TiddlyWest is a TiddlyWiki related event which took place in San Francisco on 18 June 2008.

We co-hosted this event with local TiddlyWiki legend, Eric Shulman, and would like to show our public gratitude to Kevin Welbach and the team at Wharton West for allowing us to host the event on their premises!

TiddlyWiki community member Tony Ching helpfully created these minutes (which we've updated with photos, videos, hyperlinks and names):

Use of TiddlyWiki with Confabb notesharer

Confabb is using TiddlyWiki in conjunction with their conference portal. A user can use Confabb for the agenda and authentication, and download a working copy of RippleRap directly from their site, fully populated with the agenda for that conference.

You can find more here: http://blog.confabb.com/?p=106

Simon McManus on ccTiddly serverside collaborative platform

http://www.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/CcTiddly

• A workspace is a TiddlyWiki file
  
• Users can create their own workspaces on the server
  
• Uses can upload files, but open permissions on server
  
• OpenID and LDAP support
  
• Basic User Management
  
• Supports a really super cool hot skin/theme by changing a parameter in the workspace url: ?skin=
  
• There was some talk of atom feeds or syndicating tiddlers in different ways
  
  

Eric Shulman of TiddlyTools on Customizing TiddlyWiki

Eric Shulman gave a presentation on customising TiddlyWiki. All the plugins used here can be downloaded from http://www.tiddlytools.com.

• Incredibly the presentation was done with TiddlyWiki and not powerpoint or keynote. Tiddlers were slides further extending the tiddler metaphor of mutable microcontent.
  
• He used his tasktimer plugin to time the presentation and ran an activity report/table afterwards.
  
• showed animation plugin shooting out words
  
• TiddlyWiki background image was an attached image as base64 dataURL not a link using his Attach image plugin
  
• Had story viewer plugin with arrows and drop list UI navigation
  
• goto plugin showed incremental search
  
• Customizations in 3 ways
  
  • templates
    
  • stylesheet
    
  • plugins
    
• Eric is a natural TiddlyWikiTeacher
  
  • If you like his clear lucid explanations of TW on this group. He is even better in person. It was a great refresher on TW internals.
    
  • O'Reilly needs too, no wait make that Manning needs to send Eric a book publishing agreement. He can truly author something like TiddlyWiki, the Missing Manual
    

The presentation was filmed by Greg Wolff of UsaMesa:

Greg Wolff of UsaMesa

Greg Wolff of UsaMesa spoke on their support of TiddlyWiki as a decentralized user empowering tool for social programs:

• http://blog.unamesa.org/
  
• They support open source developers furthering the social program goals of communities throughout the world
  
• He highlighted how tiddlywiki served as a frontend to wikispaces to help Hesperian, a traditional print publisher explore the web as a publishing medium: (http://disabledvillagechildren.projects.unamesa.org/) furthering their reach
  
• Jeremy recalled the initial email of 2005 of UnaMesa's offer of support. Be nice to developers and good things grow.
  
  

Phil Hawksworth demoing TeamTasks

http://www.hawksworx.com/journal/2007/10/29/teamtasks-version-03-released/

• Built on top of TiddlyWiki for task management simplicity
  
• Simple to understand but configurable and customizable.
  
• Applies templates to a tiddlers which the user can configure metadata from the extended fields to cluster tasks in many ways.
  
• Showed a real world team example with many tiddlers as tasks in a sortable table.
  

Paul Hammant with co-demoer Simon McManus

• http://www.paulhammant.com/ of thoughtworks
  
• Showed testing tool Selenium IDE http://selenium.openqa.org/ which can be used for testing websites
  
• SeleniumIDE can create source (ruby, php, python) from recording of actions (testing) on a TiddlyWiki file
  
• The wizardry I saw: Simon opened up SeleniumIDE atop a TiddlyWiki and set it to record.
  
• A new tiddler was made and Selenium IDE picked up these actions to a source file which could be configured to any language.
  
• Rerunning the source started up TiddlyWiki making a tiddler (the test bit)
  
• Paul noted that Selenium IDE would be a great boon to the professional QA folk. I got lost after the ~RSpec DSL stuff, but everything he said sounded impressive!
  

Paul Downey on TiddlyProcessing

http://blog.whatfettle.com/2008/05/11/tiddlyprocessing/

• John Resig brings processing to js
  
• Paul brings processing into TiddlyWiki. TiddlyProccessing = TiddlyWiki + processing
  
• He notes Simon Baird tweaked his plugin a bit.
  
• With a flourish, Paul dropped processing code from Resig's site for a petalling twirling animation and like magic it showed up undulating in the tiddler
  
• very neat way to marry imaging with TiddlyWiki
  

Jeremy Ruston demonstrating Zooming Interfaces

Jeremy showcased his incubating work on Zooming Interfaces (note this presentation has also been given in London, and a video can be shown here)

• It was a new way for users to view their TiddlyWiki with an Edward Tufte sort of viewpoint
  
• It lowers the barrier of entry for user interactions with accessibility of tiddler history in an intuitively visual way
  

Contact Juggling from Rich Shumaker

• He wowed us with rolls and spins and presented a good example of TiddlyWiki as a vehicle for asset management on a cd
  
• learning contact juggling is difficult to describe in words
  
• video can be set to tiddlers and TiddlyWiki is a framework to house multimedia.
  

Afterwards...

Phil Whitehouse wrote a blog post after the event, as well as uploading some photos to Flickr.

The great conversations continued in the Thirsty Bear down the street...