Marc Laporte is an expert on Wikis, Online collaboration, and Open Source software with over 10 years of Web experience.

He has been project admin for TikiWiki CMS/Groupware since 2003. TikiWiki is the Wiki Way applied to software development where over 170 people have contributed to the source code, making it one of the largest open source Web applications in the World. TikiWiki 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 960 printed pages, which is a testament to the scope of the project. TikiWiki was among a handful of community-driven free source projects to be named to the Seventh Annual EContent 100. The annual list contains the companies "that matter most in the digital content industry."

Marc is active in the local Open Source scene in Québec. He also helps out Île Sans Fil, a local group to promote Free WiFi access in Montréal, which now has over 130 deployed hotspots. 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) and implemented over 80 Wiki projects since 2001.

Part of a group of international experts, he attended The World Social Forum in Caracas, by invitation of the Venezuelan government, to present on collaboration software and to meet with local groups to exchange about how to use Free & Open Source software (FOSS). 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) on the multilingual capabilities of TikiWiki groupware as well as to hold a 1-day workshop. Follow-up includes assisting this group with a Wiki site and doing followup at the 2009 conference.

Marc was very actively involved for 7 years in a political party, implementing a full range of online collaboration tools.

He lives in Montréal, Québec, Canada with his cats, who wonder why he spends so much time on the computers.

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