AmiWiki:Coordination/Site presentation in Rome

Industry forum
Short site demo. (Perhaps invite interested users to the workshop presentation.. is the workshop open?)

Workshop
Longer (30 min/1 hour?) talk, Q&A and general discussion afterwards.

Marc

 * Opening notes.
 * Motivations for web site changes
 * Identifying: from project identity to AMI@Work Communities identity - AMI@Work home page and community home page for every community (SIG?), links to projects
 * Editing: make the web site more dynamic in involving all members into the editing of their community pages - News, Coming Events, About, research topics, ...
 * Personalising: provide the feeling to individuals to be at home (i.e. mySpace, allocate a specific page to individual members)
 * Profiling: enable members to indicate their research topics of interest(i.e. new profile page, looking for, proposing)
 * Connecting: use research topics to connect members and their papers (i.e. Topic or Concept Maps browsers), identify more collaboration opportunities, support on-line Knowledge Connection principles
 * Process for the new web site
 * Prototyping: prepare a web site prototype based on the previous MOSAIC web site experience and implement it into a Wiki approach (community based approach) selected Wiki environement is WikiMedia (i.e. WikiPedia)
 * Involving: engage communities leaders and members into the web site discussion (Wiki content toolbar: discussion)
 * Experimenting: communities leaders and members to use the prototyped version and provide contributions
 * Extending the web site collaboration
 * Inviting: propose about web page and link to related projects (i.e. MOSAIC, COMIST, wearIT@work, EUdomain,......), reference projects with research topics, involve and link with other country or topic based communities?
 * Promoting: next newsletter, collect or connect with relevant country or topic based eMailing lists

Rudolf

 * Integration with BSCW
 * User management through BSCW
 * Registration of new users
 * Authorisation via cookies
 * Wiki verifys authorisation and set the cookies
 * BSCW checks the cookies
 * Personal profile
 * Research topics
 * Community administration
 * Event management
 * mySpace - portal for the collaboration space
 * entry page for BSCW access
 * list of selected communities
 * access to the home folder
 * profile actions
 * currently a first version - functionality will be extended

Stanislav

 * What is a wiki
 * Introduction
 * A (very) few words about some successful wikis (Portland pattern repository, Wikipedia)
 * Who uses wikis (collaborative projects, enterprises, etc.)
 * How wikis work
 * Every (or almost) every single page is editable by users
 * Wiki "markup"
 * The history of all changes is kept; changes can be easily reverted
 * Users can keep track of changes via Recent changes, history, watchlist, email, RSS/Atom
 * Wiki "philosophy"
 * Simplicity
 * Content evolution
 * Since every page is editable, contributors can design the information architecture (site organization)
 * The AMI@Work communities web site
 * Integration with existing user database and BSCW
 * Uses of the wiki part
 * Licensing of text and multimedia material in the wiki
 * Demonstration of the site
 * Registration/login using existing user name
 * Creating/editing articles
 * Comparing revisions
 * Creating a community home page
 * Preferences (incl. enroll for events, change of profile data, etc.)
 * My space
 * Research topics
 * Marketing strategy