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Hi, my name is Kevin Behrens.

My wife, young daughter and I recently moved from Michigan to Plow Creek FellowshipQuestion 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
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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 1.7.5 (migrating to 1.8)
  • Crimson Editor
  • ))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 CSS still mostly Greek to me
  • primary CMS for new nonprofit org - in progress
  • great doc, setup and cfg friendliness (open source needs this!)
  • some apprehension about Tiki hosting; I'd appreciate dialogue




Although I don't feel qualified to participate in Tiki 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
    • Categories: populated cats are bold and show object count with (#)
    • Categories: display cat objects list from any section
    • Trackers: included in text search
    • Wiki: categorization indicated by *, cat path in title bar of objects box
    • Calendars: fix day view display
    • Trackers: fix categorization
    • Newsletters: browse previous editions
    • 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 / hack / branching rebel... just haven't had time to deal with CVS and the collaborative design process.

my site: Evergreen LeadersQuestion

Thank you,

Tiki Team! 😁

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