TikiFest Wrap-up -- Report from Boston

March 21, 2011 - PRLog -- The Tiki Community recently completed TikiFest Boston, the seventh code sprint in Boston. More than 20 community met to plan, discuss, and demonstrate Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Many of the new features included in Tiki 7 were demonstrated, including:
* Unified Search (based on Lucene)
* Tiki-powered web sites on mobile devices, using jQuery Mobile
* theme generator
*and much more!
Extensive work began on the revamp of Tiki Trackers -- a Tiki feature that allows users to create interactive forms and searchable datasets. Tiki 7 will include reorganized and streamlined code, allowing for easier enhancements in the future. Several TikiFesters also participated in a documentation sprint, in an effort to make the Tiki Docs more user-friendly and "catch up" to the current development.

The TikiFesters also joined the Boston jQuery Meet-up group. The event, "Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware and jQuery: the story of a successful integration," featured talks by Nelson Ko and Jonny Bradley. Ko and Bradley provided an overview of Tiki to the group and explained (and demoed) the jQuery integration that will be available in Tiki 7.

If you missed this event, don't worry. The Tiki Community plans to visit Paris, April 4 - 6, before embarking upon an ambitions, 4-continent Tiki Tour, this summer. Be sure to visit the Tiki Community calendar (https://info.tiki.org/tiki-calendar.php) for information on all upcoming events.

Tiki 7 is planned to be released at the end of April, 2010. Upon its release, Tiki 6.2 will become the long term support (LTS) version.

For more information on what to expect in Tiki 7, see http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki7 .

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A full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Smarty. Tiki is managed by the Tiki Software Community Association.