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Journée de formation Tiki à Québec le 8 Décembre

GuyVigneault -

Une journée de formation pour Tiki aura lieu à Québec le 8 Décembre 2010. La journée Tiki à Québec est organisée par AFI Expertise et sera en français. Les personnes intéressées par les wikis, qui envisage de créer un site Tiki, qui en gère déjà un, ou qui sont prêts à commencer à personnaliser leur Tiki sont les bienvenus.

Tiki Featured in FLOSS Weekly Interview

Rick -

Join long-time Tiki Administrator and Tiki Community Software Association board member, Marc Laporte, as he is interviewed on the FLOSS Weekly PodcastQuestion on December 29.

The show will be taped live, with host Randal Schwartz, from 9:30am - 10:45am PDT (LA is UTC-8 hrs so it means it will be 17:30 in UK) and will be visible at http://live.twit.tvQuestion. A live IRC chat room (http://irc.twit.tvQuestion) will also be available.

See http://twit.tv/FLOSSQuestion for details.

TikiFest London Wrapup

Rick -
TikiFest London
TikiFest London ended last week, making several important contributions to Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. This code sprint saw:
  • Implementation discussions of a Tiki Project Management feature
  • Planning the Tiki Tracker Revamp
  • Exploration of the removal of deprecated features (such as PHPLayersMenu, Image Galleries, and Xajax)

For complete details of TikiFest London, see http://tiki.org/TikiFestLondon6Question.

Several other TikiFests are planned in the upcoming months, including the Summer 2011 Tiki Tour. See the Tiki Community calendar at http://info.tiki.org/CalendarQuestion and the main TikiFest page at http://tiki.org/tikifestQuestion for details.

Elsewhere in Europe, Tiki Community members are proud to announce the formation of the German Language Tiki Users Group. One of the first goals of this group will be to use Tiki's interactive translation feature to continue to improve the German version of Tiki. For details on the Tiki internationalization project, see http://i18n.tiki.orgQuestion. For more information on (or to join) the German Language User Group, see http://tiki.org/GLUGQuestion.

TikiFest Berlin Wrap-up

Rick -
TikiFest Berlin
The Tiki Community completed its most recent TikiFest (code sprint) in Berlin last week. TikiFest Berlin (co-located with WikiFestBLNQuestion Nov 12-14 in Berlin, Germany) provided an opportunity for Tiki developers, end-users, and supporters to meet and plan the future of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware.


Many topics were discussed and much work was done for the upcoming Tiki 6.1 release including:

  • Improving Tiki.org server infrastructure
  • Gentoo build for Tiki distribution
  • WYSIWYG strategy
  • Non-interactive TRIM (Tiki Remote Instance Manager)
  • Multi-level content and Tiki structures, based on perspectives and dynamic groups
  • Registration procedures for parent-child and teacher-student scenarios

Announcing the Release of Tiki 6

Rick -

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of Tiki 6. This version of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware represents hundreds of hours of work by dozens of members of the Tiki Community. Nearly 50 developers contributed more than 1,500 code changes for this release.

In addition to countless tweaks and updates, Tiki 6 includes several new, key features:

  • Extensive re-work and improvements to the Tiki blog, comments, spreadsheets and tracker features
  • Batch functions (via cron jobs)
  • Introduction of re-Captcha
  • Expanded support of ccLite community currencies
  • Integration with social networks such as Facebook
  • Improved WYSIWYG support
  • and much, MUCH more.

For complete information on all of the new features and functionality in this release, see http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki6Question.

Tiki 6 has been designated as the Long Term Support (LTS) version, replacing Tiki 3 LTS. Tiki 3 will reach end of life when Tiki 7.1 will be released (planned for April 2011). See the Project RoadmapQuestion for details.

You can download Tiki 6 directly from SourceForgeQuestion. Refer to the Tiki 6 release notesQuestion for additional information.

Support Tiki in the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Survey

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The 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share survey by water&stone is now openQuestion. The survey will be used to gather data for the third annual Open Source CMS Market Share Report. This is YOUR chance to help the Tiki Community grow.... and it only takes a few minutes. By participating in the survey, you can receive an advance copy of the final report.

While development and community activity has been quite high over the life of Tiki, (with 200+ code contributors, 800,000+ downloads, 50+ events, and such) until recently little effort had been put on Tiki branding and communications.

In the 2009 report, the authors stated that Tiki faces "...significant challenges in terms of brand strength and market share." The report went on say that "...it seems clear that if steps are not taken to stop the slide in interest levels and boost use, then the project faces significant challenges

In the past year, the Tiki Community has taken significant steps to improve the Tiki brand, visibility, and interest. Completing the survey and indicating your support for Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware will help to strengthen the Tiki Community.

Take the survey today, and support Tiki!

Release Candidate for Tiki 6 Now Available

Rick -

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Tiki 6.0 Release Candidate (RC1). The Tiki 6 release, originally scheduled for the end of October, has been delayed in order to include several important improvements, including:

  • Enhancements in WYSIWYG editing
  • WebDAV with PHP5 using CGI
  • Ajax refinements
  • User interface
  • Some regression bug fixes


You can download the RC directly from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/files/Tiki%206.x%20-Rigel-/Question . Although this RC is expected to be a true representation of the final Tiki 6.0, Tiki administrators are reminded that this is a release candidate version and may not be suitable for specific production environments.

See http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki6Question for more information on major enhancements and changes regarding this release.

Wiki Way Webware

Rick -

An interview with Marc Laporte

Marc Laporte, a long-time Tiki Admin and board member of the Tiki Software Community Association, recently spoke with Espírito LivreQuestion about Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Espírito Livre brings together free software enthusiasts and aims to grow the free software movement.


In the interview, Laporte discusses the history and future of Tiki, including what makes Tiki different, who should (and shouldn't) use Tiki, as well as Tiki's relationship with the open source community.

Read the full article (in Brazilian Portuguese) in the latest edition of Revista Espírito LivreQuestion (Free Spirit Magazine) at http://www.revista.espiritolivre.org/?p=809Question. An English version of the interview is available at http://tiki.org/2010-06+Marc+Laporte+Interview+Espirito+Livre+MagazineQuestion.

Tiki 6.0 Beta 3 Available for Download

Rick -

The Tiki Community has released the third beta for the upcoming Tiki 6.0 release. Tiki 6.0 beta 3 includes more than 80 code changes, bug fixes, and improvements.

You can download the beta directly from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/files/Tiki%206.x%20-Rigel-/Question. Tiki administrators are reminded that this is a beta version and is not intended to be used in a production environment.

See http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki6Question for information on major enhancements and changes in this release. Tiki 6 is scheduled for release at the end of October.

Announcing Tiki 6.0 Beta 2

Rick -

Moving closer to a final release, the Tiki Community is proud to announce the immediate availability of Tiki 6.0 beta 2. You can download the beta directly from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/files/Tiki%206.x%20-Rigel-/Question.

Since the release of Tiki 6 Beta 1, there have been more than 200 code changes, bug fixes, and improvements. Tiki administrators are reminded that this is a beta version and is not intended to be used in a production environment.

See http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki6Question for information on major enhancements and changes in this release. Tiki 6 is scheduled for release at the end of October.