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1. First TWiki community summit yields positive results
2. TWiki meetups
3. WYSIWYG nitty gritty
4. Block-level 'IF' is quite easy, really
5. TWiki Usability Tricks Pt1: Turn your index into a sitemap

1. First TWiki community summit yields positive results

On august 15th - 16th the first ever TWiki community summit was held in Rome. The event was sponsered by TWIKI.NET, the recently introduced provider of a commercial, certified TWiki distribution. The summit was attended by 12 people, among which a large number of long-time contributors. All attendants left the meeting with a very positive feeling, which is not surprising given the constructive dialogues and important decisions made.

https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-08-20-first-twiki-community-summit-yields-positive-results

2. TWiki meetups

The success of the TWikiCommunitySummitRome2007 inspired those present in having lots of local meet ups. Rome clearly showed how inspiring and helpful face to face meetings are. Besides, it is also fun to meet your fellow TWiki administrators, developers, contributors and users. A meetup can be anything, from an informal meeting in your local pub once every while to an organized event with renowned speakers. You, as a TWiki community member, make the meetings.

https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-08-25-twiki-meetups

3. WYSIWYG nitty gritty

The upcoming 4.2-beta release will feature a new wysiwyg editor: TinyMCE. This editor will replace Kupu, the wysiwyg editor that shipped with TWiki before. Together with the introduction of TinyMCE, a lot of improvements have been made to the infrastructure that supports the wysiwyg editor. Crawford Currie has put a tremendous amount of work in the improvements. He has written an elaborate piece on the TWiki blog detailing the infrastructure and the way wysiwyg editors interact with the browser.

https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-08-27-wysiwyg-nitty-gritty

4. Block-level 'IF' is quite easy, really

As an experiment, more to see if it was possible or not, Crawford Currie extended %SECTION to support an "if" type and an ELSE clause. This lets you write something like this:

%SECTION{type="if" condition="defined FLUB"}%
FLUB is defined
%ELSESECTION%
FLUB is not defined
%ENDSECTION%

https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-09-01-block-level-if-is-quite-easy-really

5. TWiki Usability Tricks Pt1: Turn your index into a sitemap

Carlo Schulz kicks off a series of usability articles on the TWiki blog with a trick on how to generate a sitemap for your TWiki site. The sitemap, a hierarchical display of the topics in a web, provides an alternative to the linear WebIndex and WebTopicList that explicates the structure on your site.

https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/2007-09-12-twiki-usability-tricks-pt1-turn-your-index-into-a-sitemap

-- Contributors: KoenMartens - 18 Sep 2007

Discussion

Would be great to have this as an automatic RSS feed instead of TWiki's default WebRss.

-- MichaelDaum - 18 Sep 2007

You mean like RssFeed ??

-- KoenMartens - 18 Sep 2007

Ah, missed that one as it is not advertised in the html headers. We should move RssFeed to WebRss.

-- MichaelDaum - 19 Sep 2007