Hi, I am a wiki consultant situated in Hamburg, Germany. My main interest currently is in helping companies to manage their knowledge as well as the skills of their employees using web two-dot-oh technologies, while not letting loose quality assuring processes. Wikis have got a lot of advantages fostering collaboration on a much broader scale than most other fully structured systems. However, while wikis' non-structuredness comes as a blessing first, people are quite lost how to map their business processes onto such a tool in a fruitful and sustainable way.

That's where companies search for expert help to address the specific characteristics within their workflows. As a widely used platform, Foswiki is an excellent choice to implement wiki-style knowledge management and thus get access even to those hidden knowledge gems that are normally lost in everyday's business.

I've been an active member on the former TWiki project for a couple of years and am now committed to Foswiki, the community fork and successor of TWiki. (Read more about this split-up.). All extensions that I once have been contributing to TWiki will be continued on this new platform now. Plugins that are still available on TWiki.org are considered outdated.

For the next foreseeable time, all new versions will be developed with backwards-compatibility in mind. However, there will be a certain timeframe when this backwards-compatibility will be faded out. In the meantime we will maintain a backwards compatibility layer for Foswiki extensions to be used on the old TWiki engine, to ease a transition from the old to the new platform.

Note also, that we still provide professional support for TWiki as usual. Have a look at WikiConsultants to find the best wiki partner for your needs.

Contact Details

Name:

Michael Daum

Email:

info@michaeldaumconsulting.com

VoIP

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Blog:

• http://michaeldaumconsulting.com/blog/webhome
• http://blog.wikiring.com

Social Networks:

• Xing
• LinkedIn

URLs:

• http://michaeldaumconsulting.com
• WikiRing.com

Companies & Organizations:

• 
• Co-founder of the WikiRing Partnership

Location:

Hamburg, Germany

Background:

high performance computing, optimization techniques, information retrieval, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, content management, web design and usability, information architecture, knowledge management

Services:

Foswiki consulting services and software partner - contact Michael Daum Consulting.

Foswiki Contributions

Nr	Extension	Description	Classification	Version
1	AliasPlugin	Define aliases which will be replaced with arbitrary strings automatically	Interface and Visualisation, User interactivity	4415 (2009-07-03)
2	BibtexPlugin?
3	BlogPlugin?
4	BreadCrumbsPlugin	A flexible way to display breadcrumbs navigation	Information structuring and Search, Interface and Visualisation	4407 (2009-07-03)
5	DBCachePlugin	Lightweight frontend to the DBCacheContrib	Data and Files, Development, Information structuring and Search	4416 (2009-07-03)
6	EditChapterPlugin	An easy section editing facility	Interface and Visualisation, User interactivity	4371 (2009-07-02)
7	FilterPlugin	Substitute and extract information from content by using regular expressions	Development	4417 (2009-07-03)
8	FlexWebListPlugin	Flexible way to display hierarchical weblists	Development, Information structuring and Search	4372 (2009-07-02)
9	GenPDFPrincePlugin	'Generate PDF using Prince XML';	Exporting, Printing and Publishing	4419 (2009-07-03)
10	GluePlugin	Enable TopicMarkup to span multiple lines	Development	4420 (2009-07-03)
11	HeadlinesPlugin	Show headline news in Foswiki pages based on RSS and ATOM news feeds from external sites	Information structuring and Search	4421 (2009-07-03)
12	IfDefinedPlugin	Render content conditionally	Development	4422 (2009-07-03)
13	ImagePlugin	Control the display and alignment of images using an easy syntax	Data and Files, Interface and Visualisation	4424 (2009-07-03)
14	ImageGalleryPlugin	Displays image gallery with auto-generated thumbnails from attachments.	Data and Files, Interface and Visualisation	4425 (2009-07-03)
15	JQueryPlugin	jQuery JavaScript library for Foswiki	Development, Interface and Visualisation	4411 (2009-07-03)
16	LdapContrib	LDAP services for Foswiki	Admin, Development	4426 (2009-07-03)
17	LdapNgPlugin	Query and display data from an LDAP directory	Admin, Development	v3.00
18	MathModePlugin	Include LaTeX formatted math in a topic	Interface and Visualisation	4.01
19	MediaWikiTablePlugin	Format tables the MediaWiki way	Interface and Visualisation	v1.20
20	MediaWikiToFoswikiContrib	MediaWiki 2 Foswiki Conversion Tool	Data and Files	v2.0
21	NatEditPlugin	A Wikiwyg Editor	Interface and Visualisation, User interactivity	4410 (2009-07-03)
22	NatSkin		Interface and Visualisation	4413 (2009-07-03)
23	NatSkinPlugin	Theming engine for NatSkin	Interface and Visualisation	4412 (2009-07-03)
24	NewUserPlugin	Create a user topic if it does not exist yet	Admin, Data and Files	v2.00
25	RedDotPlugin	Renders edit-links as little red dots	Interface and Visualisation	v2.01
26	RenderPlugin	Render WikiApplications asynchronously	Development	2.0
27	PingBackPlugin?
28	SetVariablePlugin	Flexible handling of topic variables	Development	1.00
29	TagCloudPlugin		Information structuring and Search, Interface and Visualisation
30	TimeSincePlugin	Display time difference in a human readable way	Interface and Visualisation	v3.00
31	TopicNameValidationPlugin	Control naming of topics	Data and Files, Security	1.0
32	UploadPlugin	Attach multiple files to a topic in one go	Interface and Visualisation, User interactivity	20090703 (2009-07-03)
33	VotePlugin	Simple way to count votes	User interactivity	4084 (2009-06-10)
34	XmlRpcContrib?

Note to users and potential contributors of these plugins

If you find an error or want to provide an improvement, please file a bug item outlining what you are trying to achieve and how to reproduce the error. Take your time and make a screenshot. Says more than 1000 words sometimes.

The absolutely best would be if you have a patch that fixes the issue at hand. Any patch is more than welcome. Note also, that you may just get my 2cent comments on the patch and the patch will be rejected at first. Try to improve it or convince me that I am wrong and your patch is spot on. Try to break down a larger improvement into sensible chunks of separated patches so that I can best see what you are trying to achieve.

If you have write access to Foswiki's subversion repository, don't just commit your patch to a plugin to trunk. Please let's talk about it first. Even though all the above contributions are Open Source, a software repository is only half of the story. It certainly does not replace communication that is needed to manage this software.

Thanks for being a nice fossie.