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[Marc Laporte]

Hi!

I (Marc, not Mike) wrote the blurb about Tiki.

I agree the ideal is to have data which can be plugged and used 
everywhere. "make it easy for people to plug their own stuff into it, 
and adapt their set of tools, rather than encourage them to use the same 
ones."

At the same time, it is important to have, as early as possible, 
something which works so it encourages people to adapt their tools. For 
example, I like following what the fine people at Drupal & Horde are 
doing. When they have something which works, we can learn from their 
experience and make it work in Tiki. Once enough of the major web 
applications adopt a standard/data format/whatever, that's when it 
becomes truly powerful.

A good example of what works is RSS. A painful example is sharing 
calendar data.

I recently saw this initiative. It looks very good:
http://microformats.org/

Best regards,

M ;-)


Saul Albert wrote:

>hi Mike :)
>
>On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:09:02PM -0400, Michael Lenczner wrote:
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>>Tiki has a very powerful wiki, an image gallery, full RSS handling, an
>>event calendar and many many other features.  Where it becomes
>>interesting is the tight links/integration between features. For
>>example, it is possible to assign Latitude & Longitude to users &
>>images. Tags are in the works for the next release.
>>    
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>
>I might have said it before, I'll say it again, I'm totally blown away by
>what you guys have achieved, and it makes me inspired every time I think
>about it.
>
>(does that sound ominous rather than congratulatory?)
>
>The approach we've tried to take (when I say we, I mean primarily Jo and
>our collaborators, I'm just the fluffer) is highly modular. 
>
>At the basis of everything we're trying to do I see the Free Map - a
>free, publically lisenced global geodata repository that is used and fed
>into by many processes and interfaces.
>
>The intention is to reach a stage where there is enough semantically
>marked-up spatialised information around to start doing some really
>interesting analysis, creating otherwise impossible services and
>information flows, and releasing squeeking armies of bots to go and drag
>back tasty nuggets of information to where we can see, and more
>importantly, use them.
>
>erm... 
>
>Basically, the main point is to gather and geocode data by making it as
>easy as possible to plug your data source / blog / CMS / whatever, into
>the Free Map, and then for you to keep that information in a way that it
>remains traversable and live. 
>
>The best way to do that seemed to build lots of modules with nice APIs,
>and make it easy for people to plug their own stuff into it, and adapt
>their set of tools, rather than encourage them to use the same ones.
>
>But that's London for you.
>
>All the best, and thanks again for the inspiration,
>
>Saul.
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M ;-)

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