Overview of early version of TiddlyGuv tool developed at Osmosoft by Michael Mahemoff, based on TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWeb stack.

1. TiddlyGuv: Open Source
Governance System
Michael Mahemoff,
Osmosoft

2. OSMOSOFT

3. “The open source innovation arm of BT”

4. A BT acquisition

5. Promoting open source, agile
development, and web standards

6. OSOT:
OPEN SOURCE OPERATIONS TEAM

7. • Promote
• Champion
• Support
• Govern

8. BT’S LANDSCAPE

9. Thousands of projects

10. • Internal
• Partners
• Global Services
• Open Source

11. • No open source
• Uses open source
• Modifies open source
• Releases/generates open source

12. TIDDLYGUV

13. “TiddlyGuv” : a code name!
Tiddly- :
the technology stack
-Guv:
governance

14. TiddlyGuv:
Non-Functional Requirements

15. Browser-based
-> Standards-compliant

16. An open-source product

17. Flexible
->Plugin mechanism

18. RESTful data access

19. Notifications and Subscriptions
-> Atom/RSS, Email

20. Potential for content sharing

21. TiddlyGuv:
Functional Requirements

22. Community Wiki

23. Drafting vs Publishing

24. Official policy vs General discussion

25. Tracking major software licenses

26. Tracking components

27. Tracking projects

28. Products
Product Catalogue
(hypothetical)
Components
Rails Sproutcore
PostgreSQL
Licenses
BSD MIT

29. Product
*
*
Component
*
*
License

30. Flagging vulnerabilities

31. Flexible rules-based vulnerabilities model

32. e.g. News feed – All products where a
component is GPL’d, but not released

33. Workflow support
Cuttlefish

34. DEMO - TiddlyGuv

35. • Community Wiki
• Licenses
•RESTful exposure (txt/html)

36. DEMO – TeamTasks Adaptation
(Transition tool)

37. • Spreadsheet migration

38. •Wiki
• Licenses portal
• Projects portal

39. TECHNOLOGIES

40. Client: TiddlyWiki

41. Single-Page Application (SPA)

42. Runs off file:// URI

43. “Tiddlers”: Microcontent
• Title
• Text
• Data
<div title=quot;Tiddlerquot; modifier=quot;Paul Downey”
created=quot;200811132220”
modified=quot;200811132225” changecount=quot;3quot;
tags=quot;paperquot;>
<pre>TiddlyWiki content is a collection of Micro
Content …</pre></div>

44. … in TiddlyGuv:
Tiddler for each license
Tiddler for each license
section, pointing back to license
Tiddler for each wiki entry
etc. ….

45. TiddlyWeb: Server-side persistence

46. RESTful

47. Exposes tiddlers, in “bags”

48. /bags/licenses/tiddlers/mit.html
/bags/policy/tiddlers/mit-policy.html
/bags/comments/tiddlers/comment5.html

49. Each bag has an access policy
e.g. licenses – ALL can edit

50. Content Negotiation

51. /bags/licenses/tiddlers/mit.html
/bags/licenses/tiddlers/mit.txt
/bags/licenses.rss

52. Shadow Tiddlers
Browser-Side Plugins
Server-Side Plugins
(e.g. LDAP)

53. Customisation by end-users
Customisation by organisations

54. Feedback welcome 