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Looking for an easy way to contribute to the Tiki Community? Why not to help translate Tiki into your native language?

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware already ships with full multilingual support, including translations for more than 35 languages. However, some of these translations are incomplete. This is where you can help! With Tiki's interactive translation feature, updating and improving translation strings is quick and easy.

All interested Tiki Community members are invited to help maintain and update the translations. With an active development cycle and lots of new features planned for Tiki 6, there is plenty of work to do.

For information on the status of Tiki translations, see http://tikiwiki.org/i18n+status . For information on using the Tiki Interactive Translation feature, see http://doc.tikiwiki.org/interactive+translation.

By nominating Tiki, you'll also be automatically entered into a prize draw for an Amazon Kindle from Packt Publishing. Nominations end September 17.

See http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home for more information.

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://tv.tiki.org/tiki-kaltura_video.php?mixId=0_u4e00k7x.

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."

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 or visit http://tikiwiki.org/FloridaTikiUserGroup.

RoCoCo 2010

Several members of the Tiki Community, including Marc Laporte, Nelson Ko, Louis-Philippe Huberdeau, Renoir Boulanger, Tanea Castro Durand and Daniel Gauthier, will be in attendance. For more information about RoCoCo 2010, see http://rococo2010.org.

In addition the wealth of new features in Tiki5, this release also marks the start of a new branding and marketing strategy. You can learn more about the plan on the Tiki Branding web site (http://branding.tikiwiki.org). From the Branding website:

The purpose of this guide is to give you an overview of the key elements of the new design and a few examples of how to apply it.

A brand is more than just a logo. A brand communicates everything people think of (such as quality, value for money and trustworthiness) ... Thus the Tiki brand represents a set of values and principles that define us and should guide the way we all behave.

Please take a look through the Branding website. Be sure to post your comments, suggestions, and ideas. We're always looking for input from Tiki community members. If you have ideas, please consider joining a Tiki Team.

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 open 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.

Online Collaboration BigBlueButton (http://bigbluebutton.org/) is an open source, real-time collaboration tool that includes audio, video, screensharing, and chat components. Initial development includes single sign on from Tiki and an extension of Tiki permissions to create, join, and invite users to meetings.

Long-term plans include tight integration with many Tiki features such as scheduling events with the Tiki calendar, saving chats and video recordings to Tiki file galleries, and using Tiki payment system for paid events.

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

With a code commit (change) every two hours 1 it can be difficult to keep up with all the new features, fixes, and changes in Tiki. It is important to stay "in the loop" of these changes, whether you are an "early adopter" getting updates directly from the SVN repository or simply a member of the Tiki Community interested ins seeing what's coming in future releases.

Now, in addition to the commit mailing list, we've created a Twitter stream that contains this information. You can follow all the code updates at @tikiwiki_code.

Be sure to follow the other Tiki Twitter accounts too!

• @TikiWiki — The official Tiki Twitter account
• @TikiWikiSearch — Automated Twitter search of all things Tiki-related.
• Tikifest — Channel to follow Tiki meetings (known as Tikifests)

1. http://cia.vc/stats/project/tikiwiki

TikiWiki (http://tikiwiki.org) continues to be one of the most active projects on SourceForge, consistently ranking in the top 15 in terms of SVN code commits (http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/rank_history.php?group_id=64258&ugn=tikiwiki).

According to Ohloh.net, Tiki has "one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh." (http://www.ohloh.net/p/tikiwiki/factoids/). This diverse and extensive community effort has fueled more than 800,000 downloads (http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=64258&ugn=tikiwiki&type=prdownload) plus countless one-click installations through control panel applications such as Fantastico.

The Tiki Admin Team is pleased to announce the nomination of a new member: Jonny Bradley.

Jonny is a very active community member. He is known for his wit, nice user interfaces and for championing the use of jQuery in Tiki.