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Michael Daum

Michael's homepage at TWikiDotOrg

Update 2008-11-24: You will find further updates of my work at Foswiki.

Update 2009-02-18: To all users of my TWiki contributions listed below: As I am still locked out from my plugins I can't provide you with any help or feedback on this site. For instance, people still have problems using TWiki+LDAP (see LdapNgPluginDev and LdapContribDev). The reported problems have been fixed in the latest version of the related LdapContrib on foswiki.org. You are welcome to upgrade to Foswiki to get a working LDAP integration. -- Michael

Clarification: It is Michael's choice to not agree to the TWikiCodeOfConduct, so there is no lockout. The TWiki community continues to maintain the plugins posted on twiki.org. -- PeterThoeny

Update 2009-02-25: Clarification of the Clarification: People like me have contributed to TWiki for a decade under the assumption that "all material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors. " See the footer on every page. Nobody has the right to suddenly demand any extra agreement to get access to his/her own property. This isn't even covered by trademark rights. I am not saying that the code of conduct is saying something that is not agreeable. It does not seem to say anything more specific or different than the way TWiki has been run for years anyway. It's real purpose is to "weed out the good and the bad" just to cite TWiki.net itself. I am not willing to jump through a red hoop like a drilled poodle just to get back the rights that have been taken away from me.

Update 2009-04-07: Reaction on CodersForHire: fact is that there was never a legal foundation for installing an extra code of conduct by twiki.net and hope the community would "opt in" again without popular outrage. This act was repeatedly called kick-out and hostile take over for good reasons. People are permanently locked out and have no access rights anymore on their own property. Twiki.net now owns the trademark that it bought from Peter Thoeny who said to "take care of it on behalf of the community". Twiki.net refused to offer a license to the twiki community and its consultants to continue the project. These actions nuked all of its consulting eco-system. Most consultancies that offered services around TWiki are in the process of discontinuing offers as a direct consequence of the legal dubiety that culminated in the creation of the Foswiki project. Foswiki on the other hand continues where it left behind TWiki by offering a rich eco-system combining community & commerce business in a fruitful way.

Therefore, saying "Peter Thoeny kicked out all Forkers in the TWiki-pages CodersForHire and TWikiConsultants. It's definitely a TWIKI.NET-kingdom now." is actually no fud. It quite accurately describes the status quo on the twiki.org project. Don't know, how anybody could now state twiki.org is not a twiki.net-kingdom with a straight face.

Hi, I am a wiki consultant situated in Hamburg, Germany. My main interest currently is in helping companies to manage their knowledge as well as the skills of their employees using web two-dot-oh technologies, while not letting loose quality assuring processes. Wikis have got a lot of advantages fostering collaboration on a much broader scale than most other fully structured systems. However, while wikis' non-structuredness comes as a blessing first, people are quite lost how to map their business processes onto such a tool in a fruitful and sustainable way...

I've been part of the TWikiCommunity for a couple of years now and have been contributing lots of plugins and extensions (see below). Apart from nourishing my family and me, my work as a full time TWiki consultant is constantly floating back to TWiki (as long as it is not covered by an NDA obviously) to support a great great Open Source project and make it as rich and colorful as we all love it.

This site (twiki.org) might be wild and shaggy. Don't get frustrated if you don't find what you are looking for at first. Hey, it is a wiki running for a very long time now and people keep adding stuff all the time. Remember this is an Open Source project and all of our processes are captured somehow on this site. You are right saying we could do better organizing and even plain throw away stuff on twiki.org, but that's not in my hands alone.

Let me close in saying that any wiki you will get from one of my TWiki consultant mates here on twiki won't be like this, not in design nor in information structure.

So have a nice day and keep looking around. Yours, Michael.

Contact Details

Name:
Michael Daum ... formerly known as MichaelSchulz
Email:
info@michaeldaumconsultingPLEASENOSPAM.com
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Blog:
Social Networks:
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Companies & Organizations:
  • Michael Daum Consulting
  • Co-founder of the WikiRing Partnership
  • Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg: Research Assistant in the Natural Language Systems Division
Location:
Hamburg, Germany
Background:
high performance computing, optimization techniques, information retrieval, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, content management, web design and usability, information architecture, knowledge management
Services:
If you need help with any of these plugins or if you are in need of any TWiki consulting services, contact me via Michael Daum Consulting or at the WikiRing Partnership.

TWiki Contributions

  1. AliasPlugin: Define aliases which will be replaced with arbitrary strings automatically
  2. BibtexPlugin: Embeds BibTeX entries in a TWiki page
  3. BlogPlugin: Basic blogging features used to implement the BlogUp TWikiApplication
  4. BreadCrumbsPlugin: A flexible way to display breadcrumbs navigation
  5. DBCachePlugin: Lightweighted frontend to the DBCacheContrib
  6. DakarContrib: Dakar compatibility module for Plugins that need some of the
  7. EditChapterPlugin: An easy section editing facility
  8. FilterPlugin: Substitute and extract information from content by using regular expressions
  9. FlexWebListPlugin: Flexible way to display hierarchical weblists
  10. GluePlugin: Enable TWikiML to span multiple lines
  11. HeadlinesPlugin: Show headline news in TWiki pages based on RSS and ATOM news feeds from external sites
  12. IfDefinedPlugin: Render content conditionally
  13. ImageGalleryPlugin: Displays image gallery with auto-generated thumbnails from attachments.
  14. ImagePlugin: Control the display and alignment of images using an easy syntax
  15. JQueryPlugin: jQuery JavaScript library for TWiki
  16. LdapContrib: LDAP services for TWiki
  17. LdapNgPlugin: Query and display data from an LDAP directory
  18. MathModePlugin: Include LaTeX formatted math in your TWiki pages
  19. MediaWikiTablePlugin: Format tables the MediaWiki way
  20. MediaWikiToTWikiAddOn: MediaWiki 2 TWiki Conversion Tool
  21. NatEditContrib: A Wikiwyg Editor
  22. NatSkin: Driven by cascading stylesheets, Comes with 12 alternative styles, MoveableType and Wordpress Look-n-Feel
  23. NatSkinPlugin: Supplements the bare bones NatSkin theme for TWiki
  24. NewUserPlugin: Create a user topic if it does not exist yet
  25. PingBackPlugin: Pingback service for TWiki
  26. RedDotPlugin: Renders edit-links as little red dots
  27. RenderPlugin: Render TWikiApplications asynchronously
  28. TagCloudPlugin: Renders a tag cloud given a list of terms
  29. TimeSincePlugin: Display time difference in a human readable way
  30. UserInfoPlugin: Render information about users on your TWikiSite
  31. VotePlugin: Simple way to count votes
  32. XmlRpcContrib: XML-RPC services for TWiki

See also: MichasTWikiRadar, MichasTWikiContributions, RenderWikiRingLink, MichasTests, BlogUpRing, MichasSandbox, MichasGuestBook

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