UserPagekevinB

Hi, my name is Kevin Behrens.

My wife, young daughter and I recently moved from Michigan to Plow Creek Fellowship

in rural Illinois.
I left my engineering job for an internship with Evergreen Leaders,
a new nonprofit organization.

So far, we feel very much at home here. I enjoy writing and hope
that my vocation moves toward more human interaction.

Some of my fascinations:

Cosmology
Ancient Civilizations
Detroit Tigers baseball
- this brings tears to my eyes ->

I wrote a long-winded article describing my outlook on life and reasons for
exploring intentional community: Reconciling Intentions

My software experience:

VB6 (OO) and MS-SQL
some Delphi
HTML basics
Macromedia Director
some Photoshop / Paintshop Pro

Current Tiki dev environment:

Win 2000
Tiki 1.8 (backported some 1.81 fixes)
Crimson Editor
))WinMerge((
))ExamDiff((
Easy PHP 1.7 (MySQL 4.0.15)

My take on Tiki:

new to Wiki, Tiki and CMS admin as of January 2004
MySQL, php, Smarty and CMS: learning by immersion
primary CMS for new nonprofit org - debuted late March
great doc, setup and cfg friendliness (open source needs this!)
hosting on emaxhosting.com: so far, so good

Although I don't feel qualified to participate in Tiki core dev, I've done some hacking for minor improvements and customizations. Here are those that seem most widely useful:

My Tiki hacks:

A whole bunch that I just (8 April 2004) attached some documentation for (yes, an Excel file). Here are the highlights.
- Calendars, major facelift
- Change Log, split from Event Calendar
- Category browsing: populated cats bold and show object count with (#)
- Categories: display cat objects list from any section
- Trackers: included in text search
- Wiki: unclutter header area, including
  - categorization indicated by *; cat path in title bar of cat objects box
  - move icons, backlinks dropdown up to right of page title
  - move category objects list to very bottom
- Calendars: fix day view display
- Trackers: fix categorization
- Newsletters: browse previous editions
- css cleanup: reduced subsilver.css to 94K to 49K (39K w/o comments)
- tikilib cleanup: reduced from 163K to 139K
- lots of misc. reformatting and recaptioning

These and 140+ other bug fixes and minor enhancements I felt were necessary to make my Tiki 1.8 implementation user-friendly and well-behaved. I intend to offer the source code to the core dev team so they can look it over and merge changes properly.

I'm not trying to be a rogue / hacking / branching rebel... just haven't had time to deal with CVS and the collaborative design process.

my site: Evergreen Leaders

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