[wikis-devroom] Call for participation DEADLINE EXTENDED

[Quim Gil]

On 10/07/2013 12:24 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
> 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

The Wikis devroom organizers want to receive more proposals. This is why
we are extending the deadline until the end of DECEMBER 15.

Submit your proposals!

> 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).