Who I am
Now before we get into my Tikiwiki experience let me tell you about me.
First off I have NEVER been part of a web community of this nature, so please excuse any signs of my foot going in my mouth!
I am a,
At this time I have a connection to Tikiwiki for a number of reasons.
There are several reasons that I am here at Tikiwiki.org.
So basically I am here on a Tikiwiki 101 course. In the next few months I have a huge list of things that I must learn. I am learning most of this from the ground up so a little of every thing is on my agenda. I will be digging through the wiki and forums for info. I will be asking questions. I will try to answer yours.
If I see a question that may be important to my clients I will work on an answer. So if you get a response from me and it seems that I have put a lot of thought into it you may be right. Part of this is that I like to help, but also that I must be able to answer these questions my self. If you need help trying to understand something just ask. I may not know but will try to point you in the right direction.
There a only a few ways that I think I can really help around here.
As I said above I believe it is important to return to the community. As a Webkeeper/Host I encourage my clients to contribute to the Open source projects that they use. A portion of our revenue is redirected back to the developers of the Open source projects that I encourage. However, as Tikiwiki is such a huge part of what we are doing it seems more then that is required.
We have some test sites that we allow those interested in tikiwiki or devs to play with and test out. We currently have three that are available. We have a 1.7.6 , 1.81 and a 1.9 CVS HEAD. If you would like to have access to these feel free to message me! At this time we will allow Tikiwiki.org members to use this. Hey devs, if this is of interest let me know.
I have a few areas that I am working on with tikiwiki. Although these projects are directly related to my web design/hosting needs I hope that these contributions will also help the tikiwiki community as well.
This is a fun little project!
I am working to create a tikiwiki package that I can install for clients that is much more ready to go then tikiwiki is as a standard issue. No mater how you slice it tikiwiki is not all that novice friendly. Most other CMS choices are installed and a few clicks later you have a working site. And these often include friendly hellos and how too's in the new site.
It is a lot nicer to be greeted to a "Hello and welcome to your new install of tikiwiki. Please use the edit button above to change this page" Rather then "Error you do not have permission to view this page". Boy, talk about making it seem like you goofed up before you even start! What has been done with the “Tikiwiki Assistant� is a very good start.
Now I really do not know the "Proper" way to do this but here is my idea.
I am setting up a site that would include the trackers made in the above note as well as other set up procedures.
So...
Now after this site is created I will save it and the data base. When a client wants a tikiwiki install I will just upload it and say Have fun! (Or perhaps I will include this in an auto install. (sorry to Fantistico but the less questions that I get about setting up a site the more time I have for other things)
Now this will work just fine for me but I have not a clue how I would get this as something that other tikiwiki users could use. I do not have the required skills to create the data base installer or any of the rest of that stuff. I assume that as most of these changes are database related that it would be easy to make an additional choice in the installation procedure.
I will explore the site here to see if there is work going on in this regard!
And that all for now folks!
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19 Sep 2024 14:00 GMT-0000
Tiki Roundtable Meeting |
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Tiki birthday |
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17 Oct 2024 14:00 GMT-0000
Tiki Roundtable Meeting |
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21 Nov 2024 14:00 GMT-0000
Tiki Roundtable Meeting |
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19 Dec 2024 14:00 GMT-0000
Tiki Roundtable Meeting |