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Welcome to the BBF Wiki

The new BBF Wiki is a dynamic, interactive collaboration tool that brings the members a host of new functionality:

Click here for the long list of functions!

Top 20 functions (and this is not the entire list !!!!)

The BBF new Wiki is a dynamic, interactive collaboration tool that brings the members the ability for users to

Structure work areas and projects
Any member can create, edit and share, "like," follow pages, post and organize documents including Gliffy diagram tool
Import and export work in development to and from MS Word
Upload, label, organize reference and sort files and graphics with auto-numbering, (our add-on)
Build agendas, record minutes for calls including Quarterly meeting agendas
Build edit sortable tables, roadmaps, expand / contract text (like this text)
Create and manage calendar items for conference calls
Develop and share NPIFs (see template)
Conduct polls and surveys (and later) ballots
Link to existing posted content, insert external and internal links
Insert comments in documents (like MS Word), and add comments to ballots and work in progress
Discuss pages, follow and share topics
Create user lists per work area, set per pages, view and edit permissions, share pages with members, etc.
Insert html pages, insert and preview MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents, videos, etc
Create Blogs
Access presentations, member communications, event synopses create structured file lists, insert html, use around 50 built in macros
Create user generated on-line help
Public and members only content
Individual users or groups of users can create their own personal spaces for development of new ideas
Last but not least - currently in beta - all new collaborative editing (Is this an answer to Google docs?)

Navigation and Search: The wiki contents both an automated navigation a sophisticated search engine (which many will prefer as the fastest way to find content (e.g. type in TR-178 or WT-317 etc.)

Four new BBF web sites

There are 4 related web sites.

Confluence wiki (This site)
Bitbucket (Atlassian's variant on Github but with controls we required to manage IPR) code.broadband-forum.org
JIRA (workflow and support). issues.broadband-forum.org
The wiki will work in concert with the new BBF public site and content currently posted on as member pages on ARO with direct links from the public site to the members site. In due course editing of blogs and other content will be editable by members.

All four sites will have a common login so that once you are logged in to Confluence you will not have to login to information located in members areas of the public site, or BitBucket

About Confluence and Atlassian: Confluence is the most popular and frequently used Wiki Software with 75,000 + customers. We currently have licenses for 22 software functions and add-ons. there are literally hundreds of additional applications that are supported - mostly at a small additional cost. We will add balloting in due course

About the new public web site: This is based on Joomla, the popular open source Content Management System used by many large organizations and gives the kind of sophistacted access and functionality not available in Wordpress.

BBF Wiki FAQs

Click here for the top 10 BBF Wiki FAQs ... and then ask your own questions

Finding your way around the wiki ...

Navigation and Search: The wiki contents both an automated navigation a sophisticated search engine (which many will prefer as the fastest way to find content (e.g. type in TR-178 or WT-317 etc.)

The site can also be navigated from the expandable left hand navigation

Here's the top level navigation:

And the full navigation

Click to see full navigation

Getting started ... I want to try it out!!

Confluence has a comprehensive set of documentation ... Click here for the online Confluence Documentation Guide.

With Confluence it is easy to create, edit and share content with your team.
Choose a topic below to start learning how.