GatorLUG Meeting | 2013-05-15 | 6-8pm | Federated Wiki & Interaction with the Physical World | Ward Cunningham

[Clinton Collins]

Greetings All,

You are invited to join us at the next GatorLUG meeting in beautiful
Gainesville, Florida.

This month we will meet in Gainesville Hackerspace. Unlike most of the
places we meet you'll have to patronize the surrounding restaurants and
bars for food and drink. The Hackerspace has snacks and sometimes soda but
it's not guaranteed.

The main reason for meeting at the Hackerspace is that there is good
network bandwidth there and the speaker will be streaming in to us from
Oregon.

This will be great opportunity to meet the man who created the Wiki and to
ask him questions about his latest project - Smallest Federated Wiki.

Meetings are always free and open to the general public.

More information about the current meeting with a map link:

http://www.gatorlug.org/node/337

More information about GatorLUG: http://www.gatorlug.org/node/10

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GatorLUG Meeting Agenda for May 15, 2013

6:00 - 6:15 Announcements / General Discussion

6:15 - 7:50 Federated Wiki & Interaction with the Physical World | Ward
Cunningham

Ward Cunningham will remote in to talk about his current project - the
Smallest Federated Wiki. While most wikis are centralized, with multiple
editors contributing, each federated wiki belongs to a single person, with
sharing between wikis. Our new wiki innovates three ways. It shares
through federation, composes by refactoring and wraps data with
visualization.

"I wrote the first wiki in a week. Why has it taken me a year to write
another? Short answer: when something is already surprisingly simple its
hard to make it simpler".

We'll also see an example of using the Federated Wiki to interact with the
physical world. Sensors can be used to populate the wiki with data and
then that data can be manipulated and acted upon.

Ward Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first
wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he
started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on
the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham (commonly
known by its domain name, c2.com), on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the
Portland Pattern Repository.

7:50 - 8:00 Open discussion, meet and greet someone new

See you there,

Clinton Collins, President
GatorLUG, Gainesville, Florida
http://www.gatorlug.org <http://www.gatorlug.org/>