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Slide 1: TWiki

TWiki

• Russell Adams and Rick Archibald

• December 6th, 2003

Slide 2: Russell Adams

• Professional System Administrator
• Over a Decade in Information Technology
• Large systems (1000+ users)
• Linux only for over seven years
• Gentoo Rocks!
• Survived LFS

Slide 3: Rick Archibald

• "Older than ENIAC, younger than dirt"
  • = Dinosaur
• 1964 1st Computer Course
• 1971 Commercial Assembly Programmer
  • (before your parents met)
• 2001 joined HLUG
• 2002 1st "permanent" Linux Install
  • Red Hat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0
• (2003) Debian is pure!
• Currently your Librarian

Slide 4: Our Audience!

• Who has used any of the following:
  • Email
  • Mailing Lists
  • Web Discussion Forums
  • Content Management Systems

Slide 5: What is TWiki?

"TWiki is a leading-edge, web-based collaboration platform targeting the corporate intranet world. TWiki fosters information flow within an organization; lets distributed teams work together seamlessly and productively; and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content."

Slide 6: So what's a Wiki?

• Interactive Web
• Anyone can edit content
• No special software, just a browser
• Simple markup language (no HTML)
• WikiWords!

Slide 7: WikiWords are awesome!

• A Wiki links topics together using WikiWords
• Removes the burden of manual HTML linking
• Remove all spaces, capitalize each word.
• More than one word.
• ie: HoustonLinuxUsersGroup, PeanutButter, ChickenPizza

Slide 8: Wiki's History

• Ward Cunningham created the original WikiWikiWeb.
• There are now almost 200 Wiki clones.

Slide 9: What is TWiki?

• TWiki is a powerful Wiki clone suitable for:
  • Corporate Intranets
  • Knowledge Bases
  • Discussion Forums
  • Generic WikiWebs
  • Web Applications

Slide 10: TWiki Developers

• TWiki was originally written by Peter Thoeny
• Maintained with the help of 8 additional core developers
• 30+ code contributors, >100 on developer lists.

Slide 11: TWiki Features

• Topic level access controls (ACL's)
• Authentication (Apache, Windows Domain, LDAP)
• Integrated Version Control
• Database Functions (Forms, Searches)
• Update Notification
• Extensible via Plugins
• Skins
• GPLed Open Source Software!

Slide 12: Who's using TWiki?

• BT, Disney, Motorola, IBM
• SAP, WindRiver, Lufthansa
• CERN, Circuit City, Reuters
• Boeing, Siemens
• Collective Technologies

Slide 13: TWiki Demonstrations

• Main Page
• Markup Syntax
• Version Control
• Database Forms/Searching

Slide 14: TWiki Demonstrations

• Main Page
  • WebHome

Slide 15: TWiki Demonstrations

• Markup Syntax
  • Content more important than Formatting
  • GoodStyle
  • TextFormattingRules

Slide 16: TWiki Demonstrations

• Version Control
  • RCS based
  • WebHome

Slide 17: TWiki Demonstrations

• Database Forms/Searching
  • http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/WebHome

Slide 18: Break!

Slide 19: TWiki Hands-on Walkthrough

• TWikiTutorial

Slide 20: Q&A