Mo, 8:30am-10:00am, California Room
Speaker: Ward Cunningham
Title: The Crucible of Cooperation
Bio: Ward Cunningham is an architect in Microsoft's patterns & practices group where he focuses on social aspects of technical knowledge. He is a founder of Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and has served as the first program chair of the Pattern Languages of Programs conference which it sponsors. Ward created the CRC-Card design method which helps teams find objects.
Mo, 10:30am-noon, California Room, Session Chair: Matthias Jugel
Mo, 10:30am-noon, Terrace Pavilion
Abstract: The future of wikis is rooted in the past and growing right now, in the present. This panel will discuss the current pressures, constraints, and motivations behind the explosive growth of wikis today, as grounded in their own efforts. The panelists will describe how they plan to preserve the original wiki design principles into the next phase of growth, even as they face new problems not originally foreseen.
Moderator: Sunir Shah, founder and Editor of MeatballWiki, which has facilitated communitywide wiki development on the Internet since April 2000. Shah is also the original articulator of the concept of soft security. MeatballWiki has made several important contributions to the defense of wiki culture in the face of new types of attacks. For the past two years, it has been facilitating the ongoing discussion around wiki spam on MeatballWiki as well as contributing important theoretical concepts and technical solutions, such as the peer-to-peer ban list and citizen arrest.
Participant: Ward Cunningham is an architect in Microsoft's patterns & practices group where he focuses on social aspects of technical knowledge. He is a founder of Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and has served as the first program chair of the Pattern Languages of Programs conference which it sponsors. Ward created the CRC-Card design method which helps teams find objects.
Participant: Ross Mayfield is the CEO of SocialText, Inc., a company that develops social software for collaboration in the enterprise. He received a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program at the Anderson School of Business. Ross has over 10 years of startup executive management experience. He co-founded and served as President of RateXchange, a business-2-business commodity exchange for telecom. He's served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout and Marketing Director of one of the largest privately held telecom groups in Eastern Europe. Ross has also started an ISP and a web design company.
Participant: Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia project, and Wikicities.com, which extends the social concepts of Wikipedia into new areas. Jimmy was formerly a futures and options trader in Chicago, and currently travels the world evangelizing the success of Wikipedia and the importance of free culture. When not traveling, Jimmy lives in Florida with his wife and daughter.
Mo, 1:30pm-3:00pm, California Room, Session Chair: Seb Paquet
Mo, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Terrace Pavilion
Abstract: Enterprise software is changing before our eyes: from the way it is sold, bought and used. The model of top down, million dollar license deals with multi-million dollar service contracts sold over six to nine month sales cycles is quickly becoming a dinosaur. The new model is the "consumer enterprise" where software becomes a commodity: it is inexpensive, deployed from bottom up, lightweight, and adaptable to changing business processes. Among other reasons, wikis are gaining popularity in the enterprise because they fit into this major transition. This panel will explore wikis in the enterprise - how they're being used, who benefits and where it's heading - and the intersection of wikis with the major trend of the consumer enterprise.
Moderator: Eugene Eric Kim, co-founder and principal of Blue Oxen Associates, a think tank and consultancy focused on improving collaboration. He has developed collaborative strategies for a number of organizations, focusing especially on inter-organizational collaboration and collaborative learning. His research centers around identifying patterns of collaboration across different domains (with a special focus on open source communities) and on improving the interoperability of collaborative tools. He is also the cocreator of PurpleWiki. Previously, Eugene worked closely with computer pioneer Doug Engelbart, who currently serves on the Blue Oxen Associates advisory board. He received his A.B. in History and Science from Harvard University.
Participant: Joe Kraus, co-founder and CEO of JotSpot, the first application-wiki company. A long time entrepreneur, Joe has been involved with early-stage technology development and starting companies for more than twelve years. Upon graduation from Stanford University in 1993, he joined with five engineering friends to found the highly successful Internet company, Excite, Inc. The original president of Excite, Joe was deeply involved in product strategy, direction and vision as the company grew. He also held senior operational roles in business development, international development and content. After leaving Excite@Home in 2000, Joe was a co-founder of Digitalconsumer.org, a non-profit grassroots consumer organization with more than 50,000 members dedicated to protecting consumers fair-use rights to digital media. Joe, along with other cofounder Graham Spencer, continues to work on these important issues. In addition to his non-profit focus, he has also spent many years as an angel investor, working with numerous early-stage technology companies.
