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Join long-time Tiki Administrator and Tiki Community Software Association board member, Marc Laporte, as he is interviewed on the FLOSS Weekly Podcast 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.tv. A live IRC chat room (http://irc.twit.tv) will also be available.

The 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share survey by water&stone is now open. 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.

An interview with Marc Laporte

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 Livre (Free Spirit Magazine) at http://www.revista.espiritolivre.org/?p=809. An English version of the interview is available at http://tiki.org/2010-06+Marc+Laporte+Interview+Espirito+Livre+Magazine.

This month marks the 8-year anniversary of the release of (what is now called) Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Since the initial release in October 2002, Tiki has grown from a wiki solution into a full-featured, web-based, content management solution.

To date, more than 200 people have contributed to the Tiki code-base, with hundreds more to other parts of the project (documentation, support, etc) making Tiki one of the largest open source projects in the world. With new code commits averaging every two hours, Tiki is in a continuous development cycle and its "wiki way" development process means that the community is very dynamic and agile.

Tiki logos, through the years.

Gatherings of Tiki Community members take place across the globe. These "TikiFests" are a chance for community members to plan, discuss, and code Tiki features (and socialize!). More than 50 events have occurred, with many more planned in the upcoming months.

Recent partnerships with Kaltura and BigBlueButton for collaborative videos and web conferencing, respectively, ensure that Tiki continues to move forward. The upcoming Tiki 6 release introduces a host of new features and enhancements.

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is now included in the Windows Web App Gallery and can be installed with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. Inclusion in the gallery means that millions of Windows users now have easier access to Tiki. Tiki was downloaded over 300 times from the gallery in the first 2 days.

To install Tiki from the Windows Web App Gallery, visit Microsoft Web Platform installer.

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware has been awarded a 2010 Bossie award (Best of Open Source Software) by InfoWorld, in the Applications category. InfoWorld's Best of Open Source Software Awards (aka the Bossies) is chosen annually by Test Center editors and reviewers, and recognize the best open source software for business users.

The editors called Tiki "a powerful, integrated, Web-based application" that can "build and maintain websites, wikis, groupware, CMSes, forums, blogs, and bug trackers, as well as make them multilingual."

The review continues, citing Tiki's "fine-grained role-based privilege system" as a differentiating factor against classic wiki models, such as MediaWiki. Read the full article on InfoWorld.com.

Alternatively you can read this article in German language (including the original slide show).

And don't forget to nominate Tiki for the Packt 2010 Open Source Awards!

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.