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Collaborative Academy Collaborative Academy

Ales Cepek and Jan Pytel Ales Cepek and Jan Pytel CTU in Prague CTU in Prague

MediaWiki MediaWiki collaborative software collaborative software

• Free Software for Information

Free Software for Information Infrastructure and software patents Infrastructure and software patents

• Presentation of Geoinformatics study at

Presentation of Geoinformatics study at CTU Prague CTU Prague

• New

New wiki wiki of Czech users of GRASS

• f Czech users of GRASS

Practical experience from projects: Practical experience from projects:

Geoinformatics study, CTU Prague Geoinformatics study, CTU Prague

• Opening 2006 as an alternative to

Opening 2006 as an alternative to traditional program in geodesy and traditional program in geodesy and cartography cartography

• Presented in Cairo 2005

Presented in Cairo 2005

• Introducing project oriented

Introducing project oriented education, software development education, software development

• Much inspiration from Virtual

Much inspiration from Virtual Academy and comm. 2 meetings Academy and comm. 2 meetings

Marketing new study program Marketing new study program

• Need of an alternative to the

Need of an alternative to the traditional static web pages traditional static web pages

• Dynamically generated web pages

Dynamically generated web pages

• Dominant technology today

Dominant technology today … … PHP PHP

• Our choice was

Our choice was MediaWiki MediaWiki for for collaborative writing collaborative writing

MediaWiki MediaWiki

http: / / en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ MediaWiki http: / / en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ MediaWiki MediaWiki MediaWiki is a is a Wiki Wiki software software package package licensed under the licensed under the GNU General GNU General Public License Public License. It is a feature . It is a feature-

• rich

rich wiki wiki implementation written primarily implementation written primarily for for Wikipedia Wikipedia and other and other Wikimedia Wikimedia Foundation Foundation projects, but also used projects, but also used by many other by many other wikis wikis. .

Software patents Software patents

• dirrective on the patentability of computer

dirrective on the patentability of computer implemented inventions implemented inventions

• heavily promoted by European Councel

heavily promoted by European Councel

• Opposed by

Opposed by Foundation for Free Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure and many Information Infrastructure and many

• thers
• thers
• MediaWiki was our major working horse

MediaWiki was our major working horse

• Dirrective rejected by the European

Dirrective rejected by the European Parliament on 6 Parliament on 6 th

th July 2005 by a massive

July 2005 by a massive majority majority

GRASSwikiCZ GRASSwikiCZ

Practical issues Practical issues

• Free Software

Free Software

• Easy to install

Easy to install

• Trivial usage, learning by examples

Trivial usage, learning by examples

• Lack of hierarchical structure

Lack of hierarchical structure

• Several virtual servers on a single

Several virtual servers on a single machine machine

• Collaborative environment

Collaborative environment

300 Anniversary of CTU 300 Anniversary of CTU

• Workshop/ Conference

Workshop/ Conference “ “ From From Surveying to Geoinformatics Surveying to Geoinformatics” ”

• Curricula as the main topic

Curricula as the main topic

• Papers published on

Papers published on MediaWiki MediaWiki

• Virtual participants accepted

Virtual participants accepted

• Supported by ICA

Supported by ICA

• FIG ?

FIG ?

We hope to meet you in Prague We hope to meet you in Prague

Thank you for your attention Thank you for your attention