Participant: Peter Thoeny, founder of TWiki, the leading Wiki for corporate collaboration and knowledge management. Managing the open-sourced project for the last six years, Peter invented the concept of structured wikis - where free form wiki content can be structured with tailored wiki applications. He is a recognized thought-leader in Wikis and social software, featured in numerous articles and technology conferences including LinuxWorld, Business Week, Wall Street Journal and more. A software developer with over 15 years experience, Peter specializes in software architecture, user interface design and web technology. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, lived in Japan for 8 years working as an engineering manager for Denso building CASE tools, and managed the Knowledge Engineering group at Wind River for several years.
Participant: Frank Weil, Manager of Software Design Automation with Motorola Global Software Group, focuses on model-driven engineering and automatic code generation. He is Chair of the Motorola Model-Driven Engineering Technical Advisory Board and has served on the Senior Executive Program OO Development Group and the Corporate AI Steering Committee. Frank has authored more than 20 refereed publications spanning a wide range of software engineering topics. He was instrumental in introducing TWikis into Motorola, and his groups use TWikis in nearly all the phases of their development processes.
Participant: Shashi Seth, Product Manager, Search Quality, with Google where he focuses on user facing features of Google Search. Before joining Google, he was Principal, Product Strategy at eBay where amongst other things, Shashi introduced eBay to the use of wiki's in the enterprise, specially for collaboration and global dissemination of information to all members of the strategy team, senior management staff, and executive staff. Shashi was also instrumental in building a strategy for eBay to utilize the power of the community to build useful content like help content, faqs, etc. Shashi was part of the team that launched Gap's online stores in the late 90s, has provided e-commerce consulting to many businesses, and worked at NASA from the late 80s through mid-90s building avionics systems and flight simulators.
Mo, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Ascot Room, Session Chair: Alain Desilets
Mo, 3:30pm-5:00pm, California Room
A unique WikiSym experience: Speed Demos! Fast-paced, multi-tasked, demos.
Mo, 5:00pm-7:00pm, Poolside Area near Trellises Restaurant
Mingle with your peers and other folks and talk about whats happening and what to do next.
Tue, 8:30am-10:00am, Town & Country Room
Speaker: Robert Hass
Title: Creativity
Bio: Robert Hass, Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
Tue, 10:30am-noon, Golden West Room
Speaker: Jimmy Wales
Title: Wikipedia in the Free Culture Revolution
Abstract: Wikipedia is one of the shining leaders of the free culture revolution taking place on the Internet. Wales will discuss how Wikipedia operates, what lessons can be learned for future projects, and what the future holds for free culture generally.
Bio: Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia project, and Wikicities.com, which extends the social concepts of Wikipedia into new areas. Jimmy was formerly a futures and options trader in Chicago, and currently travels the world evangelizing the success of Wikipedia and the importance of free culture. When not traveling, Jimmy lives in Florida with his wife and daughter.
Tue, 1:30pm-5:00pm, Royal Palm Room 3
See WikiSym/OOPSLA tutorial WT1
Tue, 1:30pm-5:00pm, Royal Palm Room 4
See WikiSym/OOPSLA tutorial WT3
Sun, 1:30pm-5:00pm, Eaton Room
Workshop homepage: http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiSpamWorkshop
Abstract: Wiki spam has begun to cripple the use of public wikis. The original WikiWikiWeb threw its 'shields up' at the beginning of 2005 in part due to spammers. The problem of defending against wiki spam while preserving the traditional wiki value of openness is a daunting one. MeatballWiki has been leading the discussion of how to defend sensibly against wiki spam. This workshop is intended as both a report on progess as well as a facilitated time to come together to devise better solutions for this problem.
Organizer: Sunir Shah is the Founder and Editor of MeatballWiki, which has facilitated communitywide wiki development on the Internet since April 2000. Shah is also the original articulator of the concept of soft security. MeatballWiki has made several important contributions to the defense of wiki culture in the face of new types of attacks. For the past two years, it has been facilitating the ongoing discussion around wiki spam on MeatballWiki as well as contributing important theoretical concepts and technical solutions, such as the peer-to-peer ban list and citizen arrest.
Tue, 1:30pm-5:00pm, Esquire Room
Abstract. Wiki's proved to be very appealing collaboration tools to present and edit web-based information, through a very simple markup language, a powerful dynamic-linking mechanism, and support to the notion of adaptive web pages. This workshop focuses on the usage of Wiki engines in the specific domain of software documentation. It aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in researching and exploring Wiki’s as cost-effective tools to support cooperative and agile software documentation, with the goal of identifying key opportunities, challenges and obstacles to Wiki-based software documentation, and to build collaborations for future research.
