The Weblog for the AboutUs Wiki

May 28, 2007

RoCoCoCamp.info

Filed under: Community — MarkDilley

Event recap

RecentChangesCamp Montreal, aptly named RoCoCo - a wiki style bar camp brought together some amazing minds from the wiki world. An unconference in style, a physical representation of wiki - these wiki camps let people decide the agenda and purpose of why they are there.

Participants at RoCoCo spanned from the West Coast of North America to Europe.

[edit]

Developers get together

Nine wiki developers at RoCoCo formed a collaborative group to better communicate amongst wikis. A weekly IRC meeting is planned for the first Tuesday of each month at 21:00 GMT on irc.freenode.net, #wikiohana. Among the topics to be discussed are OpenID, wiki markup and an extended interwiki / sisterwiki map. A bot is in place to capture discussions and the chat room is open for use any time for those interested. Notes on the collaborative efforts can be found at [1].

[edit]

Synergy At Work

UniversalWikiEditButton - ConsensusPolling.org on creating a standard wiki edit-symbol type similar to RSS
SpreadWiki.org / SpreadTheWikiWay.com - concept likened to SpreadFirefox.com
Wikithon.org type house parties that teach wiki and the wiki way. - EugeneKim mentioned that Socialtext.com was doing similar type events.. parties to work on other wikis than your own.
WikiWednesday.org - co-located by time - a likely candidate is the day after the WikiTechTuesday IRC meetings, the first Tuesday each month.
WikiBirthday.org and WikiBirthdayParty.org
WikiClock.org - The Wikiclock was created as part of the “Wiki and…” project, as a demonstration of the silly extent that we sometimes over-use Wiki technology.
Wixee.com A wiki search engine.
Synnamon.net - Collecting best practices for information architecture, folksonomy, tagging, machine tags, faceted.
WikiRDF.org - Three Wiki-related RDF vocabularies were discussed at RoCoCoCamp; this is a potential home for such vocabularies.