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03/08/2007 Archived Entry: "March 27, 2007: Pizza and TWiki Talk"

TWiki's Peter Thoeny will be talking about wikis, knowledge management, and the business. Peter is one of those visionary entrepreneurs who are making money by producing open-source software.

Barclays Global Investors will once again sponsor Little Star Pizza. This means it's important to RSVP, to Jeff.Thalhammer@barclaysglobal.com. (Otherwise, we might not order enough.)

Read on for location details and Peter's description of the talk.

RSVP: Jeff.Thalhammer@barclaysglobal.com

Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Time: 8:00 p.m.

Place: Barclays Global Investors, 45 Fremont St., San Francisco

Security: When you arrive, please tell the security people the name with which you RSVP'd. They will direct you to the meeting room.

Parking: There are several outdoor lots with cheap evening rates, all of them south of Market and within a few blocks of 45 Fremont. Look on Harrison and Fremont first. After work hours, these lots usually have plenty of spaces.

From BART: Get off at the Embarcadero station. Take the Beale St. exit. Heading away from the water on Market, come to Fremont. Turn left on Fremont; 45 Fremont is the big building halfway down the block.

From Caltrain: (Don't take Caltrain if you can avoid it. Trains run back at 10:00 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. only!) From the station, take the N Judah to the Embarcadero station, then follow the directions from BART.

Here's Peter's description of the talk:

Wiki Collaboration and Wiki Applications for the Workplace

A wiki is a website where anyone with a browser can create and maintain web content. It enables teams to organize and share content and knowledge in an organic and free manner, and to schedule, manage and document their daily activities. A wiki is also used as an intranet where employees contribute content collaboratively, replacing a webmaster maintained intranet. This talk explains what wikis are and how they are used, covers social aspects and security concerns, and teaches how to roll out a wiki. It also explains how teams can use TWiki, an open-source wiki for the enterprise, to build tailored wiki applications supporting their workflow and processes.

Attendees will learn what wikis are and how they can be applied to the enterprise; the wiki culture and ways of collaboration it offers; how to successfully roll out a wiki; and how situational wiki applications can support business processes.

Biography

Peter Thoeny is the founder of TWiki, the leading Wiki for corporate collaboration and knowledge management. Managing the open-sourced project for the last seven years, Peter invented the concept of structured wikis - where free form wiki content can be structured with tailored wiki applications.

He is a recognized thought-leader in Wikis and social software, featured in numerous articles and technology conferences including LinuxWorld, Business Week, Wall Street Journal and more. A software developer with over 15 years experience, Peter specializes in software architecture, user interface design and web technology.

He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, lived in Japan for 8 years working as an engineering manager for Denso building CASE tools, and managed the Knowledge Engineering group at Wind River for several years. He is currently working on a book on wikis for the workplace.

Peter co-founded StructuredWikis LLC, a company offering services that allows teams to use wikis to improve productivity and communication through basic and advanced application of wikis.