Organizer: Ademar Aguiar teaches at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP) and does Research & Development at INESC Porto. He has specialized in the area of software engineering, mainly framework technology, design patterns, agile processes, and software documentation, topics about which he has authored several research papers and presented many different courses to academic and industrial audiences. His PhD thesis, titled "A Minimalist Approach to Framework Documentation", proposes a pragmatic approach to document frameworks, which comprises a documentation model, an agile documentation process, and a set of collaborative documentation tools and utilities based on the Wiki concept and XML technologies. Currently, his main line of research is on Wiki-based tools to support the low-cost production of high-quality documentation for OO frameworks.
Organizer: Gabriel David teaches at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP) and does Research & Development at INESC Porto. He has specialized in the area of large information systems, mainly business modeling, database systems, and university information systems, topics about which he has authored several research papers.
Tue, 1:30pm-5:00pm, Dover Room
Workshop hompage: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WikiSym2005OssDevWithWiki
Abstract: Some open source communities started to use a wiki to organize their work. This workshop uses the TWiki project as a case study. The TWiki community is using their structured wiki since inception as the primary communication vehicle to brainstorm on ideas, track new features, track bugs, provide support and create documentation. Other open source communities using Wikis are invited to participate in the workshop to compare the emerging methodologies of wikis for open source software development.
Organizer: Peter Thoeny, founder of TWiki, the leading Wiki for corporate collaboration and knowledge management. Managing the open-sourced project for the last six years, Peter invented the concept of structured wikis - where free form wiki content can be structured with tailored wiki applications. He is a recognized thought-leader in Wikis and social software, featured in numerous articles and technology conferences including LinuxWorld, Business Week, Wall Street Journal and more. A software developer with over 15 years experience, Peter specializes in software architecture, user interface design and web technology. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, lived in Japan for 8 years working as an engineering manager for Denso building CASE tools, and managed the Knowledge Engineering group at Wind River for several years.
Organizer: Colas Nahaboo is now the Intranet Architect at ILOG (www.ilog.com), where he extensively uses Wiki technologies and web standards to design a collaborative intranet. He also leads the Human Factor efforts at ILOG, and before that led the R&D Koala team at Bull and Dyade, on topics as diverse as Web, XML, Java, Graphics, User Interfaces, Message Buses, Languages, with many Open Source productions such as Batik, XPM, Klone, GWM, ... since his PhD in 1989.
Tue, 1:30pm-5:00pm, Royal Palm Room 5
Workshop homepage: http://communitywiki.org/InterWikiWorkshopAtWikiSym2005
Abstract: This workshop will be an informal discussion of ideas and technologies for connecting wikis to each other. Topics may include: (1) Linking between wikis (examples: InterWiki link prefixes, NearLinking, SisterSites, LocalNames) (2) Inter-wiki page interchange (3) RecentChanges syndication (example: RecentNearChanges) (4) Distributed wiki engines (5) Wiki markup standard(s) (6) Interoperability between wiki and other software (7) Software projects for wiki interoperability (examples: OneBigSoup, WikiGateway) (8) Standards relevant to wikis (examples: ModWiki/RSS, Atom, WikiXmlRpc) (9) Social and information architecture initiatives to connect wikis (examples: TourBus, WikiNode) (10) Social standards. The actual topics discussed will depend on what participants want to discuss.
Organizer: Lion Kimbro works on the WikiNodes network and Local Names. The WikiNodes network connects related wiki communities. Local Names is a way to connect the linking mechanics of blogs, wiki, and other text authoring systems. See his page at http://communitywiki.org/LionKimbro for more information.
Organizer : Helmut Leitner is a software and wiki developer (ProWiki), a wiki founder (DseWiki, BücherWiki, GründerWiki), and a wiki provider (WikiService). He revived the TourBus idea of John De Bruyn and supports the WikiNode idea. Helmut is a member of the MeatballWiki community and most interested in the social and cultural aspects of the wiki. WikiService currently hosts about 80 wiki community projects with a number of InterWiki technologies (e.g. RSS, SisterSites, ...) in place. He has a MS in chemistry from the Technical University of Graz, Austria. See his wiki homepage at http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?HelmutLeitner for more information.
Organizer: Bayle Shanks is interested in using technology for new kinds of collaboration, decision-making, and information retrieval. He is working on WikiGateway, a library module providing functions like getPage, putPage, and getRecentChanges. WikiGateway can interact remotely with many different wiki engines (such as UseMod and MoinMoin), yet it provides a single API to the software which calls it. Bayle is a doctoral student in computational neurobiology at UCSD with a background in mathematics and artificial intelligence. See his wiki homepage at http://communitywiki.org/BayleShanks for more information.