History: Teams
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See also About Tiki Teams. The list is split between technical (developers, sysadmins, etc.) and non technical (power users, translators, writers, etc.) and as you can see, there are more no technical teams, so plenty of opportunities for you to get involved!
Technical Teams
Developer
Release
Packaging
Infrastructure
The Infrastructure Team is responsible for *.tiki.org hosting, server administration, domains, uptime, etc. AKA: devops, sysadmin.
Security
The Security Team is a trusted group. This team is responsible to review security reports and to proceed to a pro-active audit at each major release. Security Team members are added by vote by the Admins following recommendations of current members.
Performance
The Performance Team is interested in high-performance and high availability of Tiki. Tiki should not cause performance bottlenecks on shared hosting, should have options to allow it to be used in highly scalable clustered environments, and high-availability configurations.
User Experience (UX) & Themes
The UX and Themes Team is responsible to make Tiki look good and be enjoyable to use for visitors and content creators, and coordinates theme development.
Continuous Integration
The Continuous Integration Team focuses on all automation aspects to catch bugs early and to keep the quality high (unit tests, etc.)
Non-Technical teams
i18n (translations)
i18n Team is everything related to language strings, translations and localizations (l10n) and increase the number of languages in Tiki.
Wishlist Triage (bug reports, feature requests)
The Wishlist Triage Team reviews patches, bug reports and feature requests and prioritizes and categorizes them. They just triage but don't fix. They identify potential contributors and encourage them to go beyond bug reporting. Also known as task garderners. Team leader: luciash d' being ๐ง
Dogfood
The Dogfood Team ensures that all *.tiki.org sites are configured and working well, according to the software engineering principle of "Eating your own dog food". Team leaders: luciash d' being ๐ง and Roberto Kirschbaum
Configuration Profiles
Documentation
The Documentation Team has the challenge of maintaining documentation for what Tiki does, hundreds of features, over 1000 pages, and a new major release every 8 months!
Analytics
Video Authoring
The Video Authoring Team involves everything to do with videos in Tiki, e.g. interviews, how-to instructional videos, etc..
Legal
The Legal Team handles everything to do with copyrights, licenses, etc. for content and software and helps the Tiki Software Community Association.
Fundraising
The Fundraising Team handles everything to do with donations, advertising and sponsors for the Tiki Software Community Association.
Finance
The Finance Team handles everything to do with accounting, and managing the assets of the Tiki Software Community Association (Ex.: domain names)
Consulting Ecosystem
Community Building
Branding
Communications
The Communications Team is responsible primarily for our external message (press releases, newsletters, social media, etc.)
Branding vs communications vs community building
We recently spun off Branding Team from Communications Team as a separate team. There is also an overlap with Community Building Team. The following table provides some insight on the differences.
Publishing official News about Tiki | Communications Team |
Our official presence on Twitter, Facebook, etc. | Communications Team |
Generally promoting Tiki on social media | Community Building |
Posting articles about Tiki on your own blog/site | Community Building |
For people to have a good impression when they visit | Branding |
For people to understand what we do | Branding |
Developing a style guide for visual and textual communication | Branding |
To have lots of traffic and good SEO | Communications Team can coordinate but everyone can help |
Tiki Admin Group
The Tiki Admin Group is responsible for governance, overall coordination and all the rest including whatever that might fall between the cracks ๐.
Related
- Lists of members of all Teams
- Where
- WhoWhat
- Advisory Board
- SWOT
- Model
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