Videos tagged with Community

Summary Brion Vibber discusses the challenges of working with user communities, social bottlenecks, the Wikipedia article deletion process, scalability of software vs communities, new approaches to scaling communities, ongoing challenges with MediaWiki community, using git to scale the code commit process, automated Wikipedia edit filtering, flagged protection pages, and remaining challenges to...

Summary Patrick Curran and Geir Magnusson discuss the role played by the standardization process and the lessons taken from the open source movement, one key aspect being related to reference implementations that are required from spec leaders. Bio Patrick Curran is Chair of the JCP. In this role he oversees the activities of the JCP Program Office including driving the process, leading the Exe...

Summary The state of the art in political technology evolved radically 2004-2008. In 2004, software development in Democratic political campaigns consisted of a few rag-tag hackers taking shots in the dark and building applications. In 2008, political start-ups built innovative social applications that raised nearly 1/2 billion dollars, and elected a President. Bio Martin Fowler is an author, s...

Summary In this keynote, Mitch Kapor, looks back at disruptive technologies, like the PC, and derives insights which he then uses to project a possible future for the Web, including the "social web," 'data scarcity and data abundance," and "startups on the cheap. Bio Mitchell Kapor is a pioneer of the personal computing revolution as an entrepreneur, software designer, activist, and investor. H...

Summary Facebook offers an open standards platform for creating social network applications. Josh Elman discusses the concept of social networking and how the Facebook platform addresses issues of identity, of social graphing, and sharing (via its Open Stream API). His presentation explored the nature of a social graph and the "virtuous cylcle of sharing." Bio Josh Elman is a Platform Program M...

In the year and half since OpenSocial's public launch, there are now over 700 million end users of OpenSocial applications across numerous social sites (containers) around the world. With OpenSocial's proven global success in traditional social applications, the enterprise software community has now begun to realize its potential and build innovative solutions that cater to the enterprise. Join...

This Drupal video tutorial demonstrates: Configuring the forum module, checking site info, user preferences, theme re-configuration, how to plan for a community site. Created by elliottrothman

This Drupal video tutorial demonstrates: Creating multiple user accounts, access control, groups, basic security, removing the login block. Created by elliottrothman

We've recently launched Google Help Forums. This video is an introduction, and visit the forums here: http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=portal_groups.cs

Summary Brian Marick discusses what he means by micro-scale-retro-futurist-anachro-syndicalism and why we should go back to the roots of Agile. He talks about what he thinks were the mistakes in the Agile Manifesto, how it has lead to the state of the Agile community today, and how we can build better systems by making them so that they are much more easily tested. Bio Brian Marick (marick@exam...