Getting Involved with the Community

TWiki is an open source project with 10+ years of history, built by a team of volunteers from around the world, and used by millions of people in over 100 countries.

"The TWiki community strives to create the best enterprise collaboration platform in terms of usability, quality, feature set, extensibility and security. Do you use open source software? Are you a coder, tech writer or evangelist? I invite you to join the TWiki team to work on sexy new features!" -- PeterThoeny, Founder and BDFL of TWiki.org

Why get involved?

• More contributions mean a better TWiki product and less work -- for you and other members.
• As a contributor you can influence the direction of the project. Your words become part of the conversation that steers the TWiki project.
• Contributing helps you learn faster -- TWiki internals as well as web technologies. Learn by explaining TWiki to someone else, creating a plugin or fixing a bug.
• More contributions mean more business for you. Your work is public, so customers and employers can learn your name and admire your skills.
• Contributions attract good people -- developers, designers, writers, students, project managers, business owners.

Get Involved!

TWiki is an open source project with 10+ years of history, built by a team of volunteers from around the world, and used by millions of people in over 100 countries. The community is focusing on building the best collaboration platform for the workplace. We invite you to get involved!

Ready to get involved?

It does not take much time commitment to help out. You can chose one of the sample projects listed below, or propose a new one. See also other ways to get involved in the box above. TWiki.org has a friendly community that likes to help you get started.

• Get to know the community on IRC on a biweekly release meeting. The next release meeting is on 2012-05-25.
• Help define the JerusalemReleaseFocus

Some Sample Coding Projects - Grab one that is not taken and implement it!
	Convert the JSCalendarContrib into a plugin and name it DatePickerPlugin -- see comments ScottCranston is currently coding this			Improve TagMePlugin - Ajax-ify the tagging plugin using jQuery
	Convert the RatingContrib into a plugin and name it StarRatingPlugin -- see comments			Improve SetGetPlugin - make it grok JSON syntax and calc -- see comments
	Create a EncryptPlugin - many companies would love to have a way to securely store passwords in TWiki -- see comments CraigMeyer is currently coding this			PluginBenchmarks - we need a better plugin benchmarking tool
	Create a TWikiDrawSvgPlugin - an SVG based draw plugin to replace the TWikiDrawPlugin -- see comments			Web-based way to empty Trash -- see details GeorgeTrubisky and PaulReiber are currently coding this
	Create a ListPlugin to control bullet lists, such as the start number of ordered lists -- see details			Enhance usability of the SlideShowPlugin to support S5 or other Javascript/CSS solutions for better presentations -- see comments
	Create a SurveyPlugin to conduct and manage user surveys -- see comments			Add piechart feature to ChartPlugin
	Create a ImageSelectionPlugin to manage user profile pictures -- see details			Fix the OpenIdRpContrib to work with TWiki-5.0 and enhance integration to use the new user data management API and GUI IanKluft is currently coding this
	Enhance the CalendarPlugin with GUI to add/change events; support hourly events; import and export of iCalendar events			Create an auto-save feature for TWiki: Save topic text periodically to a temporary location to reduce the chance of losing content in edit sessions -- see discussions
	Database backend to store TWiki topics - as an option to flat-file data store -- see details			Allow free-form topic names, e.g. less geeky than WikiWords -- see details
	Simplify skin creation, with the goal to make it very easy for integrators to create a new skin -- see details			Move to jQuery - TWiki-5.0 already standardized on jQuery, but Behaviour dependency needs to be removed in various places -- see details
	Combine functionality of JumpBox and search into a single search box -- see proposal PeterThoeny is currently coding this			Point and click access control with GUI to manage groups: Select users into a group; select a group to restrict access to a web -- see details
	Update JSPopupPlugin to use the JQueryPlugin instead of the YahooUserInterfaceContrib -- see details			Update TWikiForWindowsPersonal to use the latest TWiki-5.1 release
	Create an Ubunty Linux distribution of TWiki-5.1 for an easy install: apt get twiki			Create a TwitterPlugin to link @somename to the Twitter website, and to show Twitter widgets in TWiki pages -- see details
	Make topic summary optionally based on search terms -- see details SteveMokris is currently coding this			Create a WantedPagesPlugin that lists pages waiting to be created, e.g. red-links indicating non-existing pages -- see details TylerSlijboom is currently coding this
	Update & simplify AutoCompletePlugin to use the JQueryPlugin instead of the YahooUserInterfaceContrib -- see details			Many core features are waiting to be implemented, see list at TWikiFeatureProposals

Samples of Recently Finished Projects

	API and GUI to manage user data. Implemented by SopanShewale and PeterThoeny			Flag to force a password change. Implemented by SopanShewale and PeterThoeny
	Parameterized variables, aka a macro language for TWiki. Implemented by ChrisLahti			Support for authenticated proxy server. Implemented by PeterThoeny
	Support relative heading levels for INCLUDE. Implemented by PeterThoeny			ReputationPlugin to create and maintain user reputation in a TWiki site Implemented by JoonaKannisto
	GitPlugin to enable a distributed operation of TWiki, where multiple TWiki sites are synchronized with each other. Implemented by ThomasWeigert			ColorPickerPlugin offering a color picker input widget for TWiki Forms and TWiki applications. Implemented by PeterThoeny
	ScrollBoxAddOn to add scrolling text, logo rolls and image rotation to TWiki pages. Implemented by PeterThoeny			QRCodePlugin to show QR Code barcodes in TWiki pages. Implemented by PeterThoeny
	Add sparklines feature to ChartPlugin -- see comments Implemented by TaitCyrus			Create a SliderControlPlugin - more usable TWiki applications -- see comments Implemented by AaronLWalker
	RecentVisitorPlugin to show statistics of recent visitors to a TWiki site. Implemented by PeterThoeny			More visual user profile pages with picture selection and status updates Implemented by PeterThoeny
	Automatically updated site statistics page. Implemented by PeterThoeny			Read-only skin mode. Implemented by PeterThoeny
	S/Mime support for notification e-mails. Implemented by TimotheLitt			Improve attachment-to-Trash flow. Implemented by GeorgeTrubisky
	BackupRestorePlugin to backup and restore TWiki, and to upgrade content from an older TWiki -- see details Implemented by PeterThoeny			Create point and click bookmarks for better usability -- see details Implemented by PeterThoeny
	Create a VMware-based TWiki virtual appliance running TWiki-5.1.0 on CentOS guest OS Implemented by PeterThoeny			Create a new SendMailPlugin to send e-mail from TWiki applications Implemented by PeterThoeny

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 2012-01-19

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