Today the decision was made and it was a good one! :)

See the TIncubator-article for more information.

So, I have way too much university work still in front of me. One thing is a course that focuses on knowledge representation. Doing this course was my free will, I have to choose two from a bunch of courses. Well, I thought this one is cool, it's simple, so I'll do it. Part of that course is to create a "Hypertext-application". Well, not so bad, I'm TikiDev, hm? Nah, it's not that simple. They have pretty strict rules about usability - what's a good thing imho. But my Tiki does much more than just be a Hypertext Application for some twelve pages(that's the minimum you got to do for that course). I really don't know, how they will react on things like categorization, function menus on the side etc. Generally that's all a good thing, but if they say, that it makes the interface too overloaded, then I got a problem. ;)

So, my plan is to say, that I made a Hypertext Application that is embedded into the TIncubator - and that is the truth actually. The TIncubator is meant to be a bunch of Hypertext Applications not only for representing knowledge, but for creating it collaboratively. /Open .*/ Rock is one of its project (hotbeds) and it got a Hypertext Application of its own. I think I could gain full points for this with a Multi Tiki installation. That would allow me to clean up the interface completely. But let's see what they think of it - since I didn't customize Tiki too heavily, this could be some kind of TU Ilmenau usability certificate for Tiki.. ;)

I'm going to customize the structure browsing of luciash's simple.css, make a How To Use page and then submit it.

So, it has been two days now since the end of LinuxTag 2005. What is the conclusion? First of all: It was worth it! :)

I got to see a lot of Open Source people live for the first time and I have to say, that I'm not disappointed at all!! They are just as nice as you would think and the atmosphere is just astonishingly great!

TikiWiki was promoted pretty well, without having a booth. That's not mainly due to running around with a tw.o-shirt, but more because of having talked to people that didn't know about it. That includes people from: WINE, Zope, Mayflower, credativ, Gentoo, the FSF, Nokia and last but surely not least independent users.
By the way, at Nokia I met two more finns! I forgot to blog that before, but that was cool - gave me the opportunity to speak finish again! :)

Ok, time for this year's awards: ;)

1. LAMP-Area
2. O'Reilly
3. Linux Hotel (not enough chairs, but apart from that.. ;) )

1. Horde (Have you seen?!? Horde can do that and this and it's SO beautifully done!)
2. Microsoft (Some people knew it, but the others ran around and couldn't understand that Windows XP runs Unix in parallel with shared memory)
3. WINE (Well, perhaps this is just my impression, haven't heard much from other people, but I guess they are well known now! ;) )

1. Guantanamo is everywhere ;)
2. tw.o DevJersey
3. Team Gentoo

1. Uwe Bonnes of WINE (just plain cool)
2. Lars Kneschke of eGroupWare (always joking)
3. Aaron Wormus of PEAR (just plain nice)

Bye, bye, LinuxTag 2005

Just like it wouldn't have been enough to change trains five times, one of them didn't arrive at all and I had to take another one, that made one change more necessary. Finally at the last station there was no more train going to lovely Ilmenau. Deutsche Bahn then sponsored cab rides home for everybody. That was a great thing, since like this I didn't have to walk home from the train station.. ;)