Cool Audio Drum Lessons

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Rick Ketter of DrumEssentials.com just told me about his friend Jim Reed who started a new drum lesson site with accompanying mp3 files for the different exercises. It looks quite good ! Try it out at DrumLessons.net !

XWiki 1.0 beta 5 released !

Yep !  This new release has some interesting improvements, like a better interface to the Event Calendar.  Check it out !

XWiki 1.0 Beta 4 Released !

The steady pace of XWiki beta releases continues with 1.0 Beta 4 thanks to Vincent Massol and the rest of the XWiki R&D team and contributors.  Get it while its hot !  Release notes here.

She’s Back !

I was glad to receive anina’s invitation to a new 360 Fashion event to be held in Paris on March 1st.  You can sign-up here on Marie’s cool and easy to use UneInvitation.com service.

I’ll definitely drop by anina !

KnowledgeWorks Education Future Watch

I would like to thank Emilie Ogez who is blogging on HEMISPHERES’ Savoirs en Réseau project for pointing out KnowledgeWorks Map of Future Forces Affecting Education.  It is an extensive resource with a very cool user interface that I have only just begun to go through, but I have already found a number of interesting topics which are relevant to our work at XWiki in general and to the CURRIKI project in particular which is at the intersection of a number of trends such as the Urban Learning Commons or Technologies of Cooperation.

Seth’s Powerpoint Tips

I love learning about giving good presentations and I always like what Seth Godin has to say, so I was glad to read his Really Bad Powerpoint post which is a combination of both.  I will try these out on my next presentation (have one coming up on the 13th at Le Préau thanks to Marc Van Coillie of Eife-L.org whom I met at the iLearning Forum Paris last week), especially the cue cards.  I think this is a great idea because it allows you to communicate without worrying about forgetting something, which is one of my problems.

XWiki 1.0 beta 3 released !

After a bit of delay due to a last minute show stopper XWiki 1.0 beta 3 was released today afternoon.  As usual it can be downloaded here.  Learn more by checking out the release notes.  This is mainly a bug fixing release stepping up to 1.0.

Cubadanza 2007 Festival on March 4th 2007

Cuba Sin Fronteras is organizing the second edition of the Cubadanza festival on March 4th 2007 (Hey that’s my sister’s birthday !) in Argenteuil which is a suburb on the west side of Paris. I was not able to attend last year, but I’m making a point of being there this year. Aniurka Balanzo is one of the professors for the Intermediate and Advanced students dancing Casino. She is a real good teacher that I know from the classes I take at Chatou with Antoine Joly and Anne-Laure Gamard. Antoine runs a web site on cuban culture, dance and music called Salsaloca. They are always a LOT of fun and I’m looking forward to class again this Sunday after a break for the holidays.

Open Source Valley Competitiveness Cluster

The Open Source Valley Competitiveness Cluster is forming here in the Paris area.  XWiki is one of the founding members.  We are on the college for commercial open source software companies.  You may find more information on their web site (powered by XWiki by the way !).

XWiki 1.0 beta 2 released

Yep the XWiki 1.0 team has been working hard again for the last two weeks in this release cycle and over the weekend to release XWiki 1.0 beta 2 which has its load of bug fixes and improvements going up to the 1.0 release. I’ve been trying out the new skin with the very cool panel system out on a collaborative website for the Wiki-Up project and things are looking very good. Keep up the good work ! You can learn more about XWiki and download a standalone installer to do a test drive at the XWiki.org site.

Update: Actually I anticipated the release by a couple of hours !  But it’s up now and here are the release notes.