[wikka-community] Killer feature for Wikka

[Dario Taraborelli]

Chris,

sounds great - if you want to have a chat why don't you pop by on our  
IRC channel #wikka on freenode. net (see http://wikkawiki.org/ 
TheLounge). Some of us should be there at any time.

Time to time to dust off that old ticket on SVG support as a starter?
http://wush.net/trac/wikka/ticket/64

d

On 28 Feb 2008, at 17:47, Christopher Marcum wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I would be interested in working on this project. I am a sociologist
> working on social networks problems and might be able to offer diagram
> (graph) features that would be useful outside of the flow-chart  
> paradigm.
>
> -Chris Marcum
> Calit2
> University of California -- Irvine
>
> Dario Taraborelli wrote:
>> Derrick,
>>
>>> I think a great addition would be to integrate a charting
>>> application like gliffy.
>>> http://www.gliffy.com/
>>>
>>> This would be a fantastic way to do things and only Confluence
>>> currently supports it which is proprietary.
>>
>>
>> I was discussing this with Olivier when I bumped into an interesting
>> post from a biologist blogger with a very similar suggestion:
>>
>> http://blog-msb.embo.org/blog/2007/04/a_visual_wiki_for_biological_n_1.html
>>
>> We are actually planning to submit as a team an application for the
>> Google SOC 2008: a project like this (a plugin introducing support  
>> for
>> collaborative editing of diagrams) sounds like a really promising  
>> idea
>> if anyone is interested in working on this.
>>
>> This could be part of a more general framework to implement support  
>> in
>> Wikka for different kinds of markup languages to be handled by
>> language-specific modules, each with their own editors and output
>> filters.
>>
>> d
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dario Taraborelli
>> Wikka Development Team
>> http://wikkawiki.org
>>