OpenGuides in five minutes
OpenGuides Project
OpenGuides is...
- ... a wiki
- ... many wikis
- ... a Perl project (CPAN)
OpenGuides is...
- ... a wiki with structured data
- ... targetted at a set of needs
OpenGuides is...
- ... a collaborative city guide
Some facts
- 24 guides
- London guide: 16,000 edits to 3,500 pages
What we need
- Developers
- Guide admins
- Content creators
an Open Problem
- Satisfying the demands of a collaborative web application is definitely an Open Problem
- 93 open tickets
Current goals
- Much better mobile device support
- Single portal site that lets you tap into local guides automatically
- Better default styling
- Some web UI modernisations
- Photo integration
Guide admins
- Local communities
- Setting up application on a server you already have
- Looking after the content
Content creators
- Local knowledge
- If you've used a wiki..
- Take a camera and GPS