{"id":675,"date":"2012-02-27T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hibbets.net\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2012-02-27T13:13:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T18:13:45","slug":"triangle-wiki-day-a-huge-success-for-open-source-in-raleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hibbets.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/27\/triangle-wiki-day-a-huge-success-for-open-source-in-raleigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Triangle Wiki Day a Huge Success for Open Source in Raleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image credits: Laura Barnes Hamlyn<\/p><\/div>\n

Almost 50 people collaborated on February 25 at Red Hat headquarters<\/a>, currently located on Centennial Campus<\/a> in Raleigh, NC, to participate in Triangle Wiki Day<\/a>. The event was a soft launch of trianglewiki.org<\/a>, an effort to document the Triangle region and increase collaboration and knowledge sharing across the area. The wiki uses open source software, local wiki<\/a>, as a content management platform that includes wiki pages, images, and mapping.<\/p>\n

The day started off with a brief presentation<\/a> [PDF] by Jason Hibbets<\/a> on how the Triangle Wiki project fits in with the CityCamp Raleigh<\/a> movement, as well as the larger open government picture and civic innovation week, Code Across America<\/a>, by Code for America.<\/p>\n

Raleigh At-large City Councilor Mary Ann Baldwin keynoted at the event. She spoke briefly on the importance of collaborating on a project like Triangle Wiki. She also mentioned that she was wearing multiple hats: City Councilor, a marketer, and a member of the Innovate Raleigh<\/a> steering committee. Part of Triangle Wiki Day is to start mapping the assets<\/a> for the #InnovateRal<\/a> initiative and to be an authentic part of Raleigh\u2019s open source philosophy and open-minded communities.<\/p>\n

At-large City\u00a0Councilor Russ Stephenson and Raleigh Planning Director, Mitchell Silver<\/a>, were also in attendance.<\/p>\n

Reid Serozi<\/a>, Triangle Wiki project lead, provided the background on local wiki, showing a video<\/a> from Philip Neustrom, one of the project co-founders of local wiki and daviswiki.org<\/a>. Then he walked the attendees through wiki 101. We learned how to register an account, create new pages, and edit existing pages. After that, the edit party began.<\/p>\n

Right away, people started creating pages, collaborating with each other, and helping one another with wiki best practices, formatting, mapping, and more. By 10:30am ET, #triwiki<\/a> was trending on Twitter in Raleigh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The group made a lot of progress. Fueled by Klausie\u2019s Pizza<\/a> for lunch and a bunch of snacks and soda provided by organizers, here are the results of Triangle Wiki Day:<\/p>\n