WWWP2004

Join the Wiki WAN Party

Contribute a position or observation on the state of the practice in software architecture.

Comment on one of the themes of the IFIP WG 2.10 Software Architecture software architecture body of knowledge.

Contribute to the software architecture themes of WICSA 2004.

Create your own individual home page. You will need to log in and click on your ID to get to your home page.

Comment on a paper in a technical session.

Suggestions to improve the WICSA output.

Comment on the discussion or results of a working session:

• WS1 Evolving Architectures I
• WS2 Product lines
• WS3 Evolving Architectures II
• WS4 Components and viewpoints
• WS5 Real time systems

Results

Visualizing the Results of the Wiki WAN Party

Getting Oriented

Getting Started in the Party

Editing help

Call For Participation

Goals and Objectives

WICSA is a working conference and working sessions have long been a tradition at previous conferences. They have been used to collect examples of existing best practices; identify characteristics of existing methods and techniques; identify gaps in the state of the practice; and propose new techniques to fill those gaps. This year we add a new twist to this idea by using wiki software as a group communication mechanism that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wikipedia [1] is our model for on-line collaboration. The goal is to encourage ideas about software architecture to evolve as an ongoing discussion among members of the software architecture/WICSA community in the form of wiki entries.

Agenda

The "party" will occur throughout the conference and is organized into four segments:

1. Saturday morning, June 12, 9:00 - 12:30. Workshop Session: Kick Off
   • Introductions and position statements from the participants.
   • Discussion on the goals of workshop.
   • Visualizing the collaborative process with the history flow application (intended use)
   • Wiki walkthrough - philosophy, architecture, mini-tutorial
   • Capturing experience in software architecture best practices
2. Saturday afternoon, Jun 12 - Tuesday morning, June 15. Virtual Workshop
   WICSA attendees contribute new material and revise existing material on the wiki server.
3. Tuesday afternoon, June 15, 13:30-15:00. Working session: Wrap Up
   • Workshop wrap-up to reflect on the wiki experience.
   • Visualizing the collaborative process with the history flow application (results)
   • Summary of software architecture best practices
4. Tuesday afternoon, June 15, 15:30-16:30. Workshop summary.
   Plenary session to report on the wiki experience to the WICSA conference attendees.

Miscellaneous

Here is what wikipedia has to say about software architecture [2]. Now that you've had some experience using Wiki, you might consider contributing to that definition as well.

If you find the Wiki WAN Party useful or have suggestions for improvement, please send feedback to the organizers.