OpenSym News

  • Watching WikiSym 2009

    I have been recording and streaming WikiSym2009 – using two tools ustream.tv for live streaming and Kaltura.com for video record and remix.

    You can watch our live stream at http://ustream.tv/channel/wikisym and paper and poster summaries will be available through Kaltura over the coming weeks.

    If there is an item you are particularly interested in hearing about please contact me through http://twitter.com/mrjcleaver

  • Reach an audience beyond WikiSym 2009

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    Perhaps you presented a paper, or poster, or gained an insight at WikiSym, or maybe you weren’t able to attend this year but had something you wanted to say.

    Share a video with us – and we’ll share it with the world.

    To upload – go to http://www.wikisym.org/video/

    Martin.

  • WikiSym Monday Morning Announcements

    A couple of announcements for Monday and Tuesday of WikiSym 2009!

    • Open space starts 10:15am for 15min to open the day
    • Open space continues through Tuesday all day!
    • Please come Tuesday evening to open space to close the conference!
    • If you haven’t picked up your T-shirt, please do so today over lunch in open space
    • Please consider meeting a Disney social software expert on Wednesday after WikiSym!

    For meeting Disney, please talk to Felipe Ortega for more information. Thanks to Camille Rose for making this happen!

  • WikiSym Sunday Evening Meeting Point

    Here is one option to meet for dinner and hang out with other WikiSym folks: We will meet at the entrance steps to Cirque du Soleil in Downtown Disney tonight, Sunday, at 7pm. Buses from the hotel leave about every 20min so at the bus stop, make some WikiSym noises! Once we meet at the meeting point, we’ll be waiting for about 10-15min while figuring out where to go. The final destination, e.g. a restaurant, will be tweeted using the #wikisym hashtag so watch that channel! (And stay near someone with a working U.S. cell phone to catch the information if you didn’t make it to the meeting place in time.)

  • Some video content available!

    I’m live streaming some content from WikiSym 2009 – see http://ustre.am/7s2G

  • Skype Backchannel / Social for WikiSym 2009

    Arriving into Orlando for WikiSym? Hook up with others for socials such as Cirque du Soleil, Epcot & Accommodation. http://bit.ly/37u8JR

  • Wikis4SE: Workshop on “Wikis for Software Engineering”

    Wikis provide a very effective environment for collaborative authoring of web-based documents, and are thus intensively used to support the edition, organization and storage of software documentation.

    But wikis can do more.

    They may be used to support other software engineering activities and even to inspire new ways of developing software.

    This workshop focuses precisely on the usage of wikis to support software engineering activities, to improve team collaboration and communication in software projects, and on identifying the open issues requiring research and development to yield an even wider usage and better integration of wikis with other software engineering tools and infrastructures.

    In last edition of the workshop, at ICSE’2009, Ward Cunningham challenged the participants (by video) to think/discover/idealize how wikis and tools should be like to enable software development to follow the wiki’s philosophy.

    Following the insightful discussion then started, we plan to continue it at WikiSym 2009, in a very open and informal way, so that everybody interested in this topic may attend, contribute and benefit from it.

    More details in the Wikis4SE wiki (external link).

    If you have interest on contributing to this challenge, join us!

    Ademar Aguiar, Nuno Flores, and Paulo Merson

    Monday, October 26th, 13h30-17h00, Room Fantasia A

  • WikiSym Testimonio: Un testimonio de por qué Vodaphone ha llegado a WikiSym (España)

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  • WikiSym Testimonial: Why Vodaphone came to WikiSym (English)

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  • WikiSym2009: Why a newcomer came to WikiSym

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