I am a research assistent at the
University of Hamburg,
Department of Computer Science in the
Natural Language Systems Group.
My main job is
not focused on TWiki or content management systems, albeit I've been
TWikiing the last 4 years since I installed a beijing for our web appearance working parttime
on it. It quickly
became obvious that this stuff needed some little tweaks here and there to make it
actually usable. So I started to develop the
NatSkin incl supplemental plugins ,
push TWiki as far as possible with two of goals in mind: usability and speed.
Actually, TWiki falls short considerably here. Nevertheless, TWiki is fun (hm ....)
I quickly found out that I could alleviate part of that pain (don't letting nit look like a wiki).
Well, now then I ended
up with a hacked beijing and hacked plugins with a hard time to get my botches out to the
TWikiCommunity again. This time I'd like to contribute immediately as I switch over to Dakar.
These are my current and past TWiki activities:
These are my future plans:
... and yes, get my PhD done.
Some of this might get directed to one of my student helpers here at the university that get
payed for that (not the PhD
)
Conclusion: I'm too late with tons of stuff I'd like to share with y'all. Most of that is doable
w/o write acces to DEVELOP, but anyhow I'd like to help Dakar to become ready by getting some
of the smaller buglets out. While doing the
NatSkin port I came accross some issues
of TWiki that show it still being coupled to the
PatternSkin in a rather tight mannor.
Most probably I will come up with some
PatchProposals that address that ...
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MichaelDaum - 26 Mar 2005
It would be really good to pull your experience into the
DevelopBranch. I don't mind putting in small patches for people, but at this stage I'm starting to think that the more eyes we have looking at the code, and the more checker-inners able to fix it when it goes wrong, the better.
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CrawfordCurrie - 26 Mar 2005
Welcome to DEVELOP, Michael!
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SvenDowideit - 02 Apr 2005
Michael, thank you very much for contributing so much to the
TWikiCommunity! Welcome to DEVELOP!
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PeterThoeny - 31 Aug 2005