Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware has been awarded a 2010 Bossie award (Best of Open Source Software) by InfoWorld, in the Applications category. InfoWorld's Best of Open Source Software Awards (aka the Bossies) is chosen annually by Test Center editors and reviewers, and recognize the best open source software for business users.

The editors called Tiki "a powerful, integrated, Web-based application" that can "build and maintain websites, wikis, groupware, CMSes, forums, blogs, and bug trackers, as well as make them multilingual."



The review continues, citing Tiki's "fine-grained role-based privilege system" as a differentiating factor against classic wiki models, such as MediaWiki. Read the full article on InfoWorld.com.

And don't forget to nominate Tiki for the Packt 2010 Open Source Awards!

Members of the Tiki Community, including developers, end-users, advocates, will be meeting in the Big Apple from October 3-6, 2010. This TikiFest will be the last major gathering before the release of Tiki 6.

The TikiFest, a long-standing tradition of the Tiki Community, is a chance for community members (who do not normally meet) to get together, socialize, and further the development of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. More than 40 of these "code sprints" have been held throughout the world.

In addition to preparing for the upcoming Tiki 6 release, TikiFest New York will also planning for Tiki 7, celebrating Tiki's 8th birthday, and an open demonstration hosted by Casa Frela Gallery (details below).

At the most recent TikiFest in Ottawa, Canada, several Tiki Community members met to socialize and contribute their talents to the future of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. For four days (August 15 - 18), the attendees (including several remote participants) discussed, planned, and coded many features and enhancements planned for Tiki 6.

The TikiFest ended with a wine-and-cheese social at the Code Factory in Ottawa, hosted by Citadel Rock, Blindside Networks, Pondstone Communications, and AvanTech.net, all of whom are active participants in the Tiki and BigBlueButton communities.

The cornerstone of the TikiFest was to improve the integration between Tiki and BigBlueButton that was first introduced in Tiki 5. Additionally, a full day of the event was reserved for various internationalization (i18n) topics, including:

• Establishing a collaborative multilingual glossary
• Creating a translation server
• Making it easier for the Tiki Community to contribute translations

See http://tiki.org/TikiFestBigBlueButton to review all items from this event (including pictures and video from the event).

Several TikiFests are planned for the upcoming months in Montréal, New York City, and Berlin. See the Tiki Community calendar at http://tiki.org for details.

For information on Tiki 6, the next generation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware (planned for October 2010), see http://dev.tiki.org/tiki6.

Looking for an easy way to contribute to the Tiki Community? Why not to help translate Tiki into your native language?

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware already ships with full multilingual support, including translations for more than 35 languages. However, some of these translations are incomplete. This is where you can help! With Tiki's interactive translation feature, updating and improving translation strings is quick and easy.

All interested Tiki Community members are invited to help maintain and update the translations. With an active development cycle and lots of new features planned for Tiki 6, there is plenty of work to do.

For information on the status of Tiki translations, see http://tikiwiki.org/i18n+status . For information on using the Tiki Interactive Translation feature, see http://doc.tikiwiki.org/interactive+translation.

Packt Publishing is now accepting nominations for its 2010 Open source Awards. The Tiki Community needs your help to nominate Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware!




By nominating Tiki, you'll also be automatically entered into a prize draw for an Amazon Kindle from Packt Publishing. Nominations end September 17.

See http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home for more information.

Did you know that two very exciting Open Source software products for web conferencing, online social collaboration/media have strong roots in Ottawa? On Wednesday August 18th at 6PM, web development companies, systems integrators, designers, developers and open source enthusiasts will be gathering at The Code Factory in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for a wine and cheese networking event.

You are invited to come learn how Tiki and BigBlueButton are leading the way in the online world of Collaboration and Communication and meet some of the developers and companies that work with these great products.

The Tiki Community Software Association is proud to announce the 5.1 release of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. This latest release includes many fixes, tweaks, and updates, including several new and improved features:

• Improved compatibility for Microsoft Windows and IIS
• Fixed the Since Last Visit module
• Better support for UTF-8

Review the Tiki 5.1 Release Notes (http://tikiwiki.org/ReleaseNotes5.1) and change log for complete information.

More than a dozen members of the Tiki Community have contributed over 140 updates to this release. All Tiki admins are encouraged to upgrade their sites to this latest release. See http://info.tikiwiki.org/Download for information on how to download this release.


Tiki 6 on the Horizon
Meanwhile, Tiki developers are hard at work on Tiki 6: the next generation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. The Tiki Community made great strides forward during the recent TikiFest in Barcelona. Early adopters can obtain the pre-release Tiki 6 from http://info.tikiwiki.org/Download for testing or to explore the new features in Tiki 6.

For details on Tiki 6, planned for release in October 2010, see http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Tiki6. Tiki 6 will succeed Tiki 3 as the Long Term Support (LTS) version.

The Tiki Community Software Association is proud to announce the 5.1 RC1 (release candidate) release of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. This latest release includes many fixes, tweaks, and updates.

Review the Tiki 5.1 Release Notes (http://tikiwiki.org/ReleaseNotes5.1) and change log for complete information.

Early adoptors can obtain this release candidate from Sourceforge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/files/) and are encouraged to report feedback and issues to the Tiki Community at: http://dev.tikiwiki.org.

The most recent TikiFest recently ended in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) on July 18. At this TikiFest, the second in Barcelona, more than 20 Tiki developers, consultants, and end-users met (including others via video conference) to work to improve and upgrade Tiki features, as well as to discuss the future of Tiki development.

Led by long-time Tiki Community members (including some board members of the Tiki Software Community Association) Marc (marclaporte), Louis-Philippe (lph), Jean-Marc (jyhem), Jonny (jonnyb) and Xavi (xavi), great progress was made for the next major Tiki release. Tiki 6, planned for October 2010), will include many of the items discussed and coded during this TikiFest, such as:

• Payment system using "CCLite" (a free software web application to support Community Currency management within and among barter networks)
• Fixing encoding issues (when upgrading Tiki under certain specific scenarios)
• Cron-like features (such as automatically changing tracker item status and sending email users if their tracker items do change within a specific amount of time. This is especially useful for Barter networks and Bug Trackers.
• Identifying ways (through the Newsletters and Group Watches featurse) to allow Tiki site administrators to easily distribute content to users, while allowing the users an option to unsubscribe
• New profile "Easy Blog" to easily install common blogging features (such as blog archives, image headers, etc.) for Tiki sites (http://profiles.tikiwiki.org/Easy+Blog )

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of its first promotional video: How to get help.

In this video, recorded in March 2010, Gary Cunningham-Lee explains how new Tiki Community members can get help with their Tiki sites. Gary is a long-time Tiki contributor and a member of the Tiki Software Community Association.



Watch the complete video at: http://bit.ly/ddczzU.

A series of video clips, released under a Creative Commons license, will be made available for interested parties. Daniel Gauthier, a member of the Tiki Community and the filmmaker of these clips says, "I've created these video clips for a very specific purpose: To help developers, technology decision makers and companies like ISPs who normally know about Open Source Development projects understand the richness of the Tiki Community."