Presentation20050319Crisol_Argentina

http://www.crisolargentina.org.ar/
March 19th 2005
Tiki CMS/Groupware

Marc Laporte (Canada)
Project admin

Martin Sarsale aka Runix (Argentina)
Developer

• Wiki + CMS + Groupware
• PHP/ADOdb/Smarty/LGPL
• Installs on Linux, Windows or Mac
• Started in October 2002 by Luis Argerich (Argentina)
• Excellent for mixte Web/Intranet environment

• We eat our own "DogFood" -> this presentation is in Tiki
• Classic open source project: release early, release often
• Very open: recruit early, recruit often
• Very centralized development. Most activity happens on SourceForge CVS, IRC and *.tiki.org

• http://tikiwiki.org/CommunityWorldmap
• 8 project admins
• 100+ contributors via CVS
• 280+ registered contributors on SourceForge
• 20 000 to 50 000 Tiki installs (estimated)
• 20+ languages

Fight back against "Frankensite". Typical:

• Postnuke CMS + 1-2 modules (ex. Calendar)
• Gallery for pics
• phpwiki for wiki
• phpBB for forums

Problems:

• Different look & feel, different User Interfaces (UI)
• Different logins
• Many applications to manage

• Smarty template engine & CSS for easy configuration of look & feel. Theme control center

Examples:
http://www.exclusivite.ca/Accueil
http://bu-mtl.com/Bar_a_Vins
http://www.lancementsuse.ca/

• WikiPedia
• Browser-based editing of webpages
• Wiki syntax for simple formatting without html
• Multiple editors
• Version history

• Authentication
• Structures
• Powerful category system
• "Cached links"
• Other features are integrated (forums, articles/blogs, etc)

• Wiki (full-featured)
• Articles & blogs
• Links directory
• Image gallery
• File Gallery
• Banner ads management
• Forums
• FAQ
• Quiz / Surveys / Polls
• Newsletter

• Trackers (bugs, tasks, etc)
• MyTiki (task, notes, bookmarks, files, calendar, etc)
• Internal message system
• Calendar for groups

• Very elaborate permission system: 151 permissions assignable to groups in 1.8 (176 in upcoming 1.9)
• Global search engine
• Integrated statistics
• RSS & XML-RPC
• Category system
• Wiki syntax (not just in wiki, but also forums, etc)
• Multilingual menus (multilingual content in 1.9)
• Authentification LDAP, CAS, Web server, etc
• Browser-based administration (after installation)
• All settings are saved in the database.

• JgraphPad (browser-based graphic editing)
• Wap/VoiceXML via the HAWHAW toolkit
• WorkFlow Galaxia (in collaboration with Horde, Xaraya, Postnuke, Xoops and more.groupware)
• Live Support
• Tiki Maps
• GraphViz & TouchGraph

• Project of the Month on Sourceforge (July 2003)
• Best Web Application for 2003 (Editor's choice) by Osdir.
• 7400+ members on tikiwiki.org

http://www.tiki.org/
marclaporte at php.net
freenode #tikiwiki