information within Tiki, and a Tiki wiki plugin to embed Kaltura media in a wiki page.

In the future, Tiki developers are adding the ability to remix videos, specify specific user access and permissions, and tight integration with Tiki file galleries.

See http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Video for details on this integration.

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The Beta release of the latest generation of Tiki CMS/Groupware is now available. This 5.0 Beta includes many new features and functionality, including:

• New themes (skins)
• Many fixes and updates
• Beta release of Tiki workspaces
• Beta release of shopping cart and payments

Tiki Community members are encouraged to download and explore this new release. You can obtain the Beta (as well as all other Tiki releases) from http://tikiwiki.org/download. For information on this and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tikiwiki.org/roadmap.

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TIKIWIKI ANNOUNCES TIKI 5.0 ALPHA… AND MORE!

Tiki has released the first public build of the next-generation release of TikiWiki CMS/Groupware. Labeled as Tiki 5.0 Alpha, this latest release includes updates, fixes, and a host of brand new features including:

• Tiki workspaces
• Shopping cart and payments
• WebDAV connectivity
• New themes and skins

Tiki Community members, testers, and early adopters can download the 5.0 Alpha release from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/files/. Please note that this Alpha release is for testing only and should not be used for production sites. Daily builds are also available from http://dev.tikiwiki.org/Daily+Build.

Much of the final work for these new features was completed during the recent TikiFest in Montréal, Canada. TikiFests are a tradition of the TikiWiki community in which Tiki contributors who usually collaborate online, get an opportunity to meet in person. Future TikiFests are scheduled in Canada, Poland, Brazil, Germany, and the United States. Over 35 TikiFests have been held.

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