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Overhaul of Foswiki topic interaction surface planned by Arthur Clemens and Carlo Schulz

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Did you know that the Foswiki community is actively trying to create a complete new interaction design for you and your users. Especially Arthur Clemens and Carlo Schulz are  actively creating concepts how the Foswiki surface can be improved and be more easily to understand and use.
A lot of community members think that usability improvements for Foswiki are one of the most important ways to increase Foswikis adoption within your company and within the market.
If you want to help us, please comment on these drafts and help us to understand, what you and your users need.

Did you know that the Foswiki community is actively trying to create a complete new interaction design for you and your users. Especially Arthur Clemens and Carlo Schulz are  actively creating concepts how the Foswiki surface can be improved and be more easily to understand and use.

A lot of community members think that usability improvements for Foswiki are one of the most important ways to increase Foswikis adoption within your company and within the market.

If you want to help us, please comment on these drafts and help us to understand, what you and your users need.

You can find discussions and much more information on the progress in our Wiki under RethinkingTopicInteraction (incl. all pictures) and RethinkingTopicInteractionPrototype. Please tell us, what you think.

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How to remotely join the Foswiki Summit

November 21st, 2009
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Foswiki summit begins today and lasts until tomorrow. Did you know that you can participate from your home computer remotely? Yes, you can.
One goal of the Foswiki community is to be open and transparent. That’s why we try to incorporate all technical means available to help you join the summit from your remote desktop.
Here is what you can do:
- Join our IRC chat
That is where we expect the most activity and documentation, because this is the channel we use most often in the day-to-day community communication.
- Read the wikipages on www.foswiki.org
We will try to document and update the wiki regularly. You can monitor these changes by looking at all changes in all webs.
- Ride the wave
Some of the summit’s participants are fond of Google Wave and will try to use it for our conference live documentation in addition to other channels.
- Etherpad for live text collaboration
The service etherpad.com offers live text collaboration that is much faster than Google Wave and more powerful than IRC chat. It will turn out during our sessions, if this is going to be utilized a lot. Thank you to Colas Nahaboo for the tip.
- uStream live video
It is unsure if the web connection in hannover and our technical equipment will make it possible to offer a video stream. But if so we will. Find out on the IRC chat what the current state is.
Get current infos on foswiki.org
We will maintain this wiki page about RemoteFoswikiSummitParticipation to keep you in the loop of how to interact with us through the mentioned channels. Check that page now for more info.
We are looking forward to virtually meet you for our first Foswiki Community Summit.
Martin Seibert on behalf of the physical participants in Hannover

Foswiki summit begins today and lasts until tomorrow. Did you know that you can participate from your home computer remotely? Yes, you can.

One goal of the Foswiki community is to be open and transparent. That’s why we try to incorporate all technical means available to help you join the summit from your remote desktop.

Here is what you can do:

Join our IRC chat

That is where we expect the most activity and documentation, because this is the channel we use most often in the day-to-day community communication. Here is how you can get on our IRC channel.

Read the wikipages on www.foswiki.org

We will try to document and update the wiki regularly. You can monitor these changes by looking at all changes in all webs.

Ride the wave

Some of the summit’s participants are fond of Google Wave and will try to use it for our conference live documentation in addition to other channels. Find all public Google Waves about Foswiki here.

Etherpad for live text collaboration

The service etherpad.com offers live text collaboration that is much faster than Google Wave and more powerful than IRC chat. It will turn out during our sessions, if this is going to be utilized a lot. Thank you to Colas Nahaboo for the tip. Here is the etherpad-document.

uStream live video

It is unsure if the web connection in hannover and our technical equipment will make it possible to offer a video stream. But if so we will. Find out on the IRC chat what the current state is. Not established until now. Lets see …

We are looking forward to virtually meet you for our first Foswiki Community Summit.

Martin Seibert on behalf of the physical participants in Hannover

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Join the first Foswiki Summit on 2009/11/21 in Hannover, Germany

November 7th, 2009
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Participants of the last TWiki summit

Participants of the last TWiki summit

Did you know, that Foswiki is now an officially registered association with bylaws and all that is needed, to prevent that community from being influence by commercial interests? Yay! Thank you once more to Jens Hanssen and a lot of others to make this possible. we want to have our very first general assembly and use it also for our first Foswiki Summit.

The event takes place on the 21st and 22nd of November 2009 in Hannover, Germany. We will meet at Krokus (Stadtteilzentrum Kronsberg), Thie 6, 30539 Hannover (see on Google Maps for more details). There are already 16 community members registered for the event. Almost all of us gather for an informal Get-Together already on Friday at 8 pm at the restaurant Cheers, Marschnerstrasse 2, Hannover (Map, public transportation: Station “Christuskirche”, Line 6).

We would love to see you there also. The event is free to attend and you do not have to become a Foswiki Association member, if you participate. Everybody is welcome.

Register for the event by simply adding your name in our summit wiki page!

Gathering with the Foswiki community is a lot of fun

Gathering with the Foswiki community is a lot of fun

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