Platonic Wikis and Subversive Social Interfaces Jonah Bossewitch Vienna Plone Conference September 20, 2005

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Platonic Wikis andSubversive Social
InterfacesJonah BossewitchVienna Plone
ConferenceSeptember 20, 2005

• This talk will consider Plone as a
  preeminent platform for deploying Social Software
  in a variety of configurations. We will also
  explore the affordances that a Plone environment
  fosters, and the expanding role of Software
  Architecture as a leading art. Finally, we will
  examine the ecology of the Plone project itself
  in light of this analysis.

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Innocent Questions

• Explain the differences between a blog, a wiki,
  and a forum?
• When should a community use which and why?
• Is plone a wiki?
• Is a wiki a CMS?
• WWJD?

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Social Software

• "A new generation of socio-technical systems
  that facilitate human expression, communication,
  and collaboration. (Ulises Ali Mejias)
• Social Interfaces - mediating human-human
  interaction (Joel Spolsky)
• ergonomicsuiuisocial interfaces
• Examples

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Modalities of Social Software

• Wikis and Blogs and Forums and Tagging
  (distributed classification)
• Proliferation and diffuse nature of these concepts

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The Platonic Forms

• Wiki's workflow, Blog's workflow, etc
• It is all just rules and policy applied to
  content
• What's interesting are the variations and riffs
  around these familiar forms

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Tagging and Folksonomies

• Tagging as a social activity
• source http//dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04ham
  mond.html

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The Perfect CMS

• The workflow is arbitrarily configurable
• If it is truly arbitrary, might as well make it
  deliberate
• Impact Space

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Situated Within This Space

• Environments which foster one end or another
• One blog per person vs. shared blogging
• A Plone w/ open workflow as a wiki, Plone's
  news, etc

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Environmental Affordances

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Perceived Plone Landscape

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Actual Landscape

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Plone Process

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Plone Community

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Plone Ecology

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Sustainable Plone Evolution

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Case Studies

• Educational Multimedia Case Constructor
  (http//emcc.ccnmtl.columbia.edu)
• Post-Graduate Life-Long-Learning Plan
  (http//pgd.ccnmtl.columbia.edu)
• PloneStickies (http//plone.org/products/stickies)

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Appendix

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Software Architecture

• Affordances
• Leading art
• Behavior/Worldview

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Completing the Circle

• F/OSS as inflection point
• Values of developers embodied in features of
  system
• e.g. cc licenses

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Wiki Prayer

• Please, Grant me the serenity to accept the
  pages I cannot edit,
• The courage to edit the pages I can,
• And the wisdom to know the difference