Martin Cleaver, masterfully.

Last month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday marked a turning point. For the next 3 months in 2008 we have speakers lined up! To date I have usually lead a conversation based on my work with clients but I much prefer to not have to be center-stage all of the time.

Talks at Toronto Wiki Tuesdays usually last about 30 minutes and speakers will anchor the night in something of personal interest. (About Wikis, of course). As we have a private floor at Rower’s pub we get there about 6:45pm for food, and have the talk from 7:30 and discussions thereafter.

I am pleased to announce the following confirmed line-up:

• Feb 12th: Connie Crosby - Educator / advocator in Libraries and Legal firms - talking about the use of Wikis in law firms
• March 12th: Damir Sudarevic - industrial design specialist - “How to make a stupid website a little bit better” (working title!)
• 2nd Tuesday in Apr: Adrian Fritsch - to be decided.

While Toronto Wiki Tuesday is not in itself technology-centric, wikis would not exist without the technology that powers them. Mike Pilling (a regular at Toronto Wiki Tuesdays) of HighProductivity.ca introduced me to Tiki a few months ago and since then I’ve met more users and seen more sites using this extensive php-based wiki platform.

During the day on 12th Feb, Toronto Wiki Tuesday is hosting TikiFest, (a codefest for Tiki) based on the popular open source project Tikiwiki and chaired by Marc Laporte who will be down from Montreal.

TikiFest Toronto (Facebook event invite) continues their roadshow. To quote Marc:

At the January 08 Codefest held in Montreal, the topics were “Microformats” and “Wiki Translation”. For Microformats, a number of CMS added or enhanced support for it, and support for hCalendar was added to TikiWiki. For “Wiki Translation”, we had a workshop to define user requirements and the overall plan of the project.

To date, topics tentatively lined up for the TikiFest are as follows:

• WikiNetNav
• Wiki Translation
• Improve integration between image gallery and wiki pages

But refer to
TikiFest Toronto wiki page for the latest version. (You should indicate if you are going).

Rowers will be opening the pub early, at 11am, for us on the 12th so we can get started. We’ve promised to eat there to say thank you. They have both a projector and wifi, so its a neat setup.

I hope to see you there!

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