About me

Hi, I am a wiki consultant situated in Hamburg, Germany. My main focus is on helping companies to manage their knowledge as well as the skills of their employees using web 2.0 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. As easy as it is to gather knowledge using wikis it does a bad job to manage it out of the box. That's why knowledge management tools on top of wikis make a lot of sense to help people to organize their information for reliable retrieval.

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 Plugins that are still available on TWiki.org are considered outdated.

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

Authored and maintained extensions.

Nr	Extension	Description	Classification	Version
1	AliasPlugin	Define aliases which will be replaced with arbitrary strings automatically	Interface and Visualisation, User interactivity	5540 (2009-11-17)
2	AutoTemplatePlugin	Automatically sets VIEW_TEMPLATE and EDIT_TEMPLATE	Interface and Visualisation	5797 (2009-12-16)
3	BibtexPlugin?
4	BlogPlugin?
5	BreadCrumbsPlugin	A flexible way to display breadcrumbs navigation	Information structuring and Search, Interface and Visualisation	4694 (2009-08-20)
6	DigestPlugin	Calculate message digest, i.e. MD5	Development	5541 (2009-11-17)
7	DBCachePlugin	Lightweight frontend to the DBCacheContrib	Data and Files, Development, Information structuring and Search	5536 (2009-11-17)
8	EditChapterPlugin	An easy section editing facility	Interface and Visualisation, User interactivity	6337 (2010-02-15)
9	EasyMacroPlugin		Development
10	FilterPlugin	Substitute and extract information from content by using regular expressions	Development	6294 (2010-02-12)
11	FlexFormPlugin		Development, Interface and Visualisation, User interactivity	6716 (2010-03-10)
12	FlexWebListPlugin	Flexible way to display hierarchical weblists	Development, Information structuring and Search	5698 (2009-12-02)
13	GenPDFPrincePlugin	'Generate PDF using Prince XML';	Exporting, Printing and Publishing	4700 (2009-08-20)
14	GenPDFWebkitPlugin	'Generate PDF using Webkit';	Exporting, Printing and Publishing	5547 (2009-11-17)
15	GluePlugin	Enable TopicMarkup to span multiple lines	Development	4420 (2009-07-03)
16	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)
17	IfDefinedPlugin	Render content conditionally	Development	4422 (2009-07-03)
18	ImagePlugin	Control the display and alignment of images using an easy syntax	Data and Files, Interface and Visualisation	6307 (2010-02-12)
19	ImageGalleryPlugin	Displays image gallery with auto-generated thumbnails from attachments.	Data and Files, Interface and Visualisation	4425 (2009-07-03)
20	JQueryPlugin	jQuery JavaScript library for Foswiki	Development, Interface and Visualisation	6601 (2010-03-01)
21	LdapContrib	LDAP services for Foswiki	Admin, Development	5565 (2009-11-17)
22	LdapNgPlugin	Query and display data from an LDAP directory	Admin, Development	5549 (2009-11-17)
23	MathModePlugin	Include LaTeX formatted math in a topic	Interface and Visualisation	4640 (2009-08-10)
24	MediaWikiTablePlugin	Format tables the MediaWiki way	Interface and Visualisation	2534 (2009-02-19)
25	MediaWikiToFoswikiContrib	MediaWiki 2 Foswiki Conversion Tool	Data and Files	2536 (2009-02-19)
26	MetaCommentPlugin	An easy to use comment system	Interface and Visualisation, User interactivity	6300 (2010-02-12)
27	NatEditPlugin	A Wikiwyg Editor	Interface and Visualisation, User interactivity	6285 (2010-02-12)
28	NatSkin		Interface and Visualisation	6288 (2010-02-12)
29	NatSkinPlugin		Interface and Visualisation
30	NewUserPlugin	Create a user topic if it does not exist yet	Admin, Data and Files	4919 (2009-09-14)
31	RedDotPlugin	Renders edit-links as little red dots	Interface and Visualisation	6303 (2010-02-12)
32	RenderPlugin	Render WikiApplications asynchronously	Development	4818 (2009-09-09)
33	PingBackPlugin?
34	RtfContrib	Extension to translate Foswiki markup to RTF	Exporting, Printing and Publishing	5566 (2009-11-17)
35	SolrPlugin		Information structuring and Search
36	SetVariablePlugin	Flexible handling of topic variables	Development	5575 (2009-11-18)
37	StringifierContrib	Helper library to stringify binary document formats	Development	5196 (2009-10-02)
38	TagCloudPlugin		Information structuring and Search, Interface and Visualisation
39	TimeSincePlugin	Display time difference in a human readable way	Interface and Visualisation	3647 (2009-04-23)
40	TopicNameValidationPlugin	Control naming of topics	Data and Files, Security	3646 (2009-04-23)
41	UserInfoPlugin	Render information about users on your wiki	Information structuring and Search, User interactivity
42	UploadPlugin	Attach multiple files to a topic in one go	Interface and Visualisation, User interactivity	4414 (2009-07-03)
43	VotePlugin	Simple way to count votes	User interactivity	5560 (2009-11-17)
44	XmlRpcContrib?
45	ZonePlugin	Gather content of a page in named zones while rendering it	Data and Files, Development	6437 (2010-02-19)

Active Proposals

Proposal	Status	Date of Commitment	Committed Developers	Concern Raised By	Last modified
Improve Page Load Time	UnderInvestigation	04 Feb 2010	MichaelDaum		10 Mar 2010
Clean Up New User Template	AcceptedProposal	25 Nov 2009	MichaelDaum		08 Dec 2009
Clean Up Web Preferences	AcceptedProposal	25 Nov 2009	MichaelDaum		19 Jan 2010
Deprecate After Attachment Save Handler	AcceptedProposal	16 Nov 2009	MichaelDaum		28 Dec 2009
Setting And Getting Variables Using Macros	AcceptedProposal	13 Nov 2009	MichaelDaum	CrawfordCurrie	28 Feb 2010
Move To JQuery	UnderConstruction	03 Dec 2007	MichaelDaum, ArthurClemens		26 Feb 2010
Foswiki Cache	AcceptedProposal	27 Feb 2007	MichaelDaum		01 Mar 2010

Proposals with concerns

Proposal	Status	Date of Commitment	Committed Developers	Concern Raised By	Last modified
Clean Up Topic Parentage	ParkedProposal	n/a		MichaelDaum	07 Mar 2010
Data Form Field Visible If Not Empty	UnderInvestigation	n/a	RaymondLutz	MichaelDaum	20 Feb 2010
Formally Support Multiple Extension Versions	ParkedProposal	n/a	GeorgeClark	MichaelDaum, KennethLavrsen	09 Mar 2010
Merge WYSIWYGEditors	UnderInvestigation	n/a		KennethLavrsen, AndrewJones, CrawfordCurrie, MichaelDaum	28 May 2009
Remove Hardcoded Css Class Names	ParkedProposal	n/a	StephaneLenclud	MichaelDaum, CrawfordCurrie, SvenDowideit	06 Mar 2010