Marc Laporte is an expert on Wikis, Online collaboration, and Open Source software.

He has been project admin for TikiWiki CMS/Groupware since 2003. Tiki is the Wiki Way applied to software development where over 200 people have contributed to the source code, making it one of the largest open source Web applications in the World. Tiki is used in tens of thousands of web sites/projects/communities/companies and has been picked by Firefox for their support site. The vast collaborative documentation effort is over 1000 pages, which is a testament to the scope of the project. Also, Tiki was selected as a mentoring organization for the 2009 Google Summer of Code.

Marc has implemented over 100 Wiki projects since 2001 and is active in the local Open Source scene in Québec. He maintains the technical aspects of the website of the local chapter of the Internet Society. He was a CoConvener of the recent International Conference on Wikis in Montreal (aka RoCoCo 2007) and the upcoming RoCoCo 2010 (cache). He is Symposium Committee member for WikiSym 2009 and 2010. Co-founder of wiki-translation.com, Marc was also invited to speak at a forum for IT specialists supporting multilingualism in international organizations and multinational bodies (JIAMCATT-2008 in Tunis, JIAMCATT-2009 in Ottawa) on the multilingual capabilities of Tiki as well.

Marc has been long involved in various social & political organizations, implementing a full range of online collaboration tools.

He lives in